Tom Seymour

Tom Seymour is Editor at Chanel, and was previously an editor at The Art Newspaper. His words have been published in The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Financial Times, Wallpaper* and The Telegraph. He has won Writer of the Year and Specialist Writer of the year on three separate occassions at the PPA Awards for his work with The Royal Photographic Society.

Organ Zida 2016 launches in Zagreb

The eighth Organ Vida International Photography Festival, the largest festival of contemporary photography in southeastern Europe, opens today in the Croatian capital, Zagreb.

13 September 2016

Photographing an isolated Russian mining city built from gulag labour

Days of Night – Nights of Day is a series of photographs of the daily life of a city on the north of the polar circle, a city founded on the forced labour of a gulag, and, despite being integral to Russia’s macro-economy, one of the most polluted and dangerous cities in the world.

9 September 2016

The 32nd Bienal de São Paulo: Live Uncertainty launches in Brazil

Conceived of as a garden, Live Uncertainty occupies the Bienal Pavilion. Seventy percent of its projects commissioned for an art and photography festival that sees itself as “permeable and accessible, participating in the ongoing construction of Ibirapuera Park as a public space and expanding its sense of community.”

5 September 2016

John Latham's ERTH, from 1971

First shown as part of Inn7o – Art and Economics at The Hayward Gallery in 1971, John Latham’s Erth utilised recently available images of our planet from space, pages from Encyclopaedia Britannica, recounting the age of the universe, positioning human existence in relation to what Latham called ‘the whole event’.

2 September 2016