Tom WOOD

Liverpool

Série Buss Odyssey © courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Women © Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Photieman @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Men & Women © courtesy galerie Sit Down

Design Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Design @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Out from Town Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Out from Town @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Stanley Road Bootle Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Stanley Road Bootle @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

London Road, City Centre Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — London Road, City Centre @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Between Birkenhead and Wallasey Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Between Birkenhead and Wallasey @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Mount Pleasant Road, Wallasey Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Mount Pleasant Road, Wallasey © galerie Sit Down

Pink High Heels Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Pink High Heels @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Maryhill Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Maryhill @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Untitled @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Pink Lipstick Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Pink Lipstick @ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

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.

Family Likeness

Towards Netherton Liverpool, Tom Wood, galerie Sit Down — Towards Netherton © galerie Sit Down

Série All Zones off Peaks © courtesy galerie Sit Down

Walking Through Shoes, 1989. Série Men & Women

Série Termini@ Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Red Head Diagonale,1984©Tom Wood courtesy galerie Sit Down

Série Mères, filles, soeurs © courtesy galerie Sit Down

Exhibitions

2021

Happy Birthday Tom!

SIT DOWN gallery

23.01.2021 – 20.02.2021

2019

Family Likeness

galerie SIT DOWN

11.06.2019 – 12.21.2019

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Mothers, Daughters, Sisters.

Les Rencontres d’Arles

07.01.2019 – 08.25.2019

Solo show

Photo London

15.05.2019 – 19.05.2019

Press release

2017

Solo show

PARIS PHOTO Fair

03.11.2017 – 12.11.2017

Press release

2015

Cynefin, les paysages gallois

SIT DOWN gallery

10.11.2015 – 20.12.2015

Press release

2011

1978 – 2003 : Les années Liverpool

SIT DOWN gallery

05.11.2011 – 21.01.2012

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Biography

1951 Born in the west of Ireland

1973 -1976 Studies at Leicester Polytechnic B.A. (Hons) Fine Art (Painting)

1978 -2003 Lives ans works in Liverpool/Merseyside

2003 Settled in north Wales

Books

2017 Forthcoming

“The DPA Work” (Rainhill Hospital, Cammell Laird Shipyard)

Steidl Verlag, Gottingen (2 vols)

“The Pierhead”GwinZegal, Guingamp. France

“Shopping Market”Stanley/Barker, London

2015 “Looking for Looking for Love” Sorkika, London (Special Edition)

2013 “Men and Women”Steidl Verlag, Gottingen (2 vols)

2011 “F/M”Editions 205, Villeurbanne, France

2005 “Photie Man” Steidl Verlag, Gottingen

2004 “Not Only Female…”(Exhibit Cat.) Schaden, Cologne, Germany

2001 “Bus Odyssey” Hajte Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany

2000 “Tom Wood” (Exhibit Cat.) Galerie im Buergerhaus Neunkirchen/Saar

1999 “People”Wienand Verlag, Cologne, Germany

1998 “All Zones off Peak” Dewi Lewis Publishing, Stockport, UK

1989 “Looking for Love” Cornerhouse, Manchester & Aperture, New York

Personal exhibitions

2017 “Tom Wood Liverpool” House of Photography, Moscow

2016 The Pierhead – L’Embarcadere, 1978-2002, Centre Photographique at Le Pôle
Image Haute-Normandie

2015 ‘Cynefin, Welsh landscapes‘,galerie SIT DOWN, Paris, France

‘Intimate landscapes’, Centre culturel Irlandais, Paris, France

2014 “Tom Wood – Landscapes“ Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Ffotogallery Cardiff

“Women“ Fondation d’enterprise Hermes, Bern, Switzerland

2013 ‘Tom Wood. Britain 1973 – 2012’, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow

‘Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013’ National Media Museum, Bradford

‘Men and Women’Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

2012 ‘Men and Women’The Photographers’ Gallery. London

Galerie Albrecht, Berlin

‘F/M’Le Bleu du ciel, Lyon, France

Le Centre d’ Art, GwinZegal, Guingamp, France

2011 “1978-2003, The Liverpool years “ galerie SIT DOWN, Paris, France

“F/M“ galerie Le bleu du ciel Lyon

2010 “Facts of Life. Photography in Britain 1974-1997” National Museum, Krakow, Poland

2009 Museum 52, London

2006 “HyperDesign”Shanghai Biennale, China

‘Chelsea Reach’The Approach, London

2005 The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark

‘Photieman’Le Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France

Foam Museum, Amsterdam

2004 ‘Ruestrassen’Le Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, (in assoc. Paris Photo)

Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany

Centre de la Photographie, Geneva

2003 C/O, Berlin, Germany

2002 Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany

Stadtische Galerie, Wolfsburg

Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven

2001 ‘Bus Odyssey’Suermondt-Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany

2000 ‘People’Galerie im Buergerhaus, Neunkirchen/Saar, Kunstverein, Ulm, Germany

Thomas Erben Gallery, New York

1998 ‘All Zones Off Peak’Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Galerie F.M. Schwartz/Photokina, Cologne

1996 International Centre of Photography, New York

1989 ‘Looking for Love’The Photographers’ Gallery, London

Joint exhibitions

2014 Été photographique de Lectoure, France (with Matthais Bruggmann)

2012 Mönchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany (with Martin Parr+Antanas Sutkus)

Image Singulieres,Sete, France

2009 Tom Wood and Padraig Timoney, Museum 52, London

2004 Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland (with Larry Sultan)

2003 “Gary Winogrand and Tom Wood” Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne

1996 “Inside Out”Galerie du Jour Agnes b., Paris (with Richard Billingham and

Paul Seawright)

Group exhibitions

2016 “Transiciones”PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid

“At Spectrum”– Brighton Photo Biennial, UK

“British subjects“Centre d’art Gwinzegal, France
2015 “Work, Rest, Play: British Photography from 1960s to Today”Shenzen and

Minsheng Art Museum Shanghai, China

“Eyes Wide Open”Fotografie Forum Frankfurf. Also Berlin, Vienna and Munich.

2014 “Augen Auf!”Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Photographie, Hamburg.

“Punctum:Reflections on Photography”Salzburger Kunstverein, Germany

“Resonance 2011”La Biennale de Lyon, France

“Nothing in the Place” Bunkier Sztuki Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow

& Brighton Biennial, Photo Fringe

2009 “Manners”Focke Museum, Bremen, Germany

“Light Writing”Literaturhaus Cologne, Germany

“Planete Parr”Jeu de Paume, Paris

2008 “Baby”Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam,

2007 “How We Are: Photographing Britain”, Tate Britain, London

“Shrinking Cities” Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA

“Centre of the Creative Universe, Liverpool and the Avant-Garde”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

“On View”Photo London, Old Billingsgate, London

Frieze Art Fair London, (Approach Gallery)

2006 “Closed Eyes”Museum for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark

“People and Places” Museum of Modern Art, New York

“La Boum II” Sies+ Hoke Galerie, Dusseldof

2005 “24 x 36”Leica Gallery, New York

2004 “Wirklich Wahr! Realitatsvesprechen von Fotographien” Ruhrlandmuseum, Essen

“Schrumpfende Stadte” Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

“Sammlung Kunne”Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany

“Relating To Photography”FFI – Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt

“Street Life”Rotunda Galerie, Cologne, Germany

“We go round and round…”, COMME CA Gallery, New York

“Sad Beautiful Life” C/O Berlin, Germany

“L’amour Toujours” galerieXprssns, Hamburg, Germany

2002 “Becks Futures”, ICA, London

“Zipp” Kassler Kunstverein, Kassel

2001 “The Sidewalk Never Ends”Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2000 “Les Photographies Collectionnees par agnes b” Centre National de la Photographie, Paris

1999 “Internationale Fototage” Herten, Germany

1996 “Blindspot”Paolo Baldicci Gallery, New York

1995 “20 Modern British Photographs” Victoria & Albert Museum, London

1994 “Street Photography” Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Selected public collections

Museum of Modern Art New York

International Centre of Photography New York

Art Institute of Chicago

Victoria & Albert Museum London

National Museum Of Photography, Copenhagen

British Council London

Stadt. Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany

National Media Museum, Bradford

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Awards

2007 “Major Production Award” TheArts Council of Wales

2002 “Prix Dialogue de l’Humanite” (Outreach Award), Recontres d’Arles, France

2000 “Year of the Artist”, Arts Council of England

1999 Terrance Donovan Award, Royal Photographic Society

1996 Artist Honorarium, International Centre of Photography, New York

1995 Photography Publishing Grant, Arts Council of England

Short-listed

2002 Awards for Artists Paul Hamlyn Foundation

2001 Becks Futures Award, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1996 The Arts Foundation Fellowship

TV / radio

2014 “What Do Artists Do All Day?”BBC4 UK (30 mins)

“l’Été photographique de Lectoure” Arte TV France 01/08/14 (3mins)

2013 “The Works” RTE Ireland (9 mins)

2007 Tom Wood Deutschlandfunk– DLR National Radio, (50 mins)

2004 “Tom Wood Photieman”– Deutschland Radio Berlin, Interview with Jochen Stöckmann, 7/7/04 URL: http://www.dradio.de/dlr/sendungen/fazit/283249/

2002 “The Talk Show”– TV BBC4, 7/5/02 (Becks Futures profile)

2000 “Ticket to ride”– GranadaTV (38 mins)

1990 “Tom Wood photographer”,The Great North Show – GranadaTV (8mins) 10/8/90

Books & articles

2017 Westerbeck, Colin & Meyerowitz, Joel, eds. Bystander: A History of StreetPhotography Laurence King Publishing, London

2016 Transiciones, Ten Years The Transformed Europe, La Fabrica, Madrid

Franklin, Stuart, The Documentary Impulse Phiadon, London

2015 Durden, Mark, Photography Today: A History of ContemporaryPhotography, Phaidon Publishing, London, pp170-172

Koetzler, Michael, AUGEN AUF! 100 years of Leica Kehrer Verlag, Germany

2014 Punctum, Reflections on Photography, Long Declan, Salzburger Kunstvereinpp86,152-53

2013 Sviblove, Olga Fashion and Style in Photography, Eight Moscow International Biennale pp64-71

Durden Mark, Under the Influence UK and France, pp224-231

2011 Koetzle, Hans Michael, Taschen, Koln Photographers A-Z

2009 Moos, Norbert (collection) Licht Schreiben Literaturhaus, Cologne, Germany pp83-92

2008 van Erp, Hedy & Sikking, Iris Baby (Cat.) Veenman Publishers, Rotterdam

2007 Toennies, Merle Constructing an Emblematic Northern Space underThatcherism in: Ehland, Christoph (ed) Thinking Northern: Textures of Identityin the North of England Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York pp305-324

Williams, Val & Bright, Susan, eds. How We Are – Photographing Britain (Exhibit Cat.) Tate Publishing, London, p155

Grunenberg, Christoph and Knifton, Robert, eds. Liverpool and the Avant-Garde, (Exhib. Cat.) Liverpool University Press in assoc. with Tate Liverpool pp2-3, 54, 55, 76, 77

2006 Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry, eds. The Photo Book: A History vol.2 Phiadon, London, p308

Oswald, Philipp, ed. Shrinking Cities Exhib. Cat. Hatje Cantz, pp140-143,158-161

2005 Moran, Joe Reading the Everyday Routledge London, pp26-28

2002 Kotzle, Michael Lexikon der Fotografen, 1900 – heute Knauer Verlag.

Schwabsky, Barry Becks Futures 2002, cat. ICA London, pp6-7, 66-71

Balkenhol, Bernhard, ed. Zipp, Kasseler Kunstverein cat. Nr. 8/2002 & 9/02