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Tom Groves
The works are from an ongoing series Shallow Water Blackout 2025 which engages with everyday experiences that appear at once familiar and otherworldly. Through fragmentary views of bodies and objects, the photographs seek to unsettle straightforward interpretation. By inviting a slower encounter with the image, the work aims to cultivate a sense of pleasure within the strange and the resistant, moments that are at once disquieting and affirming of life’s perpetual excess.
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Today’s contributing artist is Tom Groves.

From the London-based artis we present a project titled ‘Like a Prayer.’ This collection of analog photographs is a part of a larger body of work that takes its inspiration from British fetish archives. Groves allows the uncontrollable to exist and resound in a controlled environment. And yet, it is not an attempt at suppression, neither inventory nor creating an encyclopedia of kinks. There is a genuine artistic curiosity and impulsive playfulness that took over this project.

Follow the artist: @tomgrvs
Read the full feature on our website and in our new issue (free via link in bio).
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Tom Groves @tomgrvs

Tom’s work explores the relationships between desire, abstraction and the material world. Working across staged and observational image-making, his practice draws on still life, the body, and domestic space to examine how meaning emerges through surface, gesture, and encounter. He aims to treat bodies and objects as equivalent elements within the frame, disrupting fixed hierarchies between subject and object. Influenced by fetish imagery and modernist abstraction, his work engages with the tensions between control and its resistance, intimacy and distance, clarity and ambiguity. Rather than resolve meaning, he tries to sustain a space of excess and uncertainty, where interpretation remains open and contingent.

LIKE A PRAYER

See full statement in comments below.

Submissions now open. Link in bio.

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🐍 shot by @tomgrvs 🌟

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Featured Submissions from Neonate 2026 Open Call

We are looking for both amateur and professional photographers who are pushing the boundaries of the medium to explore newborn personal narratives, inspired visual languages that reflect the complexities of contemporary life.

Images:
1+2 "Our wild lives" by
Ayline Olukman @aylineolukman
3+4 "The Tender Relation" by Tom Groves @tomgrvs
5+6 "Fragmented Reality" by Erik Mace @erik.mace
7+8 "We Will Not be Stopped" by Marcel Top @marceltoptop

Submit your work by March 8

More info and apply via: Link in bio

We look forward to seeing your work!

#opencallforartists
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#callforentries
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Here we are✨️ with the collective book, titled " Contemporary Photography Around the World"! It showcases contemporary photographers by the participants selected through the open call, which deadline was november 30.

From today until February 24th, the selected artists can order the book at a discount price through the link on the website.
All images have been paired based on subject matter, composition or chromatic coherence.

For any further information about the book, check the website and feel free to email us or send a direct message on Instagram.

Thank you and have a great day!✨️
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Open Call! Last 15 days to submit your work for our fifth collective book! • Link in bio! Submissions are made ONLY through our website’s dedicated page where you will find the full information regarding the call. Help us spread the word!

Our Open Call is for ALL visual arts!

We will share our favorite submissions on social media throughout and after the call even if they don’t make it in the book! Here’s another batch! 🖤

Follow @zone.editions, dedicated to our books and a safe backup for our main feed. 📚

#OPENCALL #THEZONEZINE

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Tom Groves is an artist living in London and working in the medium of analogue photography. Alongside his creative practice, Tom works in Higher Education. He was the Head of the Art History Department at the City and Guilds of London Art School between 2010 and 2024 and is currently working for the Art Academy. Tom is employed by Goldsmiths College as the External Examiner for the BA in Fine Art at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore. He also works for Block336, an artist-run gallery space and studio provider developing a residency programme for Disabled artists.

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Tomorrow we’re opening our very first exhibition - Seen and Unseen!
We’re excited to share the work of 27 wonderful artists, and we truly feel it’s going to be amazing.

It’s been an intense and inspiring month. We received more than 130 submissions from all around the world for our open call.
Thank you to everyone who took part.

See you tomorrow!

photo by @tomgrvs

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Meet the artists whose work features in ´The Edge of Knowing: Art and Uncertainty´

The artists whose work features in this exhibition are: Amanda Lebus, Cheng Xie, Claire Manners Wood, Fumika Tani, Graham Keddie, Jacob Yan, Joumana Medlej, Katy Phillipps, Kseniia Chumakova, Lewis Andrews, Mark Cypher, Monakova Dzhavgarat, Rachel Letchford, Rosalind Stoddart, Sevda Demir, Seyoon Kim, Stefani Ruprecht, Tina Mohindra, Tom Groves, Vanessa de Largie, Yimou Huang, Yingting Lu.
Join us as we journey into the fragile threshold of not-knowing, where art becomes inquiry and mystery transforms into creative force.

🌐 Explore the exhibition: https://www.cistaarts.com/groupexhibitions/theedgeofknowingartanduncertainty

#CistaArts #OnlineExhibition #ContemporaryArt #TheEdgeOfKnowing #ArtAndUncertainty #VisualPhilosophy #GlobalArtPlatform #TransculturalArt #ArtBeyondBorders #ArtisticInquiry #LiminalArt #PhilosophicalArt

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A small selection of photographs from latest submissions! #thezonezine

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Hiroshi Sugimoto @hayward.gallery 🖤

#sugimoto #hiroshisugimoto #haywardgallery #londonart #contemporaryphotography

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