In 2017,Brian Griffin was invited to undertake an artist’s residency in Béthune-Bruay, northern France. Griffin, and who is one of the most prominent British photographers of his generation,was initially selected because of the links between this region and his native Black Country, Midlands - both in terms of landscape and industrial heritage. But Griffin soon had other ideas, and drawn from the fact that Béthune-Bruay was just ten miles from the Western Front during World War One. “I’m just a basic Black Country boy and I do form some obvious decisions,which do many times turn out to be fruitful,” he says. So I decided to focus on the First World War.”
Source: bjp-online.com