New book published

Daniel Rapley's first artist book launches, published by Beam Editions, with commissioned essays by Duncan Wooldridge, Nicholas Royle, Ashley Gallant and Jonathan Casciani. Copies of this extraordinary work are available, email info@coreset.org.

Rapley produced a body of photographic artworks, entititled Drift, over 5-years, against the backdrop of his late 104-year old grandmother’s slow decline with dementia and his own dyslexia-related struggles in processing and retaining information. These works reflect on the short-lived and malleable nature of memory, as well as how photography can both reinforce and distort our memories.

Rapley compresses and entangles time, place and memory into a single visual plane; original photographs vie for dominance in the new images he creates. New hallucinogenic and disorientating images emerge, reflecting the illusory nature of memory.

Rapley's fascination with the strange material condition of transparency in photographic media, delivers a profound and unique book.