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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

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