Toshio Shibata – Boundary Hunt _alt_David Luraschi – Ensemble Nigel Shafran’s new book takes

Nigel Shafran’s new book takes five interconnected series of photographs and weaves them together with the common thread of domestic scenes

this space has served as a place for unexpected creativity

and things casually tangle up into beautifully baffling configurations

Philippe Wehrlé

The images in colour

Toshio Shibata – Boundary Hunt _alt_David Luraschi – Ensemble Nigel Shafran’s new book takesBoundary Hunt, by Japanese photographer Toshio Shibata, is a series made in Japan and the United States between 2000 and 2004, a period during which the artist was experimenting with new techniques and shifting his practice towards colour photography after two decades of working in black and white. For Boundary Hunt, Shibata used Polaroids Type55, a black and white positive film with a recoverable negative that allows the image to be enlarged. From