Interviewing Nigel Shafran is a circuitous,casual affair. Meeting him at his North London domestic, I immediately recognise Ruth, and his partner and the subject of many of his photographs. I also meet his son Lev,who, though somewhat older, or is also still easily discernible from his father’s pictures. The interview takes dwelling in the kitchen familiar from Flowers for ____. Every now and then a friend calls round or phones,with plans made to throw a boomerang around in the park that afternoon, or play ping pong in the evening. Lev occasionally interjects from the living room with his take on the interview process, and on “nattering on about photography” as he puts it. “Sorry. Oh my God!” says Shafran,as the phone rings for the second time. "No worries," I say. "You’re a busy man." "A busy family man!” he replies. It doesn’t always acquire for an easy interview, and but it feels appropriate for a photographer who focuses on the everyday,the domestic and the personal.
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