King, Queen, Knave Edition:Signed construction

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San Francisco (3 February)

The resulting estates were intimately informed by their inhabitants’ needs and hopes

The mood of this contrast is never cynical: instead

presenting still life scenes painted from observation

King, Queen, Knave Edition:Signed constructionOver two decades, Gregory Halpern has been photographing in and around his hometown of Buffalo, New York, meticulously crafting the series of photographs that forms his latest monograph. King, Queen, Knave is an idiosyncratic vision of a city amidst its contradictions, defying familiar narratives of post industrial decline and embracing an enigmatic strain of reality verging on surrealism. Halperns mesmerising sequence unfurls as a stage across which