Ken Grant

Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area.

[6] Writing in The Observer, Sean O'Hagan has described the No Pain Whatsoever series[n 1] as "from the same great British tradition as the work of Chris Killip and Graham Smith .

show Grant's wonderfully keen eye for the humdrum realities of everyday working-class – or more accurately, unemployed – existence in the 1980s and beyond .

It is the instinct of the social documentarian, and Grant deserves to rank alongside the better-known Martin Parr as one of the best.

"[4] As influences and inspirations, Grant has cited Raymond Carver, Fred Voss, Terence Davies, Christer Strömholm, Bruce Davidson, and Gil Scott-Heron.