Tim Smyth, born Bristol, UK, graduated with a BA Honours in Photography from London College of Communication. He subsequently won the Hotshoe Student Award. Smyth’s work is held in several private collections as well as MOMA, Joan Flasch Collection (SAIC), Lafayette and British Art Collection, Yale. Smyth also contributes photography to FT Magazine, Elephant Magazine and The Guardian. His debut publication Defective Carrots, (Bemojake 2013) was shortlisted for the PhotoEspaña Photo Book of the Year Award and Best Books 2014: John Gossage - Photo-Eye. Smyth's 2014 publication, The al Assad Campaign 2008, (Bemojake, 2014), documents Syrian street scenes containing state propaganda prior to the Arab Spring and ongoing civil war.
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
Defective Carrots - Dodo Photo Gallery, Exeter, 2014
My Son's Absence, Spoleto Open, 2011
Vehicles, Son Gallery, London, UK, 2010
Nature of Machines, Rathbone Gallery, 2007
Selected Group Exhibitions
Post-Internet Photography - Lincoln Projects, London, UK, 2017
Like Monkeys on a Rock - The Averard Hotel, London, UK, 2016
Publish / Curate - TJ Boulting, London, 2014
Kaleid 2014 London - The Art Academy, London, 2014
The Life of Objects - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 2014
Site Festival 2014, Stroud, 2014
Exercises in Failure, Son Gallery, 2011
Vehicles, Son Gallery, 2010
A New Decade of Photography, Son Gallery, 2010
Polski Sklep, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, 2008
Selected Publications
2017
Dinner for One - FT Magazine, 12/08/17
2015
London Calling - British Journal of Photography, June Issue
Cheryl Newman, Human, Nature and The World - Raw View Magazine Issue no.2
Projects, ‘In Your Absence’ - British Journal of Photography, May issue
The Debated Index - Yet Magazine, Issue no.7
2014
The al Assad Campaign 2008, Bemojake
2013
Defective Carrot, Bemojake
Picture of the Week, Guardian Weekend, 9/11/13
2011
Excercises in Failure, Exhibition Catalogue, Son Gallery
2010
Vehicles, Exhibition Catalogue, Son Gallery
2007
Nature of Machines, HotShoe Student Award, HotShoe Magazine
Collections
Joan Flasch Collection (SAIC)
MoMA
Lafayette
British Art Collection, Yale
Talks / Events
2015
Calm Before the Storm, P21 Gallery, London, UK
2014
Defective Carrots - Book Launch, Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK
Awards
- Best Books 2014: John Gossage - Photo-Eye
- Photo Book of the Year Award, Shortlist, 2014 - PhotoEspaña
- HotShoe Magazine Student Award, 2007
Credit
Design — Studio Thomas
Build — Territories