Tom Beard is a photographer and filmmaker known for his intimate music portraiture and a resolute devotion to analog photography.
Free from artifice and manipulation, Beard has carved a distinct aesthetic. Images that are both soulful and majestic. A connection with the moment at hand.
Born in 1986, Beard lives and works in London. He exhibited his first solo show, 'What The Cat Dragged In', at The Cob Gallery in 2012. From his first commission at the age of seventeen, Beard found himself in the thick of the musical explosion that reinvigorated the London scene in the mid-noughties. He was everywhere and he shot everyone; spending his formative years touring and gigging, snapping countless defining images and record covers for the likes of Florence & the Machine, Jamie T, Adele and The Horrors. In an era of breakneck digital advancement, Beard developed a deep-seated devotion to the values and processes of the old school: he depends on real film, old equipment, viewfinders, shutter speeds, the chemical romance of the darkroom.
PALERMO POSTCARD SERIES: Handprinted A6 photographic prints (image size 9 x 9cm). Edition of 10. £50 each.
REVIEW: http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2013/11/29/tom-beard-from-the-ashes-an-italian-piazza-in-london-at-the-house-of-peroni-exhibition-review/