#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