Howard Grey

Grey's father, Alf Grey, was a seaside holiday photographer who gave Howard a Zeiss Ikon Baby Box camera as a child.[1] Grey studied photography at Leicester College of Art (1957–1958), and Ealing Art College, London (1958–1960), then worked as an assistant photographer at Woburn Studios.[1] He set up a studio in Knightsbridge, London, and worked as a commercial photographer on fashion and TV commercial assignments between 1963 and 1969 in the UK and elsewhere.[1] In the 1980s he created stock photographs for Getty Images.[1]

In May 1962 he took photographs of the arrival of the last West Indian migrants at Waterloo Station, London, before the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 came into force.[2] They were exhibited in London in 2018.[3][4]

• Howard Grey – 2500 Weekends Ago. Self-published / Blurb, 2014.
• Island. The Store; The Spaces, 2018. By Caruso St John and Marcus Taylor. Includes two short stories by Sam Selvon and photographs by Grey following the Windrush generation and their arrival in London; poetry by Kate Tempest, photographs by Hélène Binet, a contribution by John Akomfrah, a visual essay by the architectural firm Caruso St John, and an essay by Penelope Curtis and other artists who explore the notion of floods such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.[5] Alongside these are found texts by William Shakespeare.[6]

• In A Different Light, New Acquisitions, Autograph ABP, Rivington Place, London, 2017. Curated by Renée Mussai with Cherelle Sappleton. Group exhibition.[7]
• Black Cultural Archives, Brixton, London, 2018. Solo exhibition.[3][4]

• Official website
• "The last of the Windrush arrivals in 1962 – in pictures" at The Guardian