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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