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Biography
Stuart Griffiths (b. 1972 in Manchester) As a teenager Stuart Griffiths had a keen interest in photography. At 16 Griffiths enlisted in the Parachute Regiment and became a unit photographer with the Intelligence Section in Northern Ireland. He left the British Army in 1993 to concentrate on photography.
In 1997 he graduated from the University of Brighton with an honours degree in Editorial Photography and worked as a freelance photographer on self initiated stories, including; Albania Before The Collapse, Northern Ireland Uprising, Civil War In The Democratic Republic of Congo & Private Security in Baghdad, Iraq.
Griffith's life has been well documented by his personal work on British Soldiers. In 2009 the film Isolation following Griffith's photographic work on veterans was premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Griffiths is a visiting lecturer on photography at Universities across the UK. He continues to work on commissions for international publications and was a consultant and stills photographer for Ken Loach's film Route Irish.
His work has been exhibited in-group shows & published worldwide.
Exhibitions
- 2008 - 'Conflict & Contrast' London
- 2008 - 'Vice-Land' London
- 2008 - 'The Press Photographers Year' London
- 2007 - 'Westway Opening' Westway hostel, London
- 1995 - 'After The Cease-fire' Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
- 1994 - 'Generation X' Phoenix Gallery, Brighton