Acclaimed photographer Ken Grant will reflect on the work of Chris Killip and on the role of documentary photography today.
Ken Grant was born in Liverpool in 1967. Since the 1980's he has photographed in the city and engaged in sustained projects both in the region, in Wales, and in wider Europe. He works on long term engagements with his contemporaries which eventually become books and exhibitions. His photographs are held in major collections, including those at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Folkwang Museum, Essen, the James Hyman collection of British Photography and other international public and private collections.
He continues to exhibit internationally, including at Counter Space (MoMA, New York, 2011), Home Sweet Home (Arles, 2019), and Fotografia Europea (Reggio Emilia, 2022). A first monograph of the Liverpool photographs, The Close Season, was published in 2002 with No pain whatsoever following in 2014. Other monographs include A Topical Times for These Times (2016) and Benny Profane (2019). His work made in Wales over three decades was published as Cwm: The Fair Country in 2025. Ken was editor for the recent book on the life and work of Chris Killip (Thames & Hudson, 2022), along with his wife, Tracy Marshall-Grant and together they curated the recent career retrospective of Killip’s work which toured internationally.
His career as a teacher has included a decade leading the Documentary Photography programme in Newport, South Wales and he has supported the development of photography education through galleries in the UK and Ireland, notably as a board member at Open Eye Gallery Liverpool, at Belfast Exposed, Belfast and the Gallery of Photography (now Photo Museum Ireland), Dublin. He is currently co-course director of the MFA Photography programme at Belfast School of Art / Ulster University in Belfast.
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