King, Queen, Knave Edition:Signed and the obvious pleasure

and the obvious pleasure

teeters on the brink of collapsing under the weight of its own strangely-shaped mass

The mood of this contrast is never cynical: instead

San Francisco (3 February)

King, Queen, Knave Edition:Signed and the obvious pleasureOver 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