Brian Griffin: Black Country Dada (signed)

I have written my autobiography ... yes, I have written it myself! A hardback book of over 200 pages, with an insightful  introduction by W. M. Hunt. It tells truthfully what it  was like to survive and make ones way as a photographer in Britain back then. I tell the story through my personal experience of those tough times.

Those were those analogue days! Growing up amongst the factories of the Black Country, studying photography in Manchester alongside my friends Daniel Meadows and Martin Parr, and then filled with trepidation going down to London to make a living as a photographer in the early 1970’s. 

In popular recollection, the 1970’s have gone down as the dark ages, Britain’s gloomiest period since the second world war, set between Harold Wilson’s ‘swinging sixties’ and Margaret Thatcher’s divisive eighties. What was it like to be a young photographer then?

By the end of the 1980’s my photography was known throughout the world. How did I do it? What did I go through? It's all in this book that tells the story warts and all. 

 

Title: Black Country Dada
Publisher: Self Published, 2021
Author: Brian Griffin, foreword by W. M. Hunt
Photographer: Brian Griffin
Edit & Graphic Design: Cafeteria
Format: Hardcover
Size: 25.5 x 20 cm
ISBN: 9781527280250