His new book, plainly titled Irish Work, brings together almost 50 years of images made in his home country, between 1972 and 2019. The book is varied and unconstrained, but still captures what people have come to know and love about Wood’s work over the years, whether the formal elements such as his potent colour palettes, or simply the feeling that he’s getting in amongst it. “During that period in Ireland I was doing all those other projects, so whatever things I was learning from those was coming into whatever I did in Ireland that year,” he says.
Tom Wood’s new book is bringing together his photographs of Ireland. He talks to us about learning about photography from old family albums and finding the necessary distance to revisit older work
