Tom is a senior editorial strategist for CHANEL Arts & Culture, developing and overseeing editorial strategy across the fashion house’s global arts initiatives and institutional partnerships.

Prior to his career in fashion, he was an award-winning journalist with a specialism in arts, working most recently as the Museums Editor of The Art Newspaper, the journal of record for the art world, and as an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London.

As a freelance journalist, he published in print on more than sixty occasions for The Guardian and The Observer. He also published print features for The New York Times, The Financial Times, FT Weekend, Telegraph and New Statesman amongst others. He has contributed to various outlets of the BBC across digital, radio and television.

He won Writer of the Year at the PPA Awards 2020 and Specialist Writer of the Year at the PPA Awards 2019 and 2021 for his work with The Royal Photographic Society.

Earlier in his career, he held editorial positions at British Journal of Photography and i-D.

In 2017, Tom and Sian Davey co-created Together, an amalgam of photography and writing which exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery for a month.

See tabs for photography, film and arts reporting, branded editorial work and experience in broadcasting, curation and teaching. Illustration is by Hannah Cousins.

To discuss working together, email tom@tomseymourwrites.com.