Pursuing his masters at the Royal College of Art, Nick Waplington had his first big break during a master class taught by Richard Avedon, in 1989. In a note sent after the class, Avedon said he was “impressed” and “moved” by the photographs Waplington had shown. It turns out they were part of an ongoing project of four years, in which Waplington took photos of working class families living in the Broxtowe housing estate in Nottingham, where his grandfather had lived for many years. Collected in 1991 in Waplington’s book Living Room, the images are sheer spontaneity, and capture in vivid color the “poetically chaotic” moments of domestic life. “Each picture [was] as dangerous and ecstatic as a Bruegel,” Avedon said of the series. “And as composed.” Here they are now, at Hamiltons. —Paulina Prosnitz