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Tom Hunter’s exhibition of naked Glastonbury portraits to be shown at the Martin Parr Foundation
The Martin Parr Foundation will be showing an exhibition of naked portraits by artist and photographer Tom Hunter at Glastonbury Festival, taken during the summers of 2017 and 2019.
The collection – entitled Where Have All The Flowers Gone – was inspired by Tom’s mother Sheelagh Hunter’s photographs taken on a Box Brownie camera in 1970.
Sheelagh’s images show the Isle of Wight Festival during the Summer of Love, some of which are included in the exhibition. Her stories from that era were a great source of fascination and insight, informing her son’s early passion for photography.
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Photo: Tom Hunter
Photo: Tom Hunter
Tom’s Glastonbury portaits were taken in a makeshift photobooth, in which he asked volunteer models to channel the free spirit of the late 1960s and early 70s, and embrace their personal nudity.
Where Have All The Flowers Gone will open on the same weekend as Glastonbury Festival, where Tom will be returning this year to shoot a new series of naked portraits to be integrated into the exhibition.
Photo: Tom Hunter
Photo: Tom Hunter
Tom Hunter: Where Have All the Flowers Gone is at the Martin Parr Foundation from June 23-July 10. More information is available at www.martinparrfoundation.org.
NB: The images included in this article are censored; those in the exhibition are uncensored.
Main photo: Sheelagh Hunter
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