A Photographer’s Caribbean Voyage - Windrush 75

Can Art Save Us?

Jim Grover, a social documentary photographer who deep dives respectfully into the hearts and minds of people in his local communities. Living in South Clapham London, he is rewarded with a rich tapestry of life. His work celebrates 75 years of Windrush stories and Caribbean culture, 25 years of the ordination of women into the Church of England priesthood and he has captured Covid stories from a single park bench during the global crisis. He celebrated the life of Maurice Dorfman, who ran the longest surviving independent shop on Clapham High Street. Maurice was the grandchild of Ukrainian refugees who arrived in 1902, fleeing anti-semitic violence in what was then part of Russia. And this is what Jim does. He looks behind shop facades into West Indian Dominoes clubs and Jamaican front rooms. He attends gravesides and community meetings. Like his first major project entitled 'Of Things Unseen,' Jim looks behind all of those walls that can stop us from seeing our shared human experience and from connecting. His work is described as 'poignant, intimate, moving, and often beautiful.' And the Times, the Observer, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, Time Out, the BBC, the British Journal of photography are all a part of the British media and more that respects his work in return. We talk about trust and ethics in Jim's role as a social documentary photographer with access to homes, funerals and deeply personal stories.

Season 4 features 7 Windrush specific interviews with world class and award winning artists, just look for titles with 'Windrush 75.'

Series Audio Editor - Courtesy of Joey Quan.

Closed Captions are added to all interviews in this series. News and read only, text versions of every interview can also be found here: www.canartsaveus.com

Discover Jim Grover: www.jimgroverphotography.com/

The Windrush Exhibition: www.windrushvoyagethroughthegenerations.com/

Find out more about #Justice4Windrush www.justice4windrush.org/