Before developing into a photographer generally specialising in constructed images, Griffin was primarily a photo journalist. With this in mind this exhibition features some of his street photography executed during the first 2 years after leaving art college in 1972.

Artist Bio

Brian Griffin is one of the world’s leading photographers, with a unique vision that has taken him on a visual odyssey.

Born in Birmingham and having studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic School of Photography, Brian Griffin has had a profound effect on the medium in the last 30 years. Described by the British Journal of Photography as “the most unpredictable and influential British portrait photographer of the last three decades” .

In 2009 Brian Griffin’s work was presented in a major exhibition at the Arles Photography Festival.  The exhibition included work from two major commissions, firstly “Team Photo”: the High Speed Channel Tunnel rail link and the construction of St Pancras station, plus the mythical journey to meet the “ Water People”, commissioned by Reykjavik Energy, Iceland.

This was followed in 2010 by an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery of the “The Road to 2012”  a major  photographic commission about the 2012 London Olympics. Later in 2010 in Birmingham a large retrospective of his work was shown at three venues in the city centre, with the year  finishing with a commission to photograph “The Black Country” that was shown at the College des Bernardins during the Mois de la Photo in Paris, which returns to the UK to be shown this year at the New Art Gallery Walsall .

For 2011 he has been commissioned to produce a major exhibition to  launch Marseille – Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture.

Brian has self-published eight books of his works, and his photographs can be found in the Arts Council Collection and in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Reykjavik Art Museum, Birmingham Central Library and the National Portrait Gallery.

Brian Griffin is the patron of the FORMAT International Photography Festival

For further information on Brian Griffin please see www.briangriffin.com