#20 STORIES ON YOUR DOORSTEP

Jim Grover, from London keeps a keen ear to the ground when it comes to making photo stories about his community from which he then shows within self-initiated exhibitions, which he also has some advice about in today’s episode. He moots that his photographic life mission is ‘to make the unseen seen.’

He’s passionate about peoples’ everyday lives and fascinated by the communities local to him in south London, in particular stories which he feels haven’t been told before. His study of the Windrush Generation within a walk of his own home revealed characters and stories he wasn’t expecting and the resulting exhibition remains at the time of writing the Oxo Tower’s most attended event.

Also today, a photowalk with former army photographer and good friend Giles Penfound uncovers how shooting local can make the perfect gentle photo project, with or sans people in frame.

And you’re invited to send in those ‘photography hacks’ you’ve discovered across the year to make your life behind the lens easier. Send them to studio@photographydaily.show

All pictures copyright Jim Grover, not to be used without permission

FURTHER REFERENCE

Jim Grover’s main website

An introduction to documentary photography, Leica Academy webinar

Giles Penfound ‘My conflict’ edition on Photography Daily

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