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    How Is The World? Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Photography   March 9, 2013–May 26, 2013 http://www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/how-is-the-world ‘The Vale of Rest’, Tom Hunter How Is the World? highlights a selection of photographs acquired by the Corcoran Gallery of Art over the past few years. The exhibition features works as varied as Paul Graham’s dramatic redefinition of street [...]

Moose Book Launch and Signings http://www.mooseontheloose.net 16th of May 2013 7-9pm All Welcome for this free event Books by; Tom Hunter, Stuart Griffiths, Chris Harrison, Grace Lau, David Moore and Marjolaine Ryley Plus the latest issues of Photography & Culture Bring your favourite glass, best glass prize awarded on the night by MacDonaldStrand and Gost Shoreditch Town Hall Council Chambers 380 Old St, London [...]

Tom Hunter will be showing his Unheralded Stories series of photographs at the Mission gallery in Wales. 18 May – 14 July 2013 Mission Gallery is very pleased to present the work of Tom Hunter, to coincide with Diffusion the Cardiff International Photography Festival, organised by Ffotogallery. Mission Gallery, Gloucester Place Maritime Quarter,  Swansea, SA1 1TY +44 (0) 1792 652016  info@missiongallery.co.uk & [...]

I have 50 new photographic images being exhibited in Birmingham http://www.findingsbirmingham.co.uk                                                                     Many of the buildings I have photographed are monuments to our industrial past, sh [...]

Making It Up: Photographic Fictions Victoria and Albert Museum The world’s greatest museum of art and design Opening times 10.00 to 17.45 daily 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays 3 May 2013 – 12 January 2014 Room 38A Free admission Photography is widely associated with truthfulness yet it has also been employed throughout its history as a means of telling stories and evoking the imaginary. This display includes photographs [...]

MOMA has acquired two works for their collection; ‘After the Party’, from the series ‘Life and Death in Hackney’  (2000) from my show at the White Cube Gallery, London. and ‘The Art of Squatting’, from the series ‘Persons Unknown’  (1997) from my Royal College of Art degree show. Be great to see them on the wall, I can pretend to be Woody Allen in ‘Manhattan’ [...]

Tom Hunter / The Way Home February 2013 Interviewed by Katy Barron http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2013/02/the-way-home/ Tom Hunter recently met with Katy Barron to discuss Hunter’s newly published book The Way Home (Hatje Cantz, 2012) and his work within the recent National Gallery exhibition Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present.  Below, an excerpt of their conversation transcribed for Photomonitor details the [...]

Seduced by Art, Photography Past & Present Features Tom Hunter’s ‘Death of Colotti’ Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain From 22 February to 19 May http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/english/caixaforumbarcelona/seducedbyart_en.html What is the connection between the great masterpieces of painting, the first photographs and the work  of some contemporary photographers? The exhibition shows the [...]

For me this project is a journey back into the country’s industrial heritage and at the same time a personal journey into my own history. http://www.findingsbirmingham.co.uk/ Many of the buildings I have photographed are monuments to this industrial past, showing us the fingerprints of working lives and the products that these endveours have created and from them a way of life and culture. I have always been at [...]

PUBLIC SPACES, PUBLIC STAGES http://www.bootstrapcompany.co.uk/3_print_house_gallery “These photographs are Earthly, here the word evokes the inter-relatedness of the environment to the life that takes place within it. A resolute acceptance of the cycles and seasons of na- ture. Birth and death. Physical human situations, stories, people and places in-between. At the same time an important link to the artist’s curren [...]