His back is covered in scars and tattoos, his desolate room is littered with empty bottles of whiskey, his hair is perfectly tousled even though he barely takes care of himself.
Beyond Caring remains Graham's best-known series; laminated versions of these photographs were toured by the old Greater London Council to TUC conferences in order to lobby MPs for better conditions in these desolate waiting rooms and interview booths.
Jim sneers at Bob for his "graduate dorm" living, but Bob's own feelings are poised between relief at the anonymity of apartment dwelling and an existential dread when his squabbling downstairs neighbors move out and he catches sight of their desolate, empty rooms.
The chamber was arranged to look like a desolate hospital room, with grimy walls and a small bed draped in dirty white sheets.
Sharon Lockhart's video of children at play in a grim courtyard in Łódz, Poland, and the desolate grey room of scant documentation that accompanies it at FACT, is dispiriting, and like the Whistler show has an air of self-regard, but in a pared-down and preachy modern manner.
These survivor-witnesses, who were arrested on different charges, alternately walk through the building's desolate halls and rooms, movingly relate their stories on camera and stare silently into space, sometimes while their voice-overs continue.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J., Sept. 17 — Eli Manning was surrounded in an otherwise desolate Giants locker room Monday.
Hunter trudged off the pitch looking utterly dejected, and there were more tears from several other players in a desolate England dressing room afterwards.
"We find ourselves wandering through debris-filled rooms, entering desolate cells, even being pursued down darkened corridors by a masked man clutching a chain saw," he says.
Coming out of the film, we find ourselves wandering through debris-filled rooms, entering desolate cells, even being pursued down darkened corridors by a masked man clutching a chain-saw.
