Jim Grover new exhibition at Omnibus

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Jim Grover is a photographer based in Clapham, South London.

Jim’s images have appeared in various publications and online including The Times; The Sunday Times; the BBC; Sunday Times Travel; The Guardian; The Guardian Magazine; The Daily Telegraph; The British Journal of Photography; Black + White Photography; Leica Forum.

His images have been recognized in various competitions including The Sony World Photography Awards, and the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards. In 2015 he won the ‘Faith Through a Lens’ competition; the judging panel was chaired by the internationally-renowned photographer Sir Don McCullin CBE.

His work has appeared in exhibitions in Somerset House and The National Theatre in London. In March 2016 his solo exhibition, Of Things Not Seen (www.ofthingsnotseen.com) in the Oxo Gallery on London’s South Bank, attracted 7,400 visitors and extensive media coverage; it is currently touring various various UK locations in 2017.

In 2016 he was a member of the judging panel at the MIA Photo Fair in Milan.

During the Autumn of 2016, award-winning photographer Jim Grover spent 48 hours taking photos on Clapham High Street. The result is a set of images that encapsulate the many and varied ways that people experience “their” high street.

 

The stark difference between the two lives of the High Street – – daytime shoppers and night-time clubbers – – are amplified by this unique approach. Curator Katy Barron, who worked with Jim on his previous project, has selected a set of 48 images: 24 in colour and 24 in black and white for this exhibition.

The resulting photographs capture a rich diversity of scenes from everyday life. Beauty and ugliness; chaos and tranquillity; youth and age; love; compassion; tenderness; companionship; resilience; and humour, are all played out in front of the over-looked backdrop of a typical British high street.

Jim Grover comments: ‘In some ways this is ‘just a high street’, like any other. But in Clapham some very different worlds are seeking to co-exist on a single street, creating intrigue and tension. And that is what made it such a fascinating photographic subject.’

48 Hours on Clapham High Street: A Photo-essay opens on 3rd April at Omnibus

 

 

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