On the scene: Paul Graham's portfolio - in pictures

Bus Converted to Café, Lay-by, West Yorkshire, November 1982
from the series A1 - The Great North Road, one of three colour books Graham made in the 80s (including Beyond Caring, 1986, and Troubled Land, 1987) that were highly controversial at the time but are now much sought after by collectors
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Woman at Bus Stop, Mill Hill, North London, November 1982
from A1 - The Great North Road
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Looking back on the city, Highbury, North London, March 1982
from A1 - The Great North Road
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Baby, DHSS Office, Birmingham, 1984 from the reportage series Beyond Caring taken undercover in British dole offices. 'A photography tutor described [this book] as "poisonous"', says Paul Graham. 'I think [by that] he meant [I didn't use] a Leica and shoot in black and white'
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Woman in Headscarf, DHSS Waiting Room, 1984 Bristol
from Beyond Caring
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Man Reading Paper, Bloomsbury DHSS, Central London, 1985 from Beyond Caring
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Roundabout, Andersonstown, Belfast, 1984 from the series Troubled Land which highlighted the strange, normalised reality of the conflicted country
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Unionist Posters on Tree, County Tyrone, 1985 from Troubled Land Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled, Belfast, 1988 (woman smoking cigarette) from the series New Europe
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled, 1989 (shoppers) from New Europe
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled, 1989 (ship jigsaw) from New Europe
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Girl with White Face, Tokyo, 1992 from the series Empty Heaven
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled #43 from the series End of an Age, 1996
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled #2 from End of an Age, 1997
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled 2002 (California) #30 from the series American Night, which juxtaposes colour-saturated images of houses in affluent suburbs with often shadowy images of black people on America's streets
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Untitled 2002 (California) #7 from American Night
Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

New Orleans, 2005 (Cajun Corner) from Graham's most recent series a shimmer of possibility. Graham has said this project, for which he travelled around America, was inspired by the ambiguous nature of Anton Chekhov's short stories Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Pittsburgh, 2004 (Lawnmower Man) from a shimmer of possibility Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery

Texas, 2005 (Pepsi Walkers) from a shimmer of possibility Photograph: Paul Graham/Anthony Reynolds Gallery