Stuart Griffiths (photographer)

[2][7] He joined the British Army at age 16, spending five years in the Parachute Regiment, deployed as part of Operation Banner in Northern Ireland.

[12][13] The 2009 documentary film Isolation, directed by Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull, follows Griffiths as he journeys through England encountering ex-soldiers experiencing the physical and emotional scars of life after the Army.

[11] The photographs of The Myth of the Airborne Warrior (2011) "were taken on a compact Canon secreted in his webbing while he was serving as a paratrooper with the British Army in Northern Ireland in the late Eighties and early Nineties.

"[15] Sean O'Hagan, in The Guardian, wrote that "The photographs ... often look snatched or have been taken from a distance so that the housing estates and streets of tribally divided, working-class Belfast look even bleaker and more threatening than they are.

The small book has little context save for Griffiths's own first-person text, which has been heavily edited in black marker to highlight the most shocking anecdotes in direct contrast with the mundanity of the images.