Tom Black has always been a storyteller. His Irish heritage ensures it. He retired from wordsmithing as a noted writer and editor, picked up a camera, and kept going. His internationally exhibited and collected works explore Rural Americana through rusted and rustic relics, alongside evocative landscapes, travel studies, and abstract forms.
A study of small-town waterfronts and the working vessels that time has left behind. Each frame carries the texture of salt, sun, and long seasons spent in place.
View Gallery →License plates, hand tools, trucks, and tin signs. Objects that have spent their lives outdoors, wearing the decades on their surfaces.
View Gallery →Landscapes caught in patient moments. These images sit with a place long enough to earn it, watching for the turn of weather and season.
View Gallery →Work from the road and the coast. Documents of places passed through, photographed with the same attention given to the places that stay.
View Gallery →When the subject falls away and only the frame remains. These are the pieces of the world that refuse to be named, read instead as pure form.
View Gallery →The odds and ends that don't sit quietly in any one gallery. Signs, surfaces, small finds, and stray frames that still earned their place.
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