Brian Griffin

Griffin is a British born photographer that has been photographing for over 40 years from the 1970 using a 35mm film camera before advancing in to the digital age of photography.
Influenced by Tony Ray Jones in his childhood, his family and friends didn't encourage him to have a career in photography as it was a subject that was looked down on that didn't bring a lot of financial income. He ignored others opinions as he knew from the beginning that photography was the route that he wanted to persue and went on to complete a diploma in photography before travelling which inspired him to take a lot of documentary style photographs of street scenes and other objects that he came across.
He has specialised in portrait images which he then enlisted the help of a friend (Barney Bubbles) to give a unique twist to by sketching line drawings on to the prints and eventually it became a self-published book. A lot of Griffin's work is portrait images of Bubbles using his apartment as a backdrop, inspired by Casper David Fredrick, and self made lighting equipment as his budget was restricted when he started out as a photographer.
Griffin has also completed commission work for magazines such as the Financial Times to earn more money as well as photographing big name celebrities such as Sir Paul McCartney.