Editorial - Tom Wood

We briefly looked in to Toms work last year watching the episode of "what do artists do all day" as an introduction. There is a small section of the film that looks into his photobook "Still looking for love".

To achieve this he spent 3 nights a week in a nightclub over a 3 year period. Its good to be able to see the connection he made with the subjects in a similar way I have, especially at the riffraff event I do regularly.

His style of being right up close and in the middle of the crowds is something I know I happily try and emulate in my work. Where I don't really feel the connection is with most of the images I have seen from the book,he is looking for an almost exclusively sexual context.

I get that it wasn't a music club as such and more what I would have called a discotheque style cattle market. There for the purpose of single people to hook up with each other.The other clue to this would be  the styling of the clothes suggests to me quite a mainstream crowd for the time mainly consisting of upper working and middle classes. This is something I am interested in and have been looking into understanding more about it in my work.

All images from "Still looking for love" Tom Wood - Promo Video "Still looking for love"