HUNTER, Tom - Le Crowbar

Background information

"In 1995 Tom HUNTER set off from a squatted street in Hackney with a group of friends in an old double decker bus, loaded with muesli, Sosmix, baby-foot table and a sound system.
Fuelled by selling egg butties, veggie burgers and beer, their journey took them through folk festivals in France, teknivals in Czech Republic, hippie gatherings in Austria and beach parties in Spain.
'Le Crowbar Café' became an oasis for a nomadic party community hungry for all night food and a break from the hardcore techno.
Photobook ‘Le Crowbar’ paints a vivid picture of friends on a journey, exploring new horizons and ways of living on the road, in the wake of the introduction of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994." (publisher's note, © Here Press, 2013)

"Whilst still studying Photography at the then London College of Printing, Tom HUNTER missed the opportunity to photograph a rave that ended up in the front page of national newspapers and was discussed in class by one of his tutors as a ‘pivotal moment in the history of contemporary culture’.
This was Tom HUNTER's scene, but he missed it because he was writing essays about other photographers. Determined not to let this ever happen again Hunter started to record the events surrounding him: parties in squatted houses, deserted warehouses and railway arches; the 1990’s cultural shift in music, dance and drugs.
Photobook 'Le Crowbar' is an exciting journey back in time, through the European techno scene of summer 1995 on board of the homonymous double decker bus with HUNTER’s crew." (© Cheryl Newman, in: The Telegraph)

About the British photo artist, Tom HUNTER (b. 1965, in Bournemouth)

Photo books by Tom HUNTER