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Shafran's work has been exhibited worldwide and is held in a number of art collections  including Nottingham Castle Art Gallery and Museum and the Arts Council Collection.  Shafran's work captures the intimacy and mundanity of everyday subjects by  developing a narrative through the careful sequencing of images. His photographs are  quietly attentive, seeking out the evocative spaces between the obvious and the  conventionally illustrative.  \r\n\r\nShafran has a close relationship with the V&A and used the Museum as the subject for a  series of photographs taken in 1999.  This new body of work, taken fifteen years later,  complements the existing images and visually charts the development of the museum  over this period. Moreover, the series has historical significance as it provides an  interesting contrast to earlier 19th century representations of the South Kensington  Museum that are held in the collection. \r\n\r\nShafran was commissioned by the museum to take a series of photographs for the  V&A’s Annual Report 2013/14. The photographs offer an alternative view of the museum  building, its staff and visitors. The photographs are a combination of the familiar and the  unfamiliar. The photographs record everyday scenes that offer an honest and  recognisable narrative; from a tray of used crockery on an empty table in the museum  café to a group of schoolchildren on an educational visit. Shafran’s photographs offer a  glimpse into the many roles adopted by the museum and provide a candid representation  of museum life, one that provides an interesting contrast to earlier representations  carried out by museum photographers including Charles Thurston Thompson and Isabel  Cowper. \t ","physicalDescription":"Photograph from the series 'Ten photographs taken for the V&A Annual Report 2012/13'. 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Navigating between the galleries, study rooms, service areas, offices and stores of the Museum he developed an archaeology of the building showing the traces of its use. Whether made in public spaces or behind the scenes, his quietly attentive photographs unveil the sculptural qualities of the everyday, and offer a candid representation of the Museum’s working life. \r\n \r\nDigital inkjet prints\r\nPurchased through the Cecil Beaton Royalties Fund \r\nV&A Museum nos. E.7 to 10-2015; E.12 to 14-2015\r\n","date":{"text":"28-04-2015","earliest":"2015-01-01","latest":"2104-12-31"}}],"partNumbers":["E.32-2015"],"accessionNumberNum":"32","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2015,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2015-02-16","availableToBook":false}}