NO GUTS NO GLORY

Max Pigott

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Max Pigott is a social documentary photographer with a strong code of ethics who views the world unfolding around them with a quizzical, detached but incisive way of looking. The images that emerge from this approach are, by turns, marked by crystal clarity, be it familiar things appearing as if seen for the first time, or abstract subjects with a kind of introspective curiosity. Everything is invested with potential and there is no hierarchy of seeing or experience. His work flows from major to minor key and reminds us that there is always something there, some new thought to unveil, or some common theme to reawaken with poetic subtlety and integrity.

Max Pigott is a social documentary photographer with a strong code of ethics who views the world ...

CollegeLondon College of Communication
CourseMA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Graduation year2025

Banger racing, unrecognised as an official heritage sport, is a practice devoted to crashing cars....HARD. More ritual than sport, what first appears as violent and completely destructive, is in truth, a carefully organised and balanced system in which everyone involved has a deep sense of belonging - a congregation of ingenuity, defiance, humour, intergenerational teaching and love. Rooted in a working class culture that is often marginalised or stereotyped by the wider society, banger racing, offers a stage on which alternative forms of value and honour are performed, and accepted. The destruction is nothing without the devotion that rebuilds it.