LONDON.- In a series of understated and eloquent photographs, Stephen J Morgan encapsulates Birmingham with a measured beauty, capturing its Irishness and its brutal ugliness. Falling into the centre of mainstream European fine art photography, Stephen’s work is none-the- less a quintessential account of the world and habitat of the immigrant Irish working class as in the photograph above, Where my grandfather drank, 2002. He writes: “I have always been intrigued with memory, its abstract nature and the relationship it has with photographs and their relationship to me. Over the last seven years I have worked in two ways. The first, as in the series’ ‘I Was Born an English Catholic’ I photographed what I knew and where I came from. I took photographs in the Ladywood Social Club in Birmingham, the three bars where my grandfather drank and the two stages he sang on. I didn’t want to just document the club; I wanted to show