Book Reviews, Photobooks Book review of Tom Hunter’s The Way Home, By Joerg Colberg Oct 25, 2012 “In this book,” writes Tom Hunter in the introduction to The Way Home, “I have set out many of the bodies of work I have created over the last twenty-five years while making my journey through the streets of Hackney, trying to make sense of this urban maze and find my way home.” And: “While my subject has alw
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present 31 October 2012 – 20 January 2013 National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.15pm) Fridays 10am – 9pm (last admission 8.15pm) (Closed 24, 25, 26 December 2012 and 1 January 2013) Today’s photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions that long predate it. ‘Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present’ is
From The Ghetto to the National Gallery, Tom Hunter continues to explore themes that depict his local neighbourhood, drawing on art historical references to paint Hackney in a different light to the usual lurid newspaper stories of urban blight. Three years ago Paul Wombell curated a group exhibition for Photo España in Madrid drawing attention to what he said was a small but growing band of photographers who were re
Tom Hunter has an approach to work that is both serious and considered. Rather than the veil of humour and irony that masks much of contemporary art, Hunter’s work is unashamedly artful. Moreover, his position is not solely expressed by nods to the story of art. For equally, the work is socially aware and engaged with the chronicle of our contemporary world. Hunter inhabits a place of his own creation (much lik