Sam Gregg (b. 1990) is an autodidactic portrait and documentary photographer from London. With a particular interest in marginalized and dispossessed communities, Gregg's work is both immersed and removed, taking refuge within complex environments as a means of following narratives that reflect on his own culture. Throughout his work Gregg returns to outliers, individuals who live on the outskirts and are hidden away or deliberately misrepresented as a means of exerting power and controlling narratives. Gregg’s work seeks to unravel stereotypes and rather than trying to glamorize difficult situations, he aims to sit side by side with his subjects, without judgment in order to know their stories as they wish them to be told rather than how society seeks to mould them. His work is a quest to disrupt and question taboos, to celebrate universal human values whilst also being honest about social structures and media, which can restrict and bind people rather than saving or liberating them.
EDUCATION
University College London
BA French & Italian
2008 – 2012
EXHIBITIONS
2020
Scoperte e Ritrovamenti, Group Show, Bari, Italy, Curated by Piero Percoco (The Rainbow is Underestimated). Sam Gregg, Dorothea Lange, Alba Zari, Vanessa Winship
See Naples and Die, Solo Exhibition, London, Curated by Gabriella Sonabend, London, UK
2019
Trap - Trauma - Transformation, Curated by Rohan Da Costa, Greenlining Institute, Oakland, USA
2018
Embracing Diversity, Photo Vogue Festival, BASE Milano, Italy
When Ethics meets Aesthetics, Vogue Italia, Leica Gallery Milan, Italy
2016
Refuse: Refuge: Re-fuse, The Koppel Project, London, UK
SELECTED PRESS
Online
- Sam Gregg, Artist Documentary, Why Now, 2020
- Naples through the eyes of a British photographer, i-D, 2019
- Photographer’s series of striking gritty portraits of Londoners in their daily lives that ‘explore what it means to be British’, The Evening Standard, 2019
- Sam Gregg's latest work uses photography to rediscover his hometown of London, It’s Nice That, 2019
- Meet self-taught photographer Sam Gregg, Lecture in Progress, 2019
- The winsome charm of Sam Gregg’s London street photography, i-D, 2019
- Sam Gregg on Paul D’Amato, Rocket Science Magazine, 2019
- Documenting the beauty of life inside Bangkok’s biggest slum, Dazed, 2018
Print
- See Naples and Die featured in China Newsweek, 2019
- See Naples and Die featured in Corriere della Sera (Italian newspaper)
- See Naples and Die featured in De Volskrant (Dutch newspaper), 2020
- Blighty featured in China Newsweek, 2019
- Neon Dreams featured in Hustle Magazine, 2019
- The Vegetarian Festival featured in Joia Magazine, 2019
- See Naples and Die featured in Personne Mag, 2019
- See Naples and Die featured in Vision Magazine China, 2019
- The Happy Couple featured in Vogue Italia, December issue, 2019
- See Naples and Die featured in Tages-Anzeiger (Swiss newspaper), 2019
- See Naples and Die featured in Yorokobu, 2018
- See Naples and Die featured in Haikure Magazine, Pitti Uomo, 2018
- Portfolio featured in After Nyne Magazine, 2017
SELECTED COMMERCIAL CLIENTS
Apple, Giffgaff, Lavazza, L’Uomo Vogue, M le Magazine du Monde, Pitchfork, The Clove Club
