Nick Waplington - Double Dactyl

I have looked at other projects by Nick Waplington throughout this research project so I went back to the library to have another look to see what else he had done and stumbled upon this book 'Double Dactyl'. This collection of photographs shows a different side to the project I looked at before due to the fact that only about a third of the photographs feature people in. The images are described in the book as conveying 'a sense of barren desolation, a bleakness made up of washed out colours, forlorn exteriors and empty landscapes mostly taken from the middle distance.' I found myself drawn to these images because even though many of them were dealing with the benign and regularity of things we see all around us they are still captivating and interesting. There are also the themes of community and working class that he is looking at, which link well to my work and I think they are portrayed perfectly by the last photograph above of Bethnal Green Road, which depicts a cross section of a London community.