Brian Griffin

Before studying photography, Griffin worked as an engineer for British Steel, which helped with the technical side of his photography. He met Martin Parr at Manchester Polytechnic during 1969-72. His early work for Management Today magazine revealed his surreal and inventive vision of his ostensibly stuffy subjects and inspired the ‘capitalist realism’ style of the 90s. He has photographed musicians from Iggy Pop to Siouxsie and the Banshees and worked as a film producer making music videos and adverts.

His images are usually highly staged and he devised ingenious methods to create an effect, such as twanging knicker elastic to create shafts of light.