Ken Grant b. 1967
Ken Grant was born in Liverpool in 1967. At 12, Grant purchased his first camera, a little polaroid, which he took along when he went to work with his father, a carpenter with a workshop on the River Mersey. At his father's workshop, Grant photograph the labourers - trade's men, carpenters and machinists- as they waited for employment in Liverpool's transient industry. Although at the time he was unaware of the economic circumstances, Liverpool's turbulent economy became the underlying thread tracing through Grant's career. In 1984, Grant's father insisted that he continue his education, so as not to be vulnerable in the declining industry accelerated by Thatcher's economic policy. Grant undertook a two year technical course in photography, alongside many unemployed labourers from the shipyards who had lost their livelihood. After completing his course, Grant enrolled at Farnham in Surrey, one of the first fine art photography courses in the United Kingdom. At Farnham, Grant trained and studied with the most innovative photographers and academics in Britain including Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Yve Lomax. Farnham, unlike many Fine Art Institutions, did not have a guiding philosophy. Even though many photographers began experimenting with colour photography for a fine art context, Grant continued to photograph almost exclusively in black and white in his characteristic square format creating timeless, poetic images that feel autobiographic, but also explore the greater intervening political forces shaping contemporary Britain. Since the 1980s he has photographed his contemporaries in the city and engaged in sustained projects both in the UK and Europe. A monograph of the Liverpool pictures, The Close Season, was published by Dewi Lewis Publishing in 2002. Later in Spring 2014, Grant published a second monograph entitled No Pain Whatsoever. Ken Grant's photographs are held in important collections of photography, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Folkwang Museum Essen and other international public and private collections.
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Ken GrantFootball on Sunday morning, Stanley Park, AnfieldGelatin Silver Print40.64 x 50.8 cms£ 900.00
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Ken GrantHarry and Family, Ullswater Street, EvertonVintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantLast Ferry of the DayPigment print120 x 100 cms£ 3,360.00
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Ken GrantLeasowe sheltering from the wind, North End, BirkenheadVintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantMan resting at street festival, LiverpoolVintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantMother and Child, Moreton ShorePigment print38.1 x 38.1 cms£ 1,000.00 +VAT
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Ken GrantNo Pain WhatsoeverPigment print38.1 x 38.1 cms£ 1,000.00 +VAT
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Ken GrantSinking ship at 4 Bridges, BirkenheadVintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantTommy Haygarth and Man with a Face Brace, Birkenhead 1996Pigment print38.1 x 38.1 cms£ 1,000.00 +VAT
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Ken GrantUntitled (Burning up, Bidston, Birkenhead)Pigment print38.1 x 38.1 cms£ 1,020.00
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Ken GrantUntitled (Burning up, Bidston, Birkenhead)Pigment print101.6 x 101.6 cms£ 3,360.00
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Ken GrantUntitled (Lake Street, looking towards Vienna Street)Pigment print100 x 100 cms£ 2,500.00
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print40.64 x 55.88 cms£ 950.00
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print40.64 x 55.88 cms£ 950.00
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print40.64 x 55.88 cms£ 950.00
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print80 x 104 cms
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print32 x 49 cms
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print76.2 x 101.6 cms£ 3,000.00
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Ken GrantUntitled, from the series 'Flock'Pigment print76.2 x 101.6 cms£ 3,000.00
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Ken GrantYoung parents and child in ropes on Mersey ferryVintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantFoghorn Bar, Southport, Merseyside, 1988Vintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Ken GrantFoghorn Bar, Southport, Merseyside, 1988Gelatin Silver Print50.8 x 60.96 cms£ 1,200.00
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Ken GrantA Kitchen in Brikenhead near Liverpool, 1989Gelatin Silver Print30.48 x 40.64 cms£ 600.00
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Ken GrantAfter a Sunday Morning Football Match, Anfield, 1989Gelatin Silver Print30.48 x 40.64 cms£ 600.00
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Ken GrantBrothers outside the Kop, waiting, Liverpool, 1989Gelatin Silver Print50.8 x 60.96 cms£ 1,200.00
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Ken Grant'Weigh-in' at Kingsland Cabaret restaurant, Birkenhead, 1990Gelatin Silver Print30.48 x 40.64 cms
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Ken Grant11th July Band Night, Provincial Club, Everton, 1990Gelatin Silver Print30.48 x 40.64 cms
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Ken GrantCarrying slummy home, North End, 1997Vintage Gelatin Silver Print38.1 x 38.1 cms£ 1,000.00 +VAT
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Ken GrantBoy outside headmaster's office, Moreton, 2000Vintage Gelatin Silver Print40.64 x 30.48 cms
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Telling Stories
Picture Post and its Legacy 29 Mar - 10 Jun 2022The exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as well as a curated selection of some later British photographers who built on this storytelling or documentary...Read more -
Ken Grant
No Pain Whatsoever 4 - 18 Mar 2014'No Pain Whatsoever' draws from Grant's long term project photographing his contemporaries in the city of Liverpool, where he was born in 1967. Where earlier series have focused on the...Read more -
Country Matters
British Photographs by Bert Hardy, Roger Mayne, Tony Ray-Jones, Colin Jones, Chris Killip, Homer Sykes, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Anna Fox, Ken Grant 11 Sep - 7 Nov 2013The exhibition explores constructions of Englishness, from eccentric to conformist, aristocrat to working class, northern and southern, black and white, old and young, work and leisure, rural and urban. Covering...Read more -
From Talbot to Fox
150 Years of British Social Photography 16 - 20 Mar 2011In order to build on this earlier New York exhibition, James Hyman Photography's AIPAD exhibition From Talbot to Fox broadens the range of photographers shown in order to provide a...Read more