Tom Seymour

Translating art with stories you want to read

Their Bodies Were Weapons – my feature in The New York Times, an exclusive on Rencontres d’Arles 2019

I travelled to Arles to interview a group of artists who, working behind the Iron Curtain in the 1980s, used photographic self-portraiture as a way to resist the authorities and assert their identity. Published in the Culture section of the NYT in June 2019.

  • Gordon Parks’ The Atmosphere of Crime – The Art Newspaper
  • Where is Kajol? – The Art Newspaper report
  • Lorna Simpson feature in Guardian G2
  • Renzo Piano interview in Moscow
  • Ryan McGinley – Guardian Art and Design
  • Censorship and the Chinese art market – a feature in FT Life & Arts