Tom Seymour
Tom Seymour is an award-winning journalist, lecturer, strategist and curator. Before pursuing his freelance career, he was Senior Editor for CHANEL Arts & Culture. He has also worked at The Art Newspaper, University of the Arts London and the British Journal of Photography and i-D. He has published in print for The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, The Financial Times and Telegraph among others. He won Writer of the Year in 2020 and Specialist Writer of the Year in 2019 and 2021 at the PPA Awards for his work with The Royal Photographic Society. In 2017, Tom worked with Sian Davey to co-create Together, an amalgam of photography and writing which exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Latest articles by Tom Seymour
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Sharjah Biennial 14 is raising the emirate’s cultural cachet
Themed ‘Leaving the Echo Chamber’, the 14th edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation-driven initiative presents over 60 major new commissions
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Robert Mapplethorpe: the young wanderer’s early years
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Philippe Parreno combines 20 years of footage to create ‘film of films, a seance of cinema’
The French artist premieres a new feature-length film at the 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam, reflecting two decades of filmmaking in the eye of the international art world
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The dissolving mirages of photographer Jack Davison
After a time-honoured road-trip across America, the young artist from Essex has quickly emerged as one of the leading portrait photographers in the UK
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Mike Nelson fashions a sculptural collage of Britain’s industrial age
Part salvage yard, part sculpture court, the installation artist’s commission for Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries brings alive the zenith of British industry
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Renzo Piano’s GES-2 is a site of wonder
The GES-2's building site in Moscow is so glorious the half-constructed structure has already got the design world talking
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Fukushima forever: a portrait of absence and uncertainty
Almost a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, Giles Price photographs those who dare to return in a poignant new book
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Office KGDVS's Tim van Laere Gallery prepares for April opening in Antwerp
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Deep web: Tomás Saraceno mines the symbolism of spiders at Palazzo Strozzi
In ‘Aria’, his latest intervention at Palazzo Strozzi, Tomás Saraceno explores environmentalism and urban potential through the ‘wisdom’ of spiders
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Japanese architecture, craft and Modernism meet in Philadelphia
A new exhibition in Philadelphia explores the relationship between Shofuso House, a piece of 17th century-style Japanese architecture located in the city's West Fairmount Park, and Modernism through the connections between architect Junzo Yoshimura, woodworker George Nakashima, designer Noémi Pernessin Raymond and architect Antonin Raymond
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Edgar Martins’ photobook shows prisoners fear of being forgotten – by not showing them
The twin-publication What Photography & Incarceration have in Common with an Empty Vase reveals a new dimension to British prison HM Birmingham, its inmates and their families
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Jenny Holzer’s piercing beacons of truth light up Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Curated by Petra Joos in collaboration with the artist, Holzer’s largest survey to date highlights Frank Gehry’s architecture through site-responsive installations
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The darkness of photojournalist Don McCullin explored in Tate Britain retrospective
The iconic British war photographer reveals the personal toll his photographs have taken as a major survey spanning his six decade-long career opens in London
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Bruce Gilden on the art of street photography and his pursuit of good portraits
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Edward Burtynsky surveys the devastating scale of man’s footprint on the planet
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