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
Book Reviews, Photobooks Book review of Tom Hunter’s The Way Home, By Joerg Colberg Oct 25, 2012 “In this book,” writes Tom Hunter in the introduction to The Way Home, “I have set out many of the bodies of work I have created over the last twenty-five years while making my journey through the streets of Hackney, trying to make sense of this urban maze and find my way home.” And: “While my subject has alw
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present 31 October 2012 – 20 January 2013 National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.15pm) Fridays 10am – 9pm (last admission 8.15pm) (Closed 24, 25, 26 December 2012 and 1 January 2013) Today’s photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions that long predate it. ‘Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present’ is
Tom Hunter takes a look behind London’s façades and shows us how life there really is The meticulously composed, painterly tableaux of Tom Hunter (*1965 in Dorset) operate on various levels: for one, he references important paintings from art history; for another, he tells us stories of our time—stories that all take place in the London borough of Hackney, where Hunter lives. What is perhaps his best-known photograph