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CONTACT:
michael@michaelgrieve.co.uk
+44(0)7932041380

REPRESENTED:
Agence Vu
Oblong Gallery, London, UK

LINKS:
www.1000wordsmag.com

BIOGRAPHY:
Michael Grieve was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1966. After travelling the Middle East he moved to London to become a documentary photographer and studied a degree in Film, Video & Photographic Arts at the Polytechnic of Central London. In 1997 he graduated from the Photographic Studies MA at the University of Westminster and proceeded to work for magazines and organisations worldwide. His first book, No Love Lost, is a project about dislocation and intimacy in sexual environments in England and is soon to be published. He is the deputy editor for the contemporary photography magazine, 1000 Words. He describes his work as ‘searching for the light of possibility in an existential world’. Based in London.

EDUCATION:
MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster. 1997.
BA Film, Video & Photographic Arts, Polytechnic of Central London. 1994.

EXHIBITIONS/FESTIVALS:
Festiwal Fotodokumentu, Poland, 2010.
Guiden, Blue of Night, London, UK, 2010.
Oblong Gallery, Miniscule, London, UK, 2010.
Noorderlicht Festival, Human Conditions, Lost, Holland, 2009.
Rencontres d’Arles, Nuit de l’Année, France, 2008.
London Stories, Shoreditch Town Hall, UK, 2006 .

UPDATE:
June 2010 Group show, Miniscule at Oblong Gallery, London.
May 2010, talk at North East Photography Network.
December 2009, portfolio of No Love Lost featured in Foto8 Magazine.
September 2009, No Love Lost exhibited at Noorderlicht Festival.