Case StudyTom Hunter

Tom Hunter is a London based artist who photographs the people and places of his immediate community. He was the first photographer to show in the National Gallery.

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The Way Home from the series: Life and Death in Hackney © Tom Hunter

MY WORK IS ABOUT COLLECTING stories, historical stories or contemporary stories, and reinterpreting them. I see research as having many functions but the main one is to provide background information. There is theory-based research—the ideas—and then there is the practical side. Some people separate those but I see them as interconnected. The product in my case is the exhibition, book or ...

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