Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter

Tom hunter is a London based artist working in photography and film. His series of photos Life and Death in Hackney paints a landscape creating a melancholic beauty out of the post-industrial decay where the wild buddleia and sub-cultural inhabitants took root and bloomed. This maligned and somewhat abandoned area became the epicenter of the new warehouse rave scene of the early 90s. During this time the old print factories, warehouses and workshops became the playground of a disenchanted generation taking the DIY culture from the free festival scene and adapting it to the urban wastelands. This Venice of the East End with its canals rivers and waterways made a labyrinth of pleasure gardens and pavilions in which thousands of explorers travelled through a heady mixture of music and drug induced trances