\n Simon Grosset has more than 40 years of experience in the photography industry, covering everything from newspaper assignments to weddings.\n<\/p>\n
\n Now, \u2018A Life in Pictures: Photography by Simon Grosset\u2019 has opened its doors at Gallery27, off Dunbar\u2019s Spott Road.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Grosset, who lives in the town, said: \u201cI have been a photographer all my life.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI started by watching my father make black and white prints in a makeshift darkroom in the spare bedroom, progressing to working for the school magazine, the university newspaper, and then to national newspapers and the old Fleet Street.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe life of an editorial photographer is a fantastic one.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI have travelled all over the world to cover stories, met amazing people, and often watched and photographed as history unfurled itself in front of my lens.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I worked as a freelance photographer for The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and other international publications.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t miss it, and my 40 years of experience prepared me for anything and everything that can happen as a photographer!\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAs digital photography emerged fully in 2001, I worked as a wedding photographer, which I saw as editorial photography on my terms.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut 25 years later, I semi-retired as I realised I was older than the bride and groom\u2019s parents!\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The exhibition, which is open until August 29, illustrates the progression from black and white photographs through to colour photographs for international agency Gamma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simon Grosset has more than 40 years of experience in the photography industry, covering everything from newspaper assignments…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}