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Brian Griffin
Sliced Bread (Mother's Pride), 1986Vintage Gelatin Bromide PrintImage size: 34 x 34 cm plus frame
Signed on verso© Brian Griffin'My Dad was Horizontal Borer and worked in a factory all his life. Her retired in 1983 and was dead within eighteen months. All that machining, cast iron dust and..."My Dad was Horizontal Borer and worked in a factory all his life. Her retired in 1983 and was dead within eighteen months. All that machining, cast iron dust and factory life eventually killed him.
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As my Dad was dying I was working in the USA. His last message to me was, "Tell him not to come back to see me die, his work is more important." When I returned to the Black Country, Dad was just a pile of earth in Lye Cemetery.
After his death, when I was still mourning, I started to photograph men with sliced white bread on their backs. The bread was so synthetic and seemed to lack any nourishment; to me it was the most poisonous thing at that time.
My Dad had died through inhaling industrial pollutants (…)." - Brian Griffin, from 'The Black Kingdom. Photographs by Brian Griffin", 2013
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