Tom Wood's vibrant photographs of shoppers at a market in Liverpool from 1978 onwards.
From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of Tom Wood’s work highlights his bond with the city
Capturing the spirit and nuances of the everyday, working class people of Liverpool, Tom Wood spoke with us about his show at The Photographers' Gallery.
Dipping into an archive comprising over 30 years of work, many of these 101 photographs pay tribute to Tom Wood’s mastery of color street photography and his love of humanity in and around Liverpool and Merseyside.
Capturing the spirit and nuances of the everyday, working class people of Liverpool, Tom Wood spoke with us about his show at The Photographers' Gallery.
From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of Tom Wood’s work highlights his bond with the city
Dipping into an archive comprising over 30 years of work, many of these 101 photographs pay tribute to Tom Wood’s mastery of color street photography and his love of humanity in and around Liverpool and Merseyside.
here is something hard to grasp about the lifetime of powerful photography produced by the Liverpool photographer Tom Wood. His pictures overlap with other things that we know. They overlap with other pictures, for a start. Wood does the ‘peculiarity of the British’ like a Homer Sykes or a David Levenson (recently published by Café […]
Photographer Tom Wood's long-term project in Liverpool goes on show at the Photographers' Gallery.
Almost every Saturday between 1978 and 1999, Tom Wood travelled from his home in New Brighton by ferry and bus to Great Homer Street market, just outside Liverpool city centre in the North West of England. He would spend the morning there photographing the mothers and daughters, kids dressed in matching blue and lilac tracksuits, teenagers chatting away with their curly hair swept up into side-ponies, and grandmothers haggling for of a string of pearl necklaces or a second-hand coat. In the afternoon he’d travel on to either Everton or Liverpool football ground, then back on the bus and ferry, taking pictures every step of the way. ”God knows how many photographs I took,” he says. “When I first began photographing in Liverpool I was just overwhelmed by the people and the place. It was an exciting place to be, I fed off the energy there."
Tom Wood was in New Brighton in the 1980s to photograph people looking for love (the phrase forms the title of Wood’s 1989 book) – or at least a grope by the bar and a ‘slowy’ to Lionel Richie’s Three Times A Lady. Many of Tom’s images are of the Merseyside resort’s Chelsea … Continue reading "A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach"
Photographer Tom Wood documented 25 years of people crossing the Mersey as part of his daily commute.
“I was the first to move to New Brighton, and it was by sheer chance,” says Tom Wood. “I studied fine art part-time [a Fine Art Painting BA at Leicester Polytechnic], then went back to the car fact…
Tom Wood’s The Pier Head series of photographs focuses on faces he saw on his daily commute on the Mersey Ferry between Liverpool and the Wirral peninsula. Wood ((born Ireland, 14 January 1951) made the journey to and from his home in New Brighton for 25 years (1978 – 2002). His pictures reveal a man at ease … Continue reading "Riding Liverpool’s Mersey Ferry (1978 – 2002)"
Jadis symbole de la puissance de l'Empire britannique, Liverpool connaît à partir des années 1970-1980 un déclin brutal. Face à la fermeture des usines et des docks, au chômage et à la misère sociale, les Liverpudlians se raccrochent à ce qu'il reste : le foot et une forte culture locale.
Evidently looking for love.
Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...
La série «Bus Odyssey» réunit les portraits des habitants des quartiers populaires de Liverpool que le photographe a réalisés entre 1979 et 1998,.
Whether focusing on the workers of Cammell Laird shipyard in Liverpool, or buyers searching for bric-a-brac bargains, Tom Wood transforms everyday life with an unerring eye for the unusual. Here's a selection of his best works
Photie Man. Photographs by Tom Wood. Edited by Manfred Heiting. Steidl, Gottingen, 2005. 224 pp., 106 color illustrations and 680 d...
Tom Wood sera mis à l'honneur aux Rencontres d'Arles à travers l'exposition Mères, filles, sœurs. Un évènement accompagné d'un ouvrage présentant la série.
Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...
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Tom Wood was in New Brighton in the 1980s to photograph people looking for love (the phrase forms the title of Wood’s 1989 book) – or at least a grope by the bar and a ‘slowy’ to Lionel Richie’s Three Times A Lady. Many of Tom’s images are of the Merseyside resort’s Chelsea … Continue reading "A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach"
A new exhibition, Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013, his first full UK retrospective, opens at the National Media Museum in Bradford, on 8 March 2013. Born in Ireland in 1951, Tom Wood has taken photographs almost every day over the last 40 years. The retrospective features116 photographs and concentrates on Wood’s photographs of people, made mainly in Liverpool and Merseyside, on the streets, in pubs and clubs, markets, workplaces, parks and football grounds. Images of strangers, mixed with neighbours, family and friends.
Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...
Photographer Tom Wood's long-term project in Liverpool goes on show at the Photographers' Gallery.
Whether focusing on the workers of Cammell Laird shipyard in Liverpool, or buyers searching for bric-a-brac bargains, Tom Wood transforms everyday life with an unerring eye for the unusual. Here's a selection of his best works
Tom Wood was in New Brighton in the 1980s to photograph people looking for love (the phrase forms the title of Wood’s 1989 book) – or at least a grope by the bar and a ‘slowy’ to Lionel Richie’s Three Times A Lady. Many of Tom’s images are of the Merseyside resort’s Chelsea … Continue reading "A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach"
In this colourful photo book we see characters jostling through Great Homer Street Market in Liverpool between 1979 and 1999. Many are mothers, clumsily clutching their babies and toddlers as they navigate the crowds, loaded up with bags of new wares.
The photographer reflects on his new 280-page book, collecting five-decades’ worth of images taken in his birthplace
Tom Wood's photographs of ferry passengers on the Mersey in the '70s and '80s.
From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of Tom Wood’s work highlights his bond with the city
Photographer Tom Wood documented 25 years of people crossing the Mersey as part of his daily commute.
Photographer Tom Wood's long-term project in Liverpool goes on show at the Photographers' Gallery.
“I was the first to move to New Brighton, and it was by sheer chance,” says Tom Wood. “I studied fine art part-time [a Fine Art Painting BA at Leicester Polytechnic], then went back to the car factory where I had worked before. Then I found a job as a photo technician at the poly [now Wirral Metropolitan College, where he went on to teach], and we moved there in September 1978.” Thus began a golden age for photography in New Brighton, which lasted until 2003 when Wood moved to his current home in North Wales. In the intervening 25 years, Ken Grant also lived in New Brighton from 1992-2002, studying for a spell at Wirral Met, and Martin Parr was based just 20 minutes away from 1982-1985. Between them the three photographers created a huge body of work on the seaside town, which is based just across the River Mersey from Liverpool in North England.
“I was the first to move to New Brighton, and it was by sheer chance,” says Tom Wood. “I studied fine art part-time [a Fine Art Painting BA at Leicester Polytechnic], then went back to the car fact…
Tom Wood's vibrant photographs of shoppers at a market in Liverpool from 1978 onwards.
Tom Wood spent 24 years photographing people in transit between Liverpool and the Wirral peninsula
Tom Wood was in New Brighton in the 1980s to photograph people looking for love (the phrase forms the title of Wood’s 1989 book) – or at least a grope by the bar and a ‘slowy’ to Lionel Richie’s Three Times A Lady. Many of Tom’s images are of the Merseyside resort’s Chelsea … Continue reading "A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach"
Teenagers in scrunchies, takeaway chips and beans, and make-up sessions ... Tom Wood spent the 70s and 80s capturing passengers on the famous Mersey ferry
Photographer Tom Wood documented 25 years of people crossing the Mersey as part of his daily commute.
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Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...
Tom Wood's vibrant photographs of shoppers at a market in Liverpool from 1978 onwards.
