Howard Grey

Howard Grey (born c. 1942) is a British photographer. He is known for his photographs of the arrival of the last West Indian migrants at Waterloo Station, London, before the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 came into force.

Life and work

Grey's father, Alf Grey, was a seaside holiday photographer who gave Howard a Zeiss Ikon Baby Box camera as a child.[1] Grey studied photography at Leicester College of Art (1957–1958), and Ealing Art College, London (1958–1960), then worked as an assistant photographer at Woburn Studios.[1] He set up a studio in Knightsbridge, London, and worked as a commercial photographer on fashion and TV commercial assignments between 1963 and 1969 in the UK and elsewhere.[1] In the 1980s he created stock photographs for Getty Images.[1]

In May 1962 he took photographs of the arrival of the last West Indian migrants at Waterloo Station, London, before the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 came into force.[2] They were exhibited in London in 2018.[3][4]

Publications

Howard Grey – 2500 Weekends Ago. Self-published / Blurb, 2014.
Island. The Store; The Spaces, 2018. By Caruso St John and Marcus Taylor. Includes two short stories by Sam Selvon and photographs by Grey following the Windrush generation and their arrival in London; poetry by Kate Tempest, photographs by Hélène Binet, a contribution by John Akomfrah, a visual essay by the architectural firm Caruso St John, and an essay by Penelope Curtis and other artists who explore the notion of floods such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.[5] Alongside these are found texts by William Shakespeare.[6]

Exhibitions

In A Different Light, New Acquisitions, Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, London, 2017. Curated by Renée Mussai with Cherelle Sappleton. Group exhibition.[7]
Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, London, 2018. Solo exhibition.[3][4]

References

"Howard Grey". Retrieved 2020-03-05.
"Windrush generation: Photos that lay undeveloped for over 50 years". BBC. Retrieved 2020-03-05.
Grant, Colin (12 October 2019). "The motherland: lost images of the Windrush generation". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
"These archive photos show the Windrush generation arriving in London". Time Out London. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
"Tales of the sea: behind John Morgan's identity for Island, the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale". It’s Nice That. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-12.
"Books". thespaces.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
"In A Different Light Exhibition Autograph Archive". Autograph ABP. Retrieved 2020-07-31.

External links

Official website
"The last of the Windrush arrivals in 1962 – in pictures" at The Guardian

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[autographabp-1] "Howard Grey". Retrieved 2020-03-05.

[2] "Windrush generation: Photos that lay undeveloped for over 50 years". BBC. Retrieved 2020-03-05.

[guardian-grant-3] Grant, Colin (12 October 2019). "The motherland: lost images of the Windrush generation". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[timeout-4] "These archive photos show the Windrush generation arriving in London". Time Out London. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[5] "Tales of the sea: behind John Morgan's identity for Island, the British Pavilion at Venice Biennale". It’s Nice That. 24 May 2018. Retrieved 2019-10-12.

[6] "Books". thespaces.com. Retrieved 2020-07-31.

[7] "In A Different Light Exhibition Autograph Archive". Autograph ABP. Retrieved 2020-07-31.