WOOD, Tom

About Irish photographer, Tom WOOD (b. 1951 in County Mayo, Western Ireland)

Tom WOOD studied painting (B.A.Hons.) at Leicester Polytechnic from 1973 to 1976. His photographic work is characterized by a direct, candid view of his living environment. His projects, which often span many years, revolve around people's everyday lives, the classic portrait, situations on the street and at home, and in recent years, landscapes. His style can be described as social-documentary, but follows no fixed concept. His pictures arise spontaneously and are unconventionally composed. In the series you can see an honest and humorous attitude of the photographer. He works with a 35 mm camera, but has also used medium and large format cameras for portraits. Until the late 1980s, he mostly photographed on black-and-white negative film, then on color negative film. For a few years he has also been devoting himself more to landscapes, shooting them with a panoramic camera.[3] He presents his photographs, which are listed with title, location and year, in exhibitions and photo books, always combining old and new images from the archive.

Photo books by and with works by Tom WOOD

• 'Looking for Love' (1989); 'All Zones Off Peak' (1998); 'People' (1999); 'Tom Wood. Catalog volume Galerie im Bürgerhaus Neunkirchen, 2000); 'Bus Odyssey' (2001); 'Bystander. A History of Street Photography' (2001, by Colin Westerbeck and Joel MEYEROWITZ), 'Not Only Female' (2004); 'Photie Man' (2005); 'The Photobook. A History - Volume 2' (2006, by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger); 'F/M. Female/Male' (2011); 'Men and Women' (2013); 'Looking For Love' (2014); 'Mères, Filles, Soeurs' (2018); 'Termini' (2018); 'Women's Market' (2018); '101 Pictures' (2020); 'Facing Britain. British Documentary Photography since the 1960s' (2021, together with works by David HURN, Martin PARR, Tony RAY-JONES, Markéta LUSKACOVÁ, Anna FOX, John MYERS oder Peter MITCHELL);'Irish Work' (2021); 'Snatch out of time' (2022); 'The DPA Work: Photographs of Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital and Cammell Laird shipyard' (2023); 'Landscapes' (planned).

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