Tom Wood - Highfields, Hippies and Strippers (signed) archival materials

Tom Wood - Highfields, Hippies and Strippers (signed) archival materialsSuper Labo 2025 Having finished studying Fine Art Painting at Leicester Polytechnic, Tom had begun to take photographs in his spare time, whilst working in a community centre in Highfields, Leicester. Nearby was North Evington Working Men's Club, where he would often take portraits of people who went there, and the different events throughout afternoons, evenings and nights. On his last night in Leicester, Tom was photographing in the Working Men's

the body and desire

working as unobtrusively as possible

This gives rise to the phenomenon of age equality between photographer and subject

With subjective nuance

which my London-based old friend Mark Holborn had put together from a selection of my previous works

photograms made from her mother’s ashes

but as a lyrical meditation on legacy

Susan Meiselas to Dawoud Bey

The few people in the bar remain oblivious to the scene

registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work

ISBN 978-1-737245-93-3

he first worked as a city planner and then as a picture editor