Tom WOOD
Tom WOOD
Liverpool
















Family Likeness














Shipyard




Irish Work








Exhibitions
2021
Happy Birthday Tom!
SIT DOWN gallery
01.23.2021 – 02.20.2021
2019
Family Likeness
galerie SIT DOWN
11.06.2019 – 12.21.2019
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters.
Les Rencontres d’Arles
07.01.2019 – 08.25.2019
Solo show
Photo London
15.05.2019 – 19.05.2019
2017
Solo show
PARIS PHOTO Fair
03.11.2017 – 12.11.2017
2015
Cynefin, les paysages gallois
SIT DOWN gallery
10.11.2015 – 20.12.2015
2011
1978 – 2003 : Les années Liverpool
SIT DOWN gallery
05.11.2011 – 21.01.2012
Biography
Tom Wood, a photographer whom Martin Parr described in 1998 as “the unsung genius of British photography”, is originally from Ireland and has spent most of his life in Liverpool.
Known by the public as the “Photie Man “* (the guy with the camera) so much so that he and his camera have become part of the Liverpool landscape. The artist has been crisscrossing the smallest corners of his city on foot or by bus since the mid-1970s. The latter is the constitutive means of locomotion of his photography as his books “Bus Odyssey” and “All Zones off Peak” testify.
For almost thirty years, the street has been the framework of his photographic research.
This work, nourished by his daily life, is situated between documentary, life experience and visual research. His images, mostly taken with his Leica, alternating color and black and white, reveal the complicity he has with his subjects. He is one of them, lives like them, blends in with them. “He touches the intimate because he does not attack intimacy”, freeing himself from photographic constraints and authorizing himself a true visual freedom.
With Martin Parr, Chris Killip and a few others of the same generation, Tom Wood has largely contributed to the English social photography movement that has developed following the punk explosion in reaction to the Thatcher years.
Press
Articles (selection)
2021
« Je n’ai pas le permis de conduire, je photographie ce qui m’entoure » La balade irlandaise de Tom Wood, Le Monde, November 2021
2019
«Mères, filles, sœurs » L’hommage de Tom Wood aux femmes, Fisheye, July 2019
Photographie : douceurs arlésienne, Grazia, July 2019
Rencontres d’Arles : les immanquables de l’édition 2019, Le Point, July 2019
Photographie : nos 12 expositions préférées aux Rencontres d’Arles, Le Monde, Juillet 2019
Les coups de cœur de Polka aux Rencontres d’Arles, Polka, Juillet 2019
The big picture: Liverpool’s mothers go to market, The Guardian, Juin 2019
2018
Femme des années 80, Grazia, Novembre 2018
2014
BBC News – Photographer Tom Wood’s landscapes
“What do Artits do all day” BBC Four, Fevrier 2014 (vidéo)
Everett, Lucinda, The Telegraph Culture, 5 September
2013
Tom Wood- Britain. 1973–2012, MAMM
2012
Tom Wood’s Men and women in pictures, O’Hagen, Sean, The Guardian, London
Tom Wood’s men and women, Coomes, Phil, BBC News in pictures 10 October
Tom Wood, bus repetita, Ollier, Brigitte, Liberation, Paris, 29/06/2012
L’odyssée de Tom Wood, Poiret, Dominique, Libération, Paris, 30/06/2012
2009
Working Class Hero, Wais, Alain, French, Issue15
2003
Photieman, Hickling, Alfred, The Guardian, London, 26/6/03
Tom Wood : Making Sense, Fletcher, Jane, Source, Iss.36, Belfast
2002
Looking for Love, Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, 13/12/02
2000
Ouverture, Drost, Ralf, Flash Art, Milan, Italy XXXIII, May-June, p109