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Born in Birmingham, in 1948, Griffin studied photography, in Manchester, before starting work as a freelance photographer, in 1972.

 

His portraits for Management Today magazine playfully subverted conventional contemporary corporate photography.

I took this photograph in 1974,” Griffin said.

 

“It was for an article about people commuting into London to work.

 

“I hailed a taxi and asked to be driven slowly across the bridge, while I took images through the cab’s back window.

 

“The inspiration was obviously Fritz Lang’s film Metropolis.”

Griffin’s later work graced many album covers.

 

His 1979 picture of writer Charlie Woods standing to attention after lighting a sky rocket on a grey misty day on Dungeness Beach, in Kent, was used many years later for the cover of Howard Jones’s album Cross that Line.

 

And his portraits of artists such as Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, REM, Depeche Mode and Queen, led the Guardian newspaper to name him photographer of the decade, in 1989.

Celebrated news photographer John Grainger has been found dead.

 

NSW police sources confirmed a body found during a search for a man reported missing from the Northern Beaches on October 1 was Mr Grainger. He was 64 years of age.

 

Mr Grainger earned numerous journalism awards during his three decades in the media working for the Daily Telegraph.

 

He was behind the famous 2018 front page picture of pregnant Vikki Campion under the iconic headline Bundle of Joyce which won the Walkley Award for Scoop of the Year.

Walkley judges described it as a “genuine scoop accompanied by an iconic headline and ‘gotcha’ photograph”.

 

“Bundle of Joyce would bring down a deputy prime minister and result in a ban on ministers having relationships with staffers,” the judges wrote. “Right across the nation talk of office romances and family values was dominating water coolers and dinner tables.”

 

Grainger was also a two-time Kennedy Award winner.

 

Another of his noteworthy photographs was of a disheveled Anthony Albanese outside his Marrickville house the morning after he won the 2022 election.