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Brian Griffin: Work and other stories
7 June - 3 August 2019

Brian Griffin: Work and other stories

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Brian Griffin, Ballroom Dancer Competitor, 1972

Brian Griffin

Ballroom Dancer Competitor, 1972
Vintage Silver Gelatin Print, printed later
Image size: 34.5 x 22.5 cm, white border
Personal Artist's Archive; From the Photographer's Portfolio
Series: Blackpool Ballroom Championships
Sign and dated in pencil on verso
© Brian Griffin
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'I studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1969 until 1972. After leaving I came to London to develop a career as a freelance photographer where I met Roland Schenk the...
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"I studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1969 until 1972.

After leaving I came to London to develop a career as a freelance photographer where I met Roland Schenk the art director of the magazine Management Today.  Seeing my ballroom dancing photographs in my college portfolio he immediately offered me my first commission.

So from these photographs my career in photography began." - Brian Griffin

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