About HOMER SYKES
Homer is a professional magazine and portrait photographer with many years experience. His principal commissions in Britain were for what used to be called the "weekend colour supplements" such as The Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The Observer, You and the Sunday Express magazines. He has also covered weekly news for Newsweek, Time, and the former Now! magazine, covering conflicts in Israel, Lebanon, and Northern Ireland, as well as general news in the UK. Also of course Homer has shot numerous magazine portraits of the famous and not so famous - at home, - Private Commissions Undertaken - at work and at play. During his career as well as his commercial magazine assignments Homer has worked on personal photographic documentary projects. These include documenting traditional British folklore customs, that started in 1970 and completed seven years later resulting in the publication Once a Year, Some Traditional British Customs (Gordon Fraser). Homer is the author, and co-author-photographer of eight books about Britain as well as Shanghai Odyssey (Dewi Lewis Publishing) and On the Road Again (Mansion Editions). The latter, his American project, was started in 1969, while Homer was at college. The photographic road trip was repeated in 1971, the work was then put away for thirty years, and in 1999 and 2001 he traveled once again by Greyhound bus criss-crossing America documenting the ‘down home’ idiosyncrasy of everyday middle America. In 2002 he set up his one-man band self-publishing concern Mansion Editions. To date Mansion Editions has published On the Road Again and Hunting with Hounds. As an award-winning photographer he has never been busier, managing his extensive archive, working on personal projects, and shooting magazine - Commissions Undertaken - and corporate assignments. Homers work is owned by many private collectors and national collections. Homer has been a Visiting Lecturer at the London College of Communication ( University of the Arts London ) for over ten years. Taking group and one to one tutorials with both MA and BA students studying Photojournalism and Documentary photography. Homer now offers mentoring, takes one to one and small group private coaching sessions - How to See Clearly, Make more Interesting Images.
Recent exhibitions:-
The Great British Public - Various. The London Festival of Photography, London. June 2012.
Folklore & Photography; From Benjamin Stone to Flickr. Towner Gallery, Eastbourne. October 2012.
Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera: Grundy Gallery, Blackpool. 2011.
Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2011.
The Other Britain Revisited: The New Society Collection of Photographs, 1972 to 1982: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 2010.
Good Bye London - Radical Art + Politics in the Seventies: Kunstverein "Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst" Berlin, Germany. 2010.
Green Man and Friends 1970's: WPS Gallery, Hastings to coincide with the Jack in Green Festival. 2009.
Unpopular Culture: Grayson Perry selects works of art from the Arts Council Collection. A touring exhibition. 2008.
No Such Thing as Society: An Arts Council Collection and British Council Collection touring exhibition. 2008.
Viva: une agence de photographes: 1972-1982. Jeu De Paume. Paris. 2007.
How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Britain: London. 2007.
For further information, commissions or copies of his books - please contact Homer directly.
To contact me call or email. P: +44 (0)20-8542-7083 M: +44 (0)7836-330403 E: homer@homersykes.com