Collected in a precious tiny volume published by MACK, Paul Graham’s latest series of photographs Does Yellow Run Forever? brings into question what we seek and value in life – love, wealth, happiness, beauty – therefore following the author’s ceaseless research on the ephemeral and quotidian in our lives.

Three distinct groups of images – rainbows on Western Ireland, a woman asleep in anonymous ever-changing hotel rooms, the facades of gold stores in New York – alternate through the golden-finished pages, shaping an imagery that continuously leads the viewer from a feel of reality to one of illusion.

In a dreamy, suspended atmosphere, Graham wanders silently and thoughtfully, in search of his personal pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. When the truth is unveiled, a love statement is pronounced: the photographer’s sleeping beloved, peacefully suspended in time and space, is the only true fortune.

Does Yellow Run Forever? consists of a series of large-scale photographs taken between 2011 and 2014, recently displayed in a solo exhibition at Pace Gallery, New York.

Images © Paul Graham, courtesy MACK

Paul Graham, Does Yellow Run Forever? 
80 pp., €35.00 
MACK, 2014