Colour by Niall McDiarmid

(2026)

First edition.

Medium format softcover in new condition.

128 pages

Signed by Niall McDiarmid to the inside title page

About

Modern life is losing its colour. Photographer Niall McDiarmid’s work is a joyful antidote against greyscale tones predominant across architecture, interiors, fashion and cars. For over 15 years the photographer has traversed the UK, documenting the inherent colour of life as he finds it.

The photographs in McDiarmid’s new book were shot predominantly in London. His images offer an alternative vision to the monotones of contemporary life: warm, diverse and playful, a vivid celebration of the people and places that still bring colour and individuality to Britain. His subjects' clothing paired with the shades of the urban environment around them, finding harmony where tones echo one another and vitality where they clash. He shows the streets and shopfronts, cafes and pubs, train stations and interiors, finding a richness of colour where others might only see the mundane.

McDiarmid's mastery of colour harmony is at the heart of his practice. He exploits the natural flat light of a typically overcast British day, conditions that soften shadows and allow the colours of clothing, signage, and architecture to fully breathe. The result is a body of work that is at once a document and a celebration: of human individuality and the joyful colour that persists in everyday British life.