ARCHIVE FEATURE @tom_westbury
One of my passions is to research documentary photography, I select and curate work over on www.documentingbritain.com . We feature documentary stories, landscape photography and street photography. I loved finding Tom’s work, I get an energy rush when I find a cohesive body of work that I really like, and you can sense the photographer’s vision. Whilst I was editing Tom’s submission, I could really feel the time and effort he spends walking and really looking, documenting everyday life, our built-up environment, the houses and streets, areas that seem mundane, but show us how life looks now. If you are not familiar with Tom’s work, seek him out!
‘New Build’
https://www.tomwestbury.com/new-build
‘Peripheries’
https://www.tomwestbury.com/peripheries
“'I’m a documentary landscape photographer based in Hampshire, UK. Kent. 20.08.2017
I struggle to articulate exactly why I photograph. The best I can say is that I’m fascinated by what ‘place’ reveals about us: the way we live and where things might be heading.
On an aesthetic level, photographs have an uncanny ability to render beauty in the mundane. I find this endlessly intriguing.
I tend to be drawn to the outskirts and the edges; to overlooked and unmanaged places; or to the identikit new developments which spring up in these zones. I also have a soft spot for fading concrete modernism.“www.tomwestbury.com
Documenting Britain Run by Chloe and Alastair founded by Alastair Cook
A creative response to the British Isles by documentary photographers whose collective purpose is to deliver a critical record of the islands on which we live.
© Tom Westbury
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