Howard Grey

Howard and Kathy borrowed some lingerie from Bradleys of Knightsbridge for a test shoot. When the photographs were printed Howard showed them to the owner who asked to buy them for her catalogues.

Self portraits of Howard Grey in 1 Studio Place.

Portrait of party host and impressario Donny Neville-Willing a.k.a The Major.

Unknown band shoot.

Portrait of Trudi Juggenaut.

Damaged transparencies showing contemporary 70s domestic objects.

Photographs of Kathy Hill in the bath at Studio Place.

“Larry was a mate of my Dads. I shot him on the morning he came out of Pentonville prison, because my Dad was in the betting office in the afternoon. Dad was a gambler and most of his friends came from betting offices. This guy, Larry, had enough money to go around the world and note down the bias on all the roulette wheels in the casinos in the world. He’d get people to sit and note down the numbers, and then he’d go around and gamble at the tables for a week and win (the bias would only show after a week). But then he got frustrated with people changing room layouts and getting new wheels and he started getting an inside man to fix the wheel just at closing with a bit of lead or something. And of course he got caught and went to prison.

The day my Dad heard he was getting arrested Larry said to him ‘Look after this case’, like an attache briefcase. My Dad tried for a week to get the combination while the guy was in prison you know, and when he did there were 5 passports, a lot of dollars, and a gun! I said ‘What are you going to do with the money?’ he said ‘I’m going to bloody leave it alone- this guys got friends all over the world!’.

So this photo was taken the morning the guy had gotten out of Pentonville prison before he’d had any food or anything and my Dad said ‘Come round, meet my son and we’ll go out and get a meal, get some decent protien into you’.”

Photographs taken for Howard’s parent’s (Alf and Hetty) bus passes.