8xtra Stuart Griffiths p4

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Drawing a regimentle cap badge on the wall in a restaurant in Kenya, 1992	Soldiers in their room, RUC Woodburn, West Belfast, 1991
It looked like his future would map out fine. He completed a degree in photography at the University of Brighton under the tutelage of Mark Power, sold some work to the Imperial War Museum, but then went on an ill-fated photographic mission to Congo Brazzaville, a country on the brink of civil war. During the instability in Kinshasa, Griffiths was arrested, and forced to go through a mock execution. His interpreter was tortured. Shaken by events, he would spend the next year as a potato picker in Portugal. When he returned to the UK, he had nothing – save his camera. He was eventually told about a hostel for ex-servicemen in east London, and he went along, showed them his red book, an indication that he has served, and was given a room. Remarkably, Griffiths began what would become a lucrative career as a paparazzo, lurking outside The Ivy long into the night, waiting for an “A-lister” to glide by...	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 >>