Tom Seymour

5 days ago | 1854.photography | Tom Seymour |Diane Smyth

Image © Crispin Hughes/Photo Co-op Archive. Courtesy of Martin Parr Foundation. Image shown at Photography versus Thatcher exhibition. Set up in 1990, the space remains committed to image-making and image-makers, and now has a handsome new London home, Tom Seymour and Diane Smyth reportFounded in 1990, Photofusion was part of a radical moment in photography.

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Gareth Harris |Tom Seymour

First published by Aperture in 1965 and reissued this year in a 60th-anniversary edition, Edward Weston: The Flame of Recognition marks a turning point in the history of photography, both as an art form and as a subject of critical inquiry. The book was the New York-based magazine Aperture’s first monograph and emerged from the overwhelming response to a special Weston-dedicated issue.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Joanna Moorhead |Karen Chernick |Sarah P. Hanson |Tom Seymour

The World Press Photo award winner for 2025 is announced today, but there was little air of celebration around Samar Abu Elouf when she arrived at the exhibition in Amsterdam where her victorious shot took pride of place. Its subject is a boy called Mahmoud Ajjour, then age nine and now ten, who lost both his arms in an Israeli attack on Gaza a little over a year ago. When she took the picture, Abu Elouf says, she was thinking of her own four children, the youngest of whom is 12.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Torey Akers |Tom Seymour |Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian

A climate activist who smeared red and black paint on the pedestal and enclosure of an Edgar Degas ballerina sculpture in 2023 was found guilty on Tuesday (8 April) of “conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States” by a federal jury.

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Sarvy Geranpayeh |Tom Seymour |Garry Shaw

Sudan’s National Museum, once the guardian of an invaluable collection of artefacts spanning thousands of years, has been ravaged by looting and severe destruction at the hands of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to initial assessments by the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums (NCAM), the body responsible for preserving the country’s antiquities and archaeological sites.