Closer: one man’s military campaign
HOT’s Zelly Restorick felt drawn to interview photographer and writer, Stuart Griffiths, whose exhibition Closer will be showing at Sussex Coast College later this month. What had happened between his ‘squaddie at sixteen’ past and his current membership of the Veterans for Peace movement, she wondered? Meeting Stuart at his local, The North Star in Bohemia, she asked him why he had chosen to reveal aspects of the army, very different to those marketed by the Ministry of Defence?