Tom Wood
Five Days
With Tom

A film by Emmanuel Bonn | 2019

France
en
en
31'

Tom Wood | Five Days With Tom

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Synopsis

Irish photographer Tom Wood, affectionately known as "Photie Man" by the people of Liverpool, his adopted city, needs no introduction. He captured it in an almost obsessive manner from 1978 to 2001. His photographs are a tender chronicle of the daily life of the Scousers, from the market to the Anfield football stadium, through its nightclubs and the seaside resort of New Brighton. In front of Emmanuel Bonn's camera, the photographer revisits these places that continue to nourish his work. Back in his home in Wales, against a backdrop of classical music, Tom Wood invites us to dive into his archives and shares his vision of the medium, his life, and the projects that have marked it. A modest and touching portrait of whom Martin Parr calls the "unsung genius of British photography.”

What you will find in this film

A photographer focused on humanity • Candid shots, in color or black & white • Thatcher-era Britain • Liverpool, its working class, its places of living and entertainment, from yesterday to today • The tender gaze of an insider • A ferry ride to the sound of the Beatles • The advantage of not having a driver's license • The influence of James Joyce • A love for vintage postcards • Publishing and exhibition projects • Mothers, daughters, and sisters • The importance of knowing how to look at a contact sheet • How a print can change a photograph.

Keywords

Reportage & Society Analogue Photography Masters of Photography The Artist at Work

It seems that I’m exploring my perceptions. I’m exploring vision. I don’t know what it means. These are influenced by my expectations, my intuitions and my memories.

Tom Wood Photographe

I’m happy to photograph all the time and live life. […] When I’ve got a camera and I can move around, catch everybody’s eyes, a few words with different people. All sense of thing, I make pictures and that’s better for me than going there and just being sociable.

Tom Wood Photographer

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Further exploration

PHOTIE MAN ; Steidl ; 2005

WOMEN’S MARKET ; Stanley Barker ; 2018

TOM WOOD : TERMINI ; GwinZegal ; 2018

MÈRES, FILLES, SŒURS ; Textuel ; 2019

TOM WOOD : 101 PICTURES ; RRB Photobooks ; 2020

https://tomwoodarchive.com/