“In Umbra Res” (“in the shadow of it”), was released in 1990 and was the output of a Fellowship supported by the British National Museum of Photography in 1989 and 1990.

“In Umbra Res”, National Museum of Photography, 1990 © Paul Graham (pictures via: designforlife)

“In Umbra Res”, National Museum of Photography, 1990 © Paul Graham (pictures via: designforlife)

“In Umbra Res”, National Museum of Photography, 1990 © Paul Graham (pictures via: designforlife)

“”In Umbra Res” marks a turning point in Graham’s work, a watershed which the photographer himself identified in an interview from the mid-1990s: Photography is a medium with a unique and particular link to reality. Previously there was no problem about this, the world was out there, and you simply had to put your camera over your shoulder and go out with an open heart and head to observe this reality. This was the ‘old consciousness’ if you like. The problem is that over the past two decades our perception of reality has changed from something ‘out there’ to something ‘within us’, a blend of external, internal, past and present stimuli, personal and collective beliefs, mediated and original ideas… Troubled Land was the last group of photographs by Graham that dealt exclusively with the veneer of the visible world. With In Umbra Res, and the New Europe book to which it gave rise, the photographer argued for a more holistic, psychologically charged version of reality - fragmentary certainly, but one that takes account of everything we carry with us as intellectual and emotional beings….” - Paul Bonaventura (from Paul Graham: The Troubles by Paul Bonaventura)

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