Ken Grant

Ken Grant was born in Liverpool in 1967. Since the 1980's he has photographed in the city and engaged in sustained projects both in the UK and in wider Europe.

The series Benny Profane is drawn from a long term engagement with a dockland district that Grant first knew as a labourer in his youth. Bound by a few square miles at the edge of the River Mersey, it dwells on the river’s hinterland and, in particular, the vast expanse of the Bidston Moss, to become an immersion into one area and those who depended upon it. It is an involved and tender body of work, an account of kinship and defiance in a difficult land.

The IKS holds 9 works from the series Benny Profane in their collection.

Benny Profane, 1989 - 1997, 31,8 cm x 24,1 cm (paper size), black and white pigment prints, AP 1 / Ed. 8+3AP, signed