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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
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    Brian Griffin - Work and Other Stories, MMX Gallery, London 2019

    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979

    MMX Gallery, 2019

    Brian Griffin

    Rocket Man, Dungeness, Kent, 1979
    Archival Pigment Print
    Image size: 30.5 x 20 cm
    Framed
    © Brian Griffin

    Further images

    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 6 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    • (View a larger image of thumbnail 7 ) Brian Griffin, Eldon Guller meets Bamber of Coutts Bank, Strand, London, 1986
    “It was shot on a grey misty day on Dungeness Beach in Sussex. Charlie Wood lit the sky rocket and stood to attention, and I fired the flashgun that was...
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    “It was shot on a grey misty day on Dungeness Beach in Sussex. Charlie Wood lit the sky rocket and stood to attention, and I fired the flashgun that was stuffed into his trousers to give the illusion of an explosion. The cable to the flashgun was hidden under the pebbles. (...)
    I did get to use the sky rocket shot many years later. Howard Jones saw it and used it for the cover of his
    Cross that Line album ten years later...”

     

    Other side of the story and the picture is:

    While working for British Steel, Griffin was involved with the construction of nuclear power stations. He later became a staunch believer in the campaign for nuclear disarmament and this photograph - taken on the beach adjacent to Dungeness Nuclear Power Station - conveyed his regret at the part he had once played in the nuclear game.

     

    BRIAN GRIFFIN - ARTIST PAGE
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