UNHERALDED STORIES SERIES

The stage on which we move begins already before but is as near as your own front door. And what lies beyond can be made and reshaped as never before. This is the subject of Tom Hunter’s art.

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A PALACE FOR US - FILM

This is a magical film. It weaves the memories of people who grew up in east London and have lived on the estate since it opened into a silvery thread of meaning illuminated by dramatisations of their experiences filmed in the aged, but dignified, Woodberry Down buildings and public spaces.

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MUSEUM OF LONDON COMMISSION

In this project I wanted to create photographs, which talk about the incredible history of London through its fashions and tastes.

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PRAYER PLACES SERIES

Prayers from East London.

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RIDLEY ROAD MARKET SERIES

London E8.

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PERSONS UNKNOWN SERIES

Here, the eponymous ones are everyday folk. Frozen in stasis, and caught in seemingly private moments.

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THE GHETTO SERIES

The title for the series comes from an article in the local paper, The Hackney Gazette, which described the neighbourhood as “a crime-ridden, derelict ghetto, a cancer - a blot on the landscape.”

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LIFE AND DEATH IN HACKNEY SERIES

More overtly than other series, these images convey a bleak outlook, but one which is familiar and fair, and broadly resonant with today's society.

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LIVING IN HELL AND OTHER STORIES SERIES

‘Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?’
— Thomas Carlyle

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DUBLIN BAY BATHING PLACES SERIES

"A great sweet mother? The snot green sea. The scrotum tightening sea… Our mighty mother!”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

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EAST END BUSINESS SERIES

Tom Hunter’s photographs of shops in Hackney and Bethnal Green, east London, capture the diversity of contemporary everyday life in the capital.

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PHOENIX TO VEGAS SERIES

I find America a very interesting place… a place I
love to hate and love to love at the same time.
— Tom Hunter

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SWAN SONGS SERIES

Formal yet poignant portraits of his east London neighbourhood, Hackney, made by reference to its rivers.

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HOLLY STREET RESIDENTS SERIES

The Holly street photographic portraits were taken on the Holly street estate in Hackney as part of a commission by Hackney Building Exploratory in 1997.

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EMPTY TOWERBLOCK SERIES

The empty tower block stands as a symbol of a paradigm failure in UK social policy: the Dystopia and ultimate waste of castle-in-the-air housing projects which were scrapped and abandoned.

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