My new book Le Crowbar is now available online through Here Press http://www.herepress.org/publications/tom-hunter-le-crowbar/ ‘…and with just a flyer from Steve Bedlam, stating “Hostomice, It’s Out There… The Tekno Travellers’ Holiday Destination Of The Year” as directions, we head off to Europe.’ In 1995 Tom Hunter set off from a squatted street in Hackney with a group of friends in an old double decker bus, loaded
Artist Tom Hunter on photographing close to home http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/the-knowledge/tom-hunter-photographer-interview Tom Hunter is the only artist to have a solo photography exhibition at the National Gallery. His work has also been shown at the V&A, the White Cube and the Serpentine Gallery. Ahead of a group show at Tryon St Gallery, Tom talks to us about photographing friends and taking inspiration
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
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
This is an image I made in Dorset at a place called the ‘Travellers Rest’ just outside of Blandford in about 1993. It shows the interior of an old coach which my friend bought after it was decommissioned from a local bus company. Funnily enough, it was one of the coaches I used to take to school from Bere Regis to Blandford High school so it brought back lots of memories, just being back in that familiar
London. Portrait of a City A photographic journey through the history of this epic city Samuel Johnson famously said that: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.” London’s remarkable history, architecture, landmarks, streets, style, cool, swagger, and stalwart residents are pictured in hundreds of compelling photographs sourced from a wide array of archives around the world. London is a vast sprawling m
I have become Nuffield College’s first artist in residence at Oxford University. I have been taking portraits of the Scouts, cleaners, butlers and workers from the University college halls, putting the people from behind the scenes in the picture and giving them the status of the grand paintings adorning the halls where they work. Twelve portraits have been taken and I am preparing to commence the next phase, r
‘Murder-Two Men Wanted’, is the only photograph in the collection of the National Gallery, London. It is based on Piero di Cosimo’s painting ‘A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph’ (1495) which is also in the National Gallery’s collection. The title and inspiration for the photograph came from the headline of a Hackney Gazette article. The series of tableaux photographs ‘Living in He