Recognised as one of the UK's most important photographers of the
last forty years, Brian Griffin grew up near Birmingham amongst the
factories of the Black Country. His parents were factory workers
and from birth Griffin seemed set to follow in their footsteps. And
so, on leaving school at the age 16, he began working in a factory,
just like everyone else around him. A year later he moved to
British Steel working as a trainee pipework engineering estimator
in a job that involved costing systems for the nuclear power
stations that were then being built. He remained there four years
before escaping the tedium of the office by enrolling to study
photography at Manchester College of Art. Griffin has exhibited and
published widely. In 1989 he had a one-man show at the National
Portrait Gallery, London. The same year The Guardian newspaper
selected him as 'The Photographer of the Decade' and LIFE magazine
used his photograph 'A Broken Frame' as the covershot for their
feature 'Greatest Photographs of the Eighties'. During the 1990s
Brian Griffin retired from photography and focused on directing
advertising, pop videos and short films. He returned to photography
in 2001, reestablishing himself once again at the pinacle of
British Photography.
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