Len Grant is a photographer and writer who specialises in both social issues and urban renewal.
BREAKING NEWS: Life Without Papers blog has been shortlisted for Amnesty International Media Award 2013!
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Social Issues
• My latest blog project documents the daily challenges faced by undocumented families and young people. Life Without Papers won the online category at the Speaking Together Media Award 2013. It's commissioned by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Unbound Philanthropy. Follow on Twitter for updates.
• The Her First Year blog about a teenage mum from Moss Side won Best Personal Blog at the Blog North Awards and was featured in the Guardian Weekend Magazine on 13th October 2012.
• Last year ‘embedded’ with a community project in Devon. Read the blog here. ‘Len has a wonderfully humane way of writing descriptively.’
• My Billy and Rolonde book is about a heroin addict, asylum seeker and homeless alcoholic. Available by mail order from Cornerhouse.
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Urban Renewal
• For more than 20 years I have documented the regeneration of Manchester and Salford. Click on some of the links on the left.
• Am currently commissioned to produce two books: the first is about The Co-operative Group’s new head office and the second is about the renovation and new build at Trafford Town Hall.
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