by Stuart Griffiths
Publisher: Photoworks
Stationed as a paratrooper in Northern Ireland in the late 1980s, Stuart Griffiths assembled an extraordinary archive of personal snapshots. These photographs were made before Griffiths received any formal training in photography, and document his experience of soldiering towards the end of the ‘Troubles’. His images have been published in a new book which includes Griffiths’ first-person narrative describing his changing feelings towards his choice to become a soldier and the validity of the British Army’s position in the conflict. These pictures evoke the boredom, frustration and fear felt by the group of very young men he served alongside.
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