Tom worked in the music and fashion industry before moving to photojournalism in the late 1980s. As a staff photographer on the then newly launched Independent newspaper Tom worked across its titles specialising in photo essays from the UK and abroad, travelling to Bosnia, Burma, Sudan and Kosovo among many others. Much of his career has been as a freelance, covering Barak Obama’s first election and the wars in Syria, Kashmir , Iraq and Afghanistan. He has recently been covering the turbulent politics of the UK.

Mark Power has published 11 books: The Shipping Forecast(1996), a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports; Superstructure (2000), a documentation of the construction of London’s Millennium Dome; The Treasury Project (2002), about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument: 26 Different Endings (2007), which depicts those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z, a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital; …

A critique evening with an external assessor and an open theme.

More details will be publisiced on this page in the next few days.

Mark presented a great deal of his work to us last year, mostly his commercial work. He didn’t have time to show us the full extent of portfolio. So this year we have been pleased to re-invite him to give us more of his personal work . He has been shooting professionally since the mid 1980s and his later work features many genres – including photojournalism, street photography, and more recently still life images of flowers.