Three years later he published another book, Dad's Office, a set of rather bleak photographs taken between 1996 and 1998, of the contents of the abandoned rooms from which his father had once worked.
The business association has its own set of bleak statistics, among them the fact that Connecticut has the highest energy prices in the country.
"A few years ago I set a setting of 'In The Bleak Midwinter', because I had written a tune and found that those words fitted it.
Kaplan was tasked with designing a set that was "bleak, but not too bleak decrepit, but not too decrepit," and "deserted, but not too deserted".
He cites a Heritage Lottery Fund report from 2014, which produced a bleak set of figures.
"They really are faced with a bleak set of alternatives," Mr. Mann said.
That may well be the IASB's aim.On November 26th, Japan's life insurers posted a bleak set of interim reports.
On February 24th, WPP, the world's biggest advertising group, unveiled a bleak set of results for 2002, with profits down by 19% on the year before.
But shortly before 6pm on day two, they had all gone, once again begging the age-old question: "What is wrong with British tennis?" Steve Martens, the LTA's player director, was the man co-opted to try to emphasise the positives from a bleak set of results.
When we asked Freda what it was like to work with such a bleak set of statistics she told us this: "It was pretty heavy, even for someone like myself who draws dark and creepy things all the time.
