You set offset
param, so paged
param is ignored 😉
From Codex:
offset (int) – number of post to displace or pass over. Warning: Setting the offset parameter overrides/ignores the paged
If you want to ignore most recent post in this query, you can achieve it in two ways.
1. Custom pagination.
$ppp = get_option('posts_per_page'); // or any other method to get your posts_per_page
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
'offset' => 1 + ( $paged * $ppp ),
'cat' => -22,
'paged'=>$paged
);
2. Ignore first post
$most_recent_post_id = ...; // get the ID of most recent post
$paged = get_query_var( 'paged' ) ? get_query_var( 'paged' ) : 1;
$args = array(
'post__not_in' => array($most_recent_post_id),
'cat' => -22,
'paged'=>$paged
);