tom-seymour

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Michael Smiley’s teenage obsessions: ‘I heard the Beat and came back to Belfast a rude boy’
The comedian and actor on dancing with his mother to Ray Charles, the power of Seamus Heaney’s poetry and how Richard Pryor showed him his future

As told to Tom Seymour

19, Aug, 2021 @1:09 PM

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'You worry you'll be seen as weak': single dads in their own words – a photo essay
From teaching them to ride bikes to overcoming unimaginable grief, Harry Borden’s portraits reveal the intimate bonds that grow between single fathers and their children

Tom Seymour and Harry Borden

07, Mar, 2021 @6:48 AM

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Ten years of photo reportage from Libyan traffickers to Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
On the French island of Porquerolles, 10 photojournalists backed by Fondation Carmignac exhibit their studies of hidden and intractable issues

Tom Seymour

31, Jul, 2020 @6:30 AM

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Lorna Simpson: 'There are days when I cry four times for an hour'
Her incendiary collages of vintage black pinups made her one of the most influential artists of her time. Now she’s battling the ‘insanity’ of Trump’s America

Tom Seymour

07, May, 2020 @5:00 AM

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Photographer Ryan McGinley: 'I was taught to believe in Satan. It scared me'
Before he shot Brad Pitt and Beyoncé, McGinley captured the ‘like-minded weirdos’ he met in New York’s wildest gay bars. As a rare retrospective opens, he talks about those days – and going to church with his mum

Tom Seymour

21, Apr, 2020 @10:13 AM

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The real Mindhunters: why ‘serial killer whisperers’ do more harm than good
The psychological profiling at the heart of Netflix’s acclaimed drama make for great TV but, say experts, it’s better left in the fiction section

Tom Seymour

19, Aug, 2019 @2:44 PM

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Josh Warrington beats Kid Galahad by split decision to retain world title
Josh Warrington narrowly beat Kid Galahad by split decision to retain his IBF featherweight title at the First Direct Arena in Leeds

Tom Seymour at First Direct Arena

15, Jun, 2019 @11:01 PM

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Chernobyl finale review – when the dust settles, it will be considered a classic
The acclaimed Soviet drama signed off with a haunting episode that somehow found a speck of hope amongst the tragedy and decay

Tom Seymour

04, Jun, 2019 @9:10 PM

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'I hid my scars for years ... I thought I was only good for horror movies'
A terrible fire left Vicky Knight physically and mentally scarred. Now a film role as the victim of an acid attack has changed her life – and led her to love her body

Tom Seymour

17, May, 2019 @5:00 AM

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Bruce Gilden: 'In these women's faces, I find my mother's story'
When Bruce Gilden started to photograph the drug-addicted sex workers in Miami, he was confronted with the memory of his mother, who killed herself when he was a young man

Tom Seymour

28, Jan, 2019 @6:00 AM

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Grab your Geiger counter: a trip to Chernobyl's first rave
The nuclear disaster site is being marketed as a tourist destination with novelty gas masks, radioactive ice cream and - now - a multimedia art show with the military

Tom Seymour

28, Nov, 2018 @2:59 PM

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Dog fights and sex parties: the man who photographs Istanbul after dark
Çağdaş Erdoğan captures the explosion of underground rebellion in parts of Istanbul. ‘People have been pushed into the night,’ says the photographer who is now facing jail

Tom Seymour

03, Apr, 2018 @11:30 AM

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