Sommat / You should be with us / Horn Again: Unseen McQueen

Sommat: London/NYC 2020 – 2021
You should be with us: LA 1995 – 1996
Horn Again: Unseen Mcqueen

3 saddle stitched oversized zines of unpublished photographs across 3 decades of work

Sommat Loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s novel of colonial misadventure, Heart of Darkness, which was set in the 19th century Congo, Waplington’s final zine of this trilogy takes us on a meandering adventure through the hinterland of New York before finishing up on the Thames estuary where Conrad’s novel begins.

You Should Be with Us, Los Angeles 1995/6 A decade after finishing his iconic Surf Riot work, Nick Waplington returned to live in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. Deciding to take a break from his long-term projects, he instead photographed his own life, documenting the city from the perspective of a young person looking for fun on the margins of society. 

Horn Again: Unseen McQueen: In 2008, the acclaimed British fashion designer Alexander McQueen commissioned his friend, the artist Nick Waplington, to document his creative process at close range. Over the next year, Waplington worked with McQueen as he developed his retrospective couture collection, "Horn of Plenty,” from concept to catwalk.