Jim Grover is a social-documentary photographer based in Clapham, South London. His particular passion is using images to tell stories…especially stories that celebrate daily life, ‘unsung heroes’, local communities and traditions…and to make the unseen seen.
Jim's images have appeared in many publications and online including The Times; The Sunday Times; The Observer; the BBC (TV, on-line, radio); The Guardian; Time Out; The British Journal of Photography; Black + White Photography; Amateur Photographer, amongst many others.
His images have been recognized in various competitions including The Sony World Photography Awards, and the Landscape Photographer of the Year. In 2015 he won the ‘Faith Through a Lens’ competition; the judging panel was chaired by Sir Don McCullin CBE.
His work has appeared in both solo and joint exhibitions. In May 2018 his solo exhibition in the Oxo Gallery on London’s South Bank, ‘Windrush: Portrait of a Generation’, received extensive national media coverage (‘One of 2018’s must see shows…’); the exhibition has been re-exhibited four times and been enjoyed by well over 20,000 visitors. This followed his 2016 solo exhibition, ‘Of Things Not Seen’, also exhibited in the Oxo Gallery and at the 2017 Edinburgh Festival, and his 2017 solo exhibition, ‘48 Hours On Clapham High Street’.
In May 2019 Jim exhibited, ‘Here Am I’; it was commissioned to celebrate the 25th anniversary, in 2019, of the ordination of women in the Church of England. In 2020 Jim exhibited ‘Covid Tales from Tom’s Bench’; it was featured by both The Guardian and the BBC. In 2021 he exhibited 'Dearly Beloved' in the 2021 Photo Oxford festival; the exhibition was guest curated by the acclaimed British photographer Vanessa Winship.
In 2022 Jim exhibited ‘Behind the shop facade: The Life of Maurice Dorfman’. It was staged in the Clapham Library and received extensive media coverage, including by The Guardian and the BBC.
Jim teaches documentary photography at the Leica Akademie.
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Photograph by kind permission of Charlie Bibby at The Financial Times.