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.

Chris Steele-Perkins' Teds gets new release for first time in 40 years

Teds, a series of photographs by Chris Steele-Perkins, will be exhibited in the UK for the first time in nearly 40 years at Magnum Print Room, London. Steele-Perkins’ series documenting the uniquely British youth culture of the Teds will be shown alongside eight previously unseen photographs from his archive, and a platinum print of the cover image from his landmark book, The Teds. The exhibition will coincide with the launch of a new, re-designed version of this book by Dewi Lewis, first published in 1979.

12 August 2016

Photographing the Story from a Diary Dating to 1726

In 1726, a diary found on the barren and desolate South-Atlantic island of Ascension. Norwegian artist Marianne Bjørnmyr’s transformation of the diary into a new photobook, titled An Authentic Relation, is about to launch at The Photographers Gallery, London.

11 August 2016

Living through 71 operations… and Counting

Katherina Halser, a young Dutch-British woman has, at aged 24, undergone seventy-one operations, and counting. She talks exclusively to BJP about the award-winning photography that came out of the experience.

3 August 2016

Eva Abeling: "Understanding Myself Through My Dreams"

Eva Abeling was born and raised in Northern Germany, Bremen. Before moving to London, she studied and worked with various artists in Barcelona. She recently graduated in London from the University of Westminster in Photographic Arts. Her project I Thought There Was Something at Free Range Shows Awards was awarded as the winner of the Metro Mentorship 2016, winning a 12-month Metro Mentorship and her own solo exhibition. She talks exclusively to BJP.

21 July 2016

Graham Keen's Rare Protest Photographs of 60s London

A exhibition is to celebrate the photographic career of Graham Keen, who will be 80 later this year, looking back on his little seen photographs of the 1960s in London, a decade where pop culture and political protest collided.

20 July 2016

Ai Weiwei's Journey as a Refugee Through Europe

As a political refugee who lived under constant government surveillance, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei feels related to the growing influx of refugees attempting to enter the EU. He explores the experience of the migrant in a new exhibition at Foam, Amsterdam.

20 July 2016