Tom Hunter (born 1965) is a London-based British artist working in photography and film.
He has won various awards including an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
[2] His work has specialised in documenting life in Hackney, depicting local issues and sensationalist news headlines with compositions borrowed from the Old Masters.
[3][4][5] Of the photograph, which was shot with a large-format camera and printed using the Ilfochrome process, Hunter said: I just wanted to take a picture showing the dignity of squatter life – a piece of propaganda to save my neighbourhood....The great thing is, the picture got a dialogue going with the council – and we managed to save the houses.
[3] In 2010 Hunter screened A Palace for Us, a film he made about the elderly residents of public buildings in Woodberry Down, Manor House, London.