Tom Barnes

Before lockdown I had the pleasure of shooting the NHS staff at St Georges hospital for the latest series of 24 Hours in A&E for Channel 4. This is the third series I have shot for the channel and every time it’s a privilege to meet new members of the team as well as catching up with the staff I had met before. One of…

I’m delighted to tell you I have just received multiple Graphis awards for my new personal projects. I received one gold award, two silver awards and an honourable mention. The Gold award for was for a photograph from the Pemulung project (view it here) which is a series of portraits of scavengers on Indonesia’s largest landfills. The silver awards were for another photograph from…

I was, as I’m sure a lot of you are, utterly sick of endless chargers and cables. A mess of wires that always seem to get tangled and it always ends up looking like Medusa on a bad hair day, so I decided to create my own custom charger board. I’ve tried various things over the years, I’ve tried to hide them in drawers,…

In September myself and my assistant Morgan flew to the USA to take portraits at Wasteland Weekend festival, a fully immersive post apocalyptic festival in the Mojave Desert. The full project gallery is here with the finished portraits. The images below are extra shots from the festival I took while walking round, separate from the portraits you can see more of the vehicles and…

Escorted on to Tower Green by an armed guard I was there to photograph the highest-ranking members of the Yeoman Warders, better known as the Beefeaters for Channel 5. Shooting quickly, my assistant and I shot eight different setups in an hour, running from one to the next to meet the next Yeoman Warder. Known more commonly as the beefeaters their full title is…

I took a short flight over to Milan to shoot the legendary Metallica for a Kerrang! magazine cover. We landed, and the heavens opened, drenching everything. I had a small dual studio set up backstage at the 85,000 capacity sold-out venue. After I’d set up, I took a break and grabbed some food. I’d been told by an old friend of mine to ask…

I popped down to the south coast to photograph the father and son combination of Nick and Harris Reed for The Sunday Times Magazine. Nick is an Oscar-winning documentary producer, one of the British Hollywood elite, and Harris is a fashion designer whose designs have been worn by Harry Styles, Naomi Campbell and Cara Delevigne. We ran about for an hour and threw about…

“Hey man, I have to stop this shoot.” The words no photographer ever wants to hear – unless, it’s Duff Mckagan who follows it up with this “you look like a guy who enjoys a joke…” Duff then proceeded to reel off a string of excellent gags, I fired back some of my own, and we riffed with the jokes for a good forty…

I had the pleasure of shooting Japanese band Babymetal for the cover of Kerrang. It was great meeting their crew and working through ideas for the shoot with the world exclusive of their new reduced lineup and new outfits. Moa-metal and Su-metal were incredibly polite and fun to work with,  I think they were impressed with my incredibly basic Japanese. We chatted about how…

I’ll get to the Secret Teacher post but first… Welcome to the new blog, I felt that there were so many shots and behind the scenes bits that I was shooting and didn’t have an outlet for so, I created this new blog. I shoot a lot, be it personal and commissions so I will hopefully be writing about the most exciting jobs here…