![]() ![]() Now, though, Benny Profane’s home is no longer the east coast of America as it is for much of Pynchon’s novel. Parallels have been drawn between the character’s journey straddling light and dark, and the people Grant captures in his photographs, who “navigate their own journeys towards some kind of stability in an era where little was ”. The photobook borrows its name from the protagonist of V, the 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon which follows the life of the titular former US Navy sailor. He’d go on to spend the best part of a decade capturing the area between 19, the resulting photographs – many of which unseen – figuring in his new book, Benny Profane. It was at the end of the 80s that Grant would begin to photograph the Docklands area north of Birkenhead, a stone’s throw from Liverpool across the River Mersey. ![]() Dereliction and demoralisation make repeat appearances, as do the everyday lives of the working class. ![]() Though subjects and situations vary, threaded throughout virtually all of his work is a tendency to portray those cast aside by society. From Liverpool’s proud football scene to the pockets of Liverpudlian culture hidden from the national eye, Ken Grant has been capturing the city and its environs since the 1980s. ![]()
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