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Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area. ==Life and career== Born in Liverpool in 1967,〔Sean O'Hagan, "(Format international photography festival – review )". ''The Observer,'' 10 March 2013. Accessed 15 April 2014.〕〔Sarah Phillips, "(Ken Grant's best photograph: A child on the Merseyside coast )", ''The Guardian'', 27 February 2013. Accessed 15 April 2014.〕 Grant worked as a carpenter in Liverpool after finishing school,〔〔Brian Viner, "(Mersey beat: Ken Grant captured the spirit of Liverpool as it coped with two decades of distress )", ''The Independent'', 17 February 2013. Accessed 15 April 2014.〕 even then taking photographs.〔Benjamin Tree, "(ASX interviews Ken Grant )", ASX, March 2013. Accessed 16 April 2014.〕 He later studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design,〔 studying under Martin Parr and Paul Graham. Grant tends to work slowly, returning again and again to the same places and becoming a familiar sight to the people who gather there.〔 ''The Close Season'' was published by Dewi Lewis over a decade after Grant had first met Lewis; the photographs in ''No Pain Whatsoever'' (whose title derives from a story by Richard Yates) were taken over a span of more than two decades.〔 Writing in ''The Observer'', Sean O'Hagan has described the ''No Pain Whatsoever'' series〔The series is reproduced (here ) within Grant's site.〕 as "from the same great British tradition as the work of Chris Killip and Graham Smith . . . a record of a time when working-class traditions were under threat from Thatcherism."〔〔A link to the article here on Smith is in O'Hagan's article at theguardian.com; a link there to Killip's website is changed here to a link to the article here on Killip.〕 Writing in ''The Independent'', Brian Viner said "The photographs . . . show Grant's wonderfully keen eye for the humdrum realities of everyday working-class – or more accurately, unemployed – existence in the 1980s and beyond . . . It is the instinct of the social documentarian, and Grant deserves to rank alongside the better-known Martin Parr as one of the best."〔 Diane Smyth, writing in the ''British Journal of Photography'' about Grant's book ''Flock'' said "Grant avoids making easy statements in favour of simple observation. Even so, by recording these everyday working lives, he's made a series that matters."〔 As influences and inspirations, Grant has cited Raymond Carver, Fred Voss, Terence Davies, Christer Strömholm, Bruce Davidson, and Gil Scott-Heron.〔 Grant was the course leader of the BA (Hons) Documentary Photography course at the University of Wales, Newport〔〔(Staff profiles, Film, photography and digital media ), University of South Wales. Accessed 14 April 2014.〕 between 1998 and 2013, when he became a lecturer in the MFA Photography course at the University of Ulster.〔(Ken Grant ), Belfast School of Art. Accessed 15 April 2014.〕〔"(2013/14 Art and Design )", University of Ulster. Accessed 14 April 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ken Grant」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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