{"product_id":"the-waiting-room","title":"The Waiting Room","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order now – Shipping starts November 19, 2026.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e is a selection of Sam Rock’s photographic exploration between 2010 and\u003cbr\u003e2025.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe work is a result of an isolated ten-day editing process, starting with 4,000 images and guided\u003cbr\u003eby an instinctive sense of flow. The resulting arrangement reflects how Rock has come to\u003cbr\u003eunderstand his photographic practice in the present, rather than what the work may have meant\u003cbr\u003eat the time it was made. The images are not organised chronologically, but brought into\u003cbr\u003econversation with one another, allowing connections and recurring ideas to emerge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccompanied by fragments of sentences from Rock’s notebooks, the book becomes a study of a\u003cbr\u003estate we all inhabit; waiting - for the next encounter, the next journey, the next opportunity, or\u003cbr\u003esimply for something to change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room\u003c\/em\u003e brings fifteen years of observation into focus as a study of the finite time we\u003cbr\u003ehave together. The photographs are evidence of time spent looking, attempting, failing, searching\u003cbr\u003eand trying to understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrinted at Manufacture d'Histoires Deux-Ponts, Bresson, France\u003cbr\u003eFirst Edition of 600 Copies\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paragraph","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57651335037268,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1086\/1314\/0820\/files\/Sam_Rock_TWR_cover.jpg?v=1794326730","url":"https:\/\/para-graph.fr\/products\/the-waiting-room","provider":"Paragraph","version":"1.0","type":"link"}