Tom wood

A new exhibition, Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013, his first full UK retrospective, opens at the National Media Museum in Bradford, on 8 March 2013. Born in Ireland in 1951, Tom Wood has taken photographs almost every day over the last 40 years. The retrospective features116 photographs and concentrates on Wood’s photographs of people, made mainly in Liverpool and Merseyside, on the streets, in pubs and clubs, markets, workplaces, parks and football grounds. Images of strangers, mixed with…

Whether focusing on the workers of Cammell Laird shipyard in Liverpool, or buyers searching for bric-a-brac bargains, Tom Wood transforms everyday life with an unerring eye for the unusual. Here's a selection of his best works

Tom Wood

Tom Wood was in New Brighton in the 1980s to photograph people looking for love (the phrase forms the title of Wood’s 1989 book) – or at least a grope by the bar and a ‘slowy’ to Lionel Richie’s Three Times A Lady. Many of Tom’s images are of the Merseyside resort’s Chelsea … Continue reading "A Slow Grope In 1980s New Brighton – Sticky Nights At The Chelsea Reach"

Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...

From buzzing match days at Anfield to couples snogging during nights out on the Wirral, a new retrospective of Tom Wood’s work highlights his bond with the city

Photographer Tom Wood documented 25 years of people crossing the Mersey as part of his daily commute.

40 years of Tom Wood's photographic work formed the basis of this retrospective exhibition, his first in the UK.

With an established reputation as a photographer of people, Tom Wood’s work has been exhibited and published extensively worldwide. His landscape photography however, is relatively unknown. Adopting an open and expansive approach to the genre of landscape, the exhibition "Landscapes", curated by Mark Durden, presents, for the first time, a selection of nearly 100 of Wood’s extensive and varied pictures made in response to the West of Ireland, Merseyside and North Wales. They will be hung…