(born 1996, working living and surviving in London)
Tom Woodroffe’s photographic practice is grounded in a deep fascination with the quiet dramas of everyday life; the fleeting gestures, awkward pauses, and gentle absurdities that often pass unnoticed. His work often sits at the intersection of the diaristic and the constructed, drawing from real moments while embracing the fictional potential of the image.
Autofiction plays a central role in his approach to photography. Like its literary counterpart, Woodroffe’s images weave together fact and fabrication, constructing a narrative voice that is both personal and speculative. For him, the camera becomes a means of shaping memory as much as recording it. His work questions the reliability of memory which itself is porous.
He is drawn to spaces and encounters that evoke emotional ambiguity, tenderness edged with tension, humour tempered by melancholy. By framing the mundane with attention and affection, Woodroffe invites viewers into a world where the banal becomes poetic, and where small moments carry the weight of fiction.
Ultimately, his practice is about looking—closely and often—with the belief that meaning resides not in the spectacular, but in the slow accumulation of minor, intimate details.
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Prints are available in editions of 25 on a pay what you can scale, for availability get in touch via tom@tomwoodroffe.com
12”x9” £100-150
24”x16” £180-240
30”x20” £300-350