Michael Grieve
"Procession"

Exhibition: 14 September ‐ 11 October 2023
Opening: Thursday, 14 September, 7pm
Artist talk: Thursday, 21 September, 7pm

Procession is a meandering process that follows an invisible subject along the trajectory of the ancient road called Iera Odos, stretching 18km from Athens to Elifsina. Procession is a search for meaning by physical effort, with the foot bearing the weight and firmly on the ground, treading across the periphery of a varied urban terrain tangled up with fragments of nature. This is not a tale of two cities but rather the space in-between. An equivalence of opposing elements.

Michael Grieve is a British photographer who has lived in Athens for the past 6 years. His work is a visual and psychological investigation of an inner and outer place, trying to understand the contradictions of the phenomena of what is ‘there’ and the multiple and fluid shifts of meaning in the urban landscape.

Michael Grieve is the director of Hamburg Werkstatt Fotografie (HWF), ArtFotoMode and lecturer at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. In 1997 he graduated with an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster and then proceeded to work as a photojournalist and portrait photographer for publications internationally, and represented by Agence VU in Paris.

He was the deputy editor of 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine and a writer for the British Journal of Photography. Since 2011 he has been a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, Akademia Fotografie in Poland, the University of Art and Design in Berlin, and currently teaches at Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin.

He is the director of HWF, a space for education/exhibitions/events in Hamburg. He is currently working on Procession, a photographic project documenting the peripheral space between Athens and Elifsina in Greece.

More information: www.michaelgrieve.co.uk