Tom Stoddard is an English documentary photographer. We went
to visit his exhibition at the White Cloth gallery in Leeds. His photos cover
events in places such as South Africa, New York, Sudan, India and China. I
found his images really powerful and thought provoking. Themes of death, famine
and war are apparent in most images.
The gallery was set out really well with quite a lot of
negative space around the images leaving room for thought. The pictures were
smallish in size but this meant you had to get up close to them meaning you had
to concentrate on each image. I also really like the lighting in the gallery,
it was lit rather dimly but the pictures were still viewable because of some
wall lights. This lighting really added to the sombre mood of the exhibition.
In the end I found it to be a fantastic exhibition and it is definitely
worth going and taking a look at Tom Stoddard’s work as its definitely one of my favorite exhibitions of this year.
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