PAUL GRAHAM: "Sliding Sight, Setting Suns" (2008)
"Paul Graham’s route-less journeys around America that had begun back in the summer of 2004, went on during 2005 and for most of 2006. He continued driving, to and from places, visiting and not visiting; the locations, towns and cities becoming less and less relevant and more and more representative. He would drive, and stop, and walk, sometimes for a few minutes, at other times for hours, maintaining an unstructured and intuitive itinerary, and photographing all the while, keeping restraint in mind, never dwelling too long on any one subject or being drawn too far beyond that initial point of fascination."



PAUL GRAHAM: "Photography is Easy, Photography is Difficult" (2009)
"It’s so difficult because it’s everywhere, every place, all the time, even right now. It's the view of this pen in my hand as I write this, it's an image of your hands holding this book, Drift your consciousness up and out of this text and see: it's right there, across the room - there... and there. Then it’s gone. You didn’t photograph it, because you didn’t think it was worth it. And now it’s too late, that moment has evaporated. But another one has arrived, instantly. Now. Because life is flowing through and around us, rushing onwards and onwards, in every direction."



PAUL GRAHAM: "The Unreasonable Apple" (2010)
"So, what is it we are discussing here - how do we describe the nature of this photographic creativity? My modest skills are insufficient for such things. However let me make an opening offer: perhaps we can agree that through force of vision these artists strive to pierce the opaque threshold of the now, to express something of the thus and so of life at the point they recognised it. They struggle through photography to define these moments and bring them forward in time to us, to the here and now, so that with the clarity of hindsight, we may glimpse something of what it was they perceived."



INTERVIEW: "Paul Graham with Richard Woodward" (2007)
PG: "Yes, in terms of making them, it was a process of letting go of one’s own pretensions and not looking for this great summation picture of any given situation. For example, while photographing a man smoking at a bus stop in Vegas, I just had to slow down, take a step back, and realize that the moment before and the moment after are just as valuable as the instant when he takes the perfect drag on the cigarette."



BOOKS: Paul Graham

* Paul Graham (2009)
* A Shimmer of Possibility (2009)
* American Night (2003)
* End of an Age (1999)
* Empty Heaven: Photographs from Japan 1989-1995 (1995)
* A1: The Great North Road (1983)


Around the WEB: Paul Graham

* Paul Graham Archive
* Wikipedia: Paul Graham
* MOMA: Shimmer of Possibility
* Steidl: Paul Graham
* PS1: American Night
* NY Times: A Shimmer of Possibility
* Artnet: Paul Graham

















































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