Double Dactyl accompanies a solo exhibition of the same name at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.One of Britain s leading contemporary photographers, Waplington is known for photographing British social scenery and his life and close circle of friends and family in East London, where he lives and works. In Double Dactyl he goes one stage further, referencing the grand traditions of history painting, classical mythology and landscape photography.This new work also explores notions of photographic reality, by working withconstructed and manipulated images taken from his own large format photographs. The title Double Dactyl is derived from the Greek word meaning finger, but also meaning a name of two words which have three syllables each, as in Nich-o-las Wap-ling-ton. Double Dactyl features 56 colour reproductions of this new body of work, its surreal and often subtle use of manipulation confirming Waplington’s idiosyncratic approach to contemporary photographic practice.