Nigel Shafran - DoBeDo

Nigel Shafran is a photographer. He first became known for radicalizing fashion photography in the 1980s.

Currently, he focuses on the everyday: objects and environments drawn both from his personal domestic space as well as mundane public spaces.

Shafran photographs subjects from his personal life, from his wife Ruth and his fathers office to the washing up, bookshelves and suburban garages. simultaneously his photographs go beyond the personal and also reflect contemporary society, capturing a socio-historic moment in time. This is shown particularly through his pictures of todays supermarkets and abandoned charity shops.

He has been featured in exhibitions like the Tate Britain’s: 'How we are: Photographing Britain' in 2007. And he has also exhibited in other London haunts like the Photographer’s Gallery, the Frieze Art Fair, Geffrey Museum, Saatchi Gallery and (regularly) the V&A Museum.

Featured in the book 'The Photograph as Contemporary Art' (Thames & Hudson) his eye is described as 'highly intuitive'.
And his photographic style ‘understated’:

'Shafran's use of ambient light and relatively long exposures, transforms these scenes into poetic observations about the way we conduct our live through our unconscious acts of ordering, stacking and displaying objects.’

Shafras most recent publication 'Flowers for ___' documents his wife Ruth, but with a new addition, his son, within the home.

'Flowers for__' can be purchased here on DoBeDo.

LINKS
www.nigelshafran.com