Dipping into an archive comprising over 30 years of work, many of these 101 photographs pay tribute to Tom Wood’s mastery of color street photography and his love of humanity in and around Liverpool and Merseyside.

Technology has made cultivating relationships easier, but also shallower.

A new exhibition, Tom Wood: Photographs 1973-2013, his first full UK retrospective, opens at the National Media Museum in Bradford, on 8 March 2013. Born in Ireland in 1951, Tom Wood has taken photographs almost every day over the last 40 years. The retrospective features116 photographs and concentrates on Wood’s photographs of people, made mainly in Liverpool and Merseyside, on the streets, in pubs and clubs, markets, workplaces, parks and football grounds. Images of strangers, mixed with…

Tom Wood

County Mayo-born photographer Tom Wood has been photographing his country for almost half a century.

Photographer Tom Wood's most celebrated work was taken in Liverpool and the Wirral between 1978 and 2001, the majority of which were captured...

Photographer Tom Wood's long-term project in Liverpool goes on show at the Photographers' Gallery.

“I was the first to move to New Brighton, and it was by sheer chance,” says Tom Wood. “I studied fine art part-time [a Fine Art Painting BA at Leicester Polytechnic], then went back to the car fact…