Tom is an award-winning journalist, editor and strategist with a specialism in arts.

Prior to his freelance career, he was the Senior Editor for CHANEL Arts & Culture, overseeing editorial strategy across the fashion house’s global arts initiatives and institutional partnerships.

Before CHANEL, he worked as the Museums Editor of The Art Newspaper, as an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London and at British Journal of Photography and i-D.

He has published in print on more than sixty occasions for The Guardian and The Observer. He has 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.

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 writing on photography, film and arts, branded editorial work and experience in broadcasting, curation and teaching. Illustration is by Hannah Cousins.

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