Tom Butler | The Times Record
August 11, 2022 | Maria Skillings
A Photographer Who Hates Photography Featured at Woolwich Gallery
British-born artist Tom Butler has a bone to pick with photography.
Believing photography alters the human memory, Butler aims to challenge viewers of his work by both revealing and concealing a photograph’s subject, exposing the journey of the paper image itself through rubbings, paintings and bronze casts. Some of that art will be on display during a show opening this Saturday in Woolwich.
“My elevator pitch for the whole thing is as human beings our brains are such extraordinarily complex things, I don’t think we fully understand what it is when we look at a photograph,” Butler said.
