Tommy Sussex is a photographer currently living and working in London. The images he makes attempt to render an individual social reality that carries political weight.
His process focuses on self-experience and attempts to navigate that which falls outside of expected photographic reportage, to encompass symbolic gestures and abstracted scenarios.
Sussex is currently developing long-term projects in Eastern and Western Europe whilst shooting for a broad range of commercial clients, including:
Fred Perry, Financial Times Weekend Magazine, Crack Magazine, The Bristol Post & New Statesman Magazine.
Commercial portfolio available on request.
︎ tommysussex808@gmail.com
︎ @tommy_sussex
Recent Press:
“MASS ENERGY” OPEN EXHIBITION AND ZINE PROJECT 2021 - Organiser and Curator
‘Finding a way home’ Exhibition. English Riviera Photography Showcase 2021 - South West Collective @ The Artizan Gallery -Featured Photographer
Grain Photography Hub Photo Café. Featured Photographer. 10th February 2021
Isolate Zine Issue 2
‘Then There Was Us’ - AND Annual 2020 - Selected Photographer (October, 2020).
International Center of Photography, NYC. #IPC Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis (August, 2020) - Exhibitior.
‘Why Now World’ - Interview (June, 2020)
Newstatesman - ‘In Pictures: the Black Lives Matter protests in London’ (June, 2020)
Then There Was Us - Interview (May, 2020)
Huck Magazine - This is 2020: Photos that capture our changing world. Living through history. (April, 2020)
Ain’t Bad - (February, 2020)
Culture Trip - Balkan Brass (2019)
The Royal Photographic Society’s International Photography Exhibition 161 - Shortlisted (2018)
Dazed - The Most Exciting New Phtotography Books (July, 2015)
Vice - Photographing the Ukraine Revolution (May, 2015)
Lenscratch - Our Sincere Toils Online Feature (March, 2015)
Splash and Grab Magazine Issue Two: “ how the next generation of photographers are shifting the way that we look at images. As well as how they are adapting to changing spheres. “ (2015)
Education:
MA Cultural Policy, Relations and Diplomacy - Current Student
Photography BA (Hons) Degree - The University of the South West of England - 2014
Photography Foundation Degree - The City of Bristol College - 2012
Awards:
Winner of the South West Graduate Photography Award 2014 - Fotonow CIC