About HOMER SYKES

Homer is a professional magazine 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, West Africa 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, 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 country customs that started in 1970 and completed seven years later resulting in the publication Once a Year, Some Traditional British Customs (Gordon Fraser). Photographs from this body of work were included in the Tate Britain exhibition, How We Are: Photographing Britain, (2007) and in addition two touring shows currently in Britain, Unpopular Culture and No Such Thing as Society. 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 which coincided with the debate in parliament proposing the ban on hunting with dogs. As an award-winning photographer he has never been busier, managing his extensive archive, working on personal projects, shooting magazine and corporate assignments, as well as teaching photojournalism part time at his alma mater the London College of Communication. Homers work is owned by many private collectors and public museums. Some work was on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London in their History of Photography Gallery in 2008. For further information, commissions or copies of his books - please contact Homer directly.

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