Oliver Frank Chanarin travelled with his analogue camera through cultural hinterlands of Britain and there is a deficit of wellness in the salvage he photographs. His partnership with Adam Broomberg had come to an end after two decades of working together on conceptual projects like War Primer 2 and in A Perfect Sentence, his first solo monograph, he finds the terrain of documentary photography difficult to traverse after a long absence: ‘I wasn’t sure how to be a photographer anymore; how to take pictures in this new paradigm; how to approach people in the street, in their homes, in their communities; and what is a reasonable expectation of privacy.’
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