TOM HUNTER GALLERIES:


PERSONS UNKNOWN SERIES

Here, the eponymous ones are everyday folk. Frozen in stasis, and caught in seemingly private moments.

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THE GHETTO SERIES

The title for the series comes from an article in the local paper, The Hackney Gazette, which described the neighbourhood as “a crime-ridden, derelict ghetto, a cancer - a blot on the landscape.”

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LIFE AND DEATH IN HACKNEY SERIES

More overtly than other series, these images convey a bleak outlook, but one which is familiar and fair, and broadly resonant with today's society.

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TRAVELLERS SERIES

The Travellers series was taken over a two-year period in which time I was living and travelling in Double Decker bus I had bought with a friend.

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LIVING IN HELL AND OTHER STORIES SERIES

‘Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?’
— Thomas Carlyle

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DUBLIN BAY BATHING PLACES SERIES

"A great sweet mother? The snot green sea. The scrotum tightening sea… Our mighty mother!”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

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EAST END BUSINESS SERIES

Tom Hunter’s photographs of shops in Hackney and Bethnal Green, east London, capture the diversity of contemporary everyday life in the capital.

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PHEONIX TO VEGAS SERIES

I find America a very interesting place… a place I
love to hate and love to love at the same time.
— Tom Hunter

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SWAN SONGS SERIES

Formal yet poignant portraits of his east London neighbourhood, Hackney, made by reference to its rivers.

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HOLLY STREET RESIDENTS SERIES

The Holly street photographic portraits were taken on the Holly street estate in Hackney as part of a commission by Hackney Building Exploratory in 1997.

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EMPTY TOWERBLOCK SERIES

The empty tower block stands as a symbol of a paradigm failure in UK social policy: the Dystopia and ultimate waste of castle-in-the-air housing projects which were scrapped and abandoned.

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