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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

Born in Dorset, Tom Hunter moved to Hackney in 1986. His work has been seen at London’s National Gallery, the V&A Museum and Saatchi Collection   By Will Cantopher BBC London For an artist who plucks his ideas from today’s headlines while looking back to the painterly traditions of the past, Tom Hunter is resolute about one thing. He seldom strays far from the Hackney, east London neighbourhood h

‘The Ghetto’ 3D Photographic Model, Tom Hunter, 1994   http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/E8.html   The photographic model ‘The Ghetto’ was created in 1994 by Tom Hunter when he lived in a squatted community in Hackney. The title for the series comes from the local paper the Hackney Gazette, which printed an article about his community. One part of the ‘The Ghetto’ article describes the neigh

http://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/sendung/wdr/2012/tom-hunter-102.html Sozialkritische Fotos nach Motiven Alter Meister Der Brite Tom Hunter fotografiert im Londoner Viertel Hackney Es ist ein Klassiker der Kunstgeschichte: Jan Vermeers Bild “Briefleserin am offenen Fenster” aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Dem britischen Fotografen Tom Hunter diente es als Vorlage für sein bekanntestes Foto. &

I’ll be talking at this on Monday.. East End Archive LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY – CASS GALLERY 59-63 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7PFAldgate East 12 Nov – 10am-6pm EAST END ARCHIVE SYMPOSIUM Discussion on the creation of the On-line digital archive of the East End. Speakers include Susan Andrews, David Howells, Mike Seaborne and Graham Diprose, Stefan Dickers, Zelda Cheatle, Nick Haeffner, Tom Hu

This event is now sold out In Conversation with Steven Berkoff and Tom Hunter 26 November 2012, 18:30 To celebrate the recent publication launches of East End Photographs by Steven Berkoff and The Way Home by Tom Hunter, The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop presents a joint book presentation and talk. Focusing on the two photographers’ mutual subject matter, Berkoff and Hunter will discuss their bodies of work which f

Tom Hunter ‘The Way Home’, 2012.   In this book I have set out many bodies of work that I have created over the last twenty-five years, whilst making my journey through the streets of Hackney, trying to make sense of this urban maze and find my way home. It seems strange now to think back to a time of sitting in the pub in Blandford, Dorset with my mate Fred and discussing our nights itinerary of catching the tu