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.

Ellie Davies: Into The Woods

Into the Woods, a new exhibition by young British photographer Ellie Davies, show photographs created over the past seven years in the forests of the UK, exploring the complex interrelationships between the landscape and the individual.

1 July 2016

Interview: Stuart Hall's Giga Project

Stuart Hall first visited the Tar Sands in Fort McMurray, Canada in 2011 and tries to return almost every year since to capture what he terms the Giga-project – the largest industrial project in human history. The process of extracting the bitumen is, according to environmentalists, the world’s most damaging activity. The scale is so enormous that the wound can be seen from space. The oil embedded in the sand lies under 140,000 km2 of forests, equivalent to the size of England. Hall tells BJP how the series was created, and his own pathway into photography.

1 July 2016

Africa's Fashion Tribes and London's Subcultures

A new collaborative exhibition presents work by Ghanaian photographer James Barnor’s analogue photographs of London’s growing multicultural metropolis during the 1960s, and Italian photographer Daniele Tamagni’s photographs of fashion sub cultures in Ghana during the 1950s and today.

24 June 2016

Class and Culture in Modern Britain

As Britain faces up to independence from the European Union, a new London group exhibition uses photography from the 1920s to the present day to examine perceptions of class and customs in our country, encapsulating how modern British identity has been created through social aspiration, multiculturalism, political protest and counter-culture.

24 June 2016

Edward Weston: The body and the Line

A new exhibition compares photographs by the portraitist Edward Weston with drawings by some of the greatest exponents of American Minimalism, taken from the Philip and Rosella Rolla collection in Italy.

22 June 2016