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John Angerson
I spent the early years of my career photographing business meetings, supermarket openings, real estate, school children, and politicians. Grin'n'Grab is the term for this provincial newspaper coverage of local events. In the archives of every newspaper photographer and local photo agency sit thousands of now useless images of these same events: ribbon cuttings, houses, businessmen, charity donations.
Is there anything that can't be re-contextualised? Any photographic archive, that with time, can't change to become something more? Something more meaningful than its original intention suggested?
It's tempting to disown this period of my career, but the sting of the phrase 'commerical photographer ' will always remind me of my beginnings. Grin'n'Grab is a look at my personal history, but also a glimpse at the mountain of imagery that we photographers have made, most to be left decaying in the archives of every town and every 'commercial photographer '.
Grin'n'Grab
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