Tom Pope
Over the Edge
My photographic practice embraces the performative act in order to critique the discourse between a time-based photography and a notion of event. The utilizing of performed photography sees its two main elements; a photographic record of an event and the event itself amalgamated. Subsequently the resulting performative photograph resists truth through the blurring of fact and fiction. Instead of an objective document, we create a vague and unclear document that must be approached from a subjective perspective. Combining this strategy with the figure of repetition we see a character suspended within space as he translates his unbridled demeanour into absurd actions; actions that result in ambiguous, gravity defying photographs. In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge photographed his mammoth plate panorama of San Francisco. 2008 celebrates the 130th anniversary of Muybridge's panorama and date that I re-photographed the panorama on the original site, employing the largest Polaroid camera in the world; the Polaroid 20x24.
James Aldred • Natalie Bloor • Richard Bradley • Serena Brook-Hatch • William De Labat • James Eadweard Doyle • Adam Henry • Kirsty Hougham • Amy Husband • Stig Jensen • Ed Kulakowski • Alex Long • Owen Martin • Linda Oesthagen • Tom Pope • Alan Rowlette • Stephen Sidlo • Ida Sorknes • Adam Vaughan • Laura Walker •
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Brighton
BA (Hons) Editorial Photography
Camberwell College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
University of Chester
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art and Design
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
IADT Dun Laoghaire
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography
University College Falmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
University College Falmouth
MA Photography
Glasgow School of Art
BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography
University of Gloucestershire Cheltenham
BA (Hons) Photography
London College of Communication
Graduate Diploma Digital Lens Based Image-Making
London College of Communication
MA Photography
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Photographic Arts
University of Wales, Newport
BA (Hons) Documentary Photography
University of Portsmouth
BA (Hons) Photography
Central Saint Martins
MA Communication Design - Photography Route
Swansea Metropolitan University
BA (Hons) Photography in the Arts / Photojournalism