We had a visit to the national media museum in Bradford. I
had never been before but was keen to go as I had looked at the website and saw
that it has 8 floors so there was a lot to look at.
The exhibition we saw was Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013. It was a big collection of his work from over
the years. The “looking for love” collection was quite funny to see as it was
shot between 1982-1985 inside a night club that was familiar to Wood and showed
mostly couples kissing and dancing together. I did like the photographs but
thought that I have seen quite a lot of this kind of night club photography and
they are all pretty similar. It was good how it was displayed as they were hung
on the wall as well as smaller post card size photographs in glass cabinets
which looked more personal as if being taken on nights out by friends.
Another one of his collections was “bus journeys”. These
were taken over a period of 20 years in Liverpool where Wood would travel on
the busses across the city and take photographs of the people. The images were
good to see hung on the wall in a gallery because the images are all of people
going somewhere and moving around so as you moved around the gallery it was
like you were there with them.
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