Homer Warwick Sykes (born 1949) is a Canadian-born British documentary photographer whose career has included personal projects and landscape photography.

Early life and education

Sykes's father, Homer Warwick Sykes, was a Canadian-born American of English extraction who worked for the

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; his mother, Helen Grimmitt, was Canadian-born and raised in

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. The couple were married in August 1947, but in June 1948, in an early stage of his wife's pregnancy, Homer was killed in an accident at Lunghua airfield. Helen returned to her family home in

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, and the son was born three weeks later, in 1949.Homer Sykes, "Photographer's statement", ''Shanghai Odyssey'' (Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002), n.p. When the boy's mother remarried in 1954, the family moved to England.Graham Harrison,
Homer Sykes
, ''Photo Histories'', 2014. Accessed 23 November 2022. Homer was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. In 1968 he started a three-year course at the

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(LCP), while sharing a house in

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. In the summer vacation during his first year, he went to New York, and was impressed by the work of current photographers – Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Friedlander,

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, Uzzle and Winogrand – that he saw at the

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Life and career

While wondering about a new photographic project, Sykes serendipitously came across a story on the Britannia Coconut Dancers in an issue of ''In Britain'' magazine. This led him to research other local festivals in Britain at the archives of the

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.David Alan Mellor, ''No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection'' (London: Hayward Publishing, 2007; ), 15, n.13. Sykes' photography of these festivals was inspired by that of Benjamin Stone, but he approached them with a modern sensibility and a small-format camera, " ryingto include the unintended participants and to document the unfolding drama in a contemporary urban environment". After viewing a touring exhibition of Stone and Sykes' photography of "festivals, customs and pageants",

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wrote that:

Although these photographs do great credit to Sykes both as a photographer and as a social investigator, it should not be thought that his interests lie exclusively in the direction of barrel parades, beating the bounds, or the Queensferry burryman (who saunters around the boozers looking like a floral dalek on appropriate occasions). For . . . ykes'chief interest is in a more varied photography. . . . At iving us a heightened image of reality Homer Sykes is very good indeed. . . . hen photographing a pageant he seems to have caught the performers rather off their guard – not so much when doing this traditional thing, as having done it, or being about to do it.Colin MacInnes, "Arts in Society: Photo Pageants", ''
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'', 16 August 1973, pp. 404–405.

The photographs also appeared in the book ''Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs.'' In this book (published by Gordon Fraser, uniform with Patrick Ward's ''Wish You Were Here''), Sykes presents one or more photographs of and a detailed explanatory text for each of 81 customs—for example, three photographs (on pp. 105–108) of the annual auction on the first Monday following St Peter's Day (29 June) at the Grapes Inn of the mowing and grazing rights to Yarnton Meadow (or Yarnton West Mead),

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( Oxfordshire). ''Once a Year'' has been described as "a beautifully photographed, tender and often humorous document"; and, 32 years after its publication, as remaining " obably the best study of English folklore and ritual". Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq of

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writes that "Observing his countrymen with humour and curiosity, over several years ykesproduced a fabulous visual archive of a nation in crisis and beset by doubt."Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq,
Homer Sykes: England 1970–1980
, Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau, 2014. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 14 July 2014. Accessed 9 September 2015. (''Observant ses concitoyens avec humour et curiosité, il produit pendant plusieurs années une fabuleuse archive visuelle de la vie ordinaire dans un pays en crise et en proie au doute.'') Sykes went on to photograph the

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, new wave and other music/fashion scenes of Britain.Michaël Houlette,
« England 1970-1980 » par Homer Sykes à la Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau
", Actuphoto, 11 April 2014. Accessed 9 September 2015. Michaël Houlette of Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau writes:

The combination of several people in the same frame characterizes most of the photographs by Homer Sykes selected for n exhibition of his work of the 1970s Often the structure of his images rests on two or three main figures who stand out and reveal themselves by an expression or attitude. There is no overly obvious direction or composition, just a keen observation and a systematic method of shooting: a short focal length, some preliminary observation and a certain English manner, frank and courteous, to come in contact with people that he sometimes photographs at very close range (surprisingly, they also seem to ignore the photographer who is at work). Present at the event, invisible in the image, Homer Sykes made discretion a real trademark. And if it's evidence of knowing how to see, it's the relinquishment of the frame to those he photographs: "My pictures are about people, what they wear, how they look, how they interact with each other, against a background that sets the scene. They are not about me".

After absorbing advice from

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, then a part-time lecturer at LCP who was living nearby, as well as other photographers that he met through Hurn, Sykes moved on to photographing news stories for the '' Weekend Telegraph,

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, Sunday Times,

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,'' and ''

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.'' He worked with various agencies including Viva, and from 1989 to 2005 was with Network Photographers. Sykes also photographed the British landscape for various books published by

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, but found time for his own projects: ''Hunting with Hounds,'' "a closely observed documentation of another set of rituals that define a dimension of the English way of life", and ''On the Road Again,'' photographs of four North American road trips taken over three decades.Homer Sykes biography, ''How We Are: Photographing Britain from the 1840s to the Present,'' ed. Val Williams and Susan Bright (London: Tate Publishing, 2007; ), p.221. When the Grimstone Foundation invited Sykes to photograph

, the city of his conception, he jumped at the opportunity. A high point for the photographer was his discovery that the building on Jiang Xi Lu where his parents lived still existed, as the Fu Zhou building. Sykes's collection was exhibited and published as ''Shanghai Odyssey.'' Sykes has taught in the master's course in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the

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. In 2014, Maison de la photographie Robert Doisneau ( Gentilly, Paris) held a major exhibition of Sykes' work from the 1970s.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*"Traditional British Calendar Customs",

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(Bristol), 1977; Side Gallery (

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), 31 August – 25 September 1977. *"Shanghai Odyssey",

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(

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), 24 May – 20 June 2003. Festival of Photography and Contemporary Art (

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), 2005. *"On the Road Again", Hereford Town Hall ( Hereford Photography Festival), 2002. *"Green Man and Friends, photographs from the 1970s", WPS (

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), 2009. *"England 1970–1980",

(Gentilly, Paris), 27 June – 12 October 2014. *"My Britain 1970–1980", Les Douches la Galerie, Paris. 5 September – 31 October 2015. *"Once a Year – Homer Sykes", Lucy Bell Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, May–June 2021

Other exhibitions

*"Personal Views 1850–1970",

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touring exhibition, 1970. *"Traditional Country Customs" (with work by Benjamin Stone), ICA (London), 1971. *"Young British Photographers",

(Oxford), 1971. *Exhibition of photographs by Stone and Sykes of festivals, customs and pageants, Southampton and Birmingham, 1973. *"Reportage Fotografen", Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Vienna), 1978. *"Il Regno Unito si diverte". British Council,

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, 1981. With

Chris Steele-Perkins Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England, Northern Ireland, and Japan. Life and career Steele-Perkins was born in ...

and Patrick Ward. *"The Other Britain", National Theatre (London), and touring in Britain, 1982.The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society
, Victoria and Albert Museum, 2010. Accessed 9 September 2015. *"A British Eye on the World",

(Rio de Janeiro), 1986. *"Viva, une agence photographique",

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(Paris), 2007. *"How We Are: Photographing Britain."

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(London), 2007. *"No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1968–1987",

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;

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(Carlisle);

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(Warsaw). *"Unpopular culture."

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( Bexhill), 2008. *"The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from ''New Society''",

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, 2010. *"Goodbye London: Radical art and politics in the seventies",

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(Berlin), 26 June – 15 August 2010. With Stuart Brisley, Victor Burgin, David Hall, Margaret Harrison,

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, Peter Kennard,

Jo Spence Jo Spence (15 June 1934, London – 24 June 1992) was a British photographer, a writer, cultural worker, and a photo therapist. She began her career in the field of commercial photography but soon started her own agency which specialised in fa ...

, and John Savage. *"Mass Photography: Blackpool through the Camera",

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(Blackpool), 6 August – 5 November 2011. *"A Record of England." MAC (Birmingham), 2011. With

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. *"Photo 50: A Cyclical Poem". Business Design Center (London), 2013. With Dorothy Bohm, Markéta Luskačová,

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, Brian Griffin,

, Ian Beesley and Paul Hill. *"Country Matters". James Hyman Gallery (London), 11 September – 7 November 2013. With

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, Colin Jones,

Chris Killip Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 – 13 October 2020) was a Manx photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Killip is known for his black and white images of people ...

, Martin Parr,

Mark Power Mark Power (born 1959) is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton.Anna Fox Anna Fox (born 1961) is a British documentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour". In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Career and work Fox completed her degr ...

, Ken Grant. *"Picturing Derry". 2013 Derry~Londonderry City of Culture. The City Factory ( Derry), 31 May – 7 July 2013. With

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, Brian Gill, Clive Limpkin,

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, Larry Doherty, Barney McMonagle, A. W. Martin, Eamon Melaugh, Seán Hillen,

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and

Victor Sloan Victor Sloan Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, MBE (born 1945) is a Northern Irish photographer and artist. Life and work Sloan was born in 1945 in Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. He studied at the Royal Sch ...

. *"The Male Gaze". James Hyman Gallery (London), 21 May – 7 July 2014. With

Bill Brandt Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983)Paul DelanyBill Brandt: A Life was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British ...

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, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith,

Walter Sickert Walter Richard Sickert (31 May 1860 – 22 January 1942) was a German-born British painter and printmaker who was a member of the Camden Town Group of Post-Impressionist artists in early 20th-century London. He was an important influence on d ...

and

Keith Vaughan John Keith Vaughan (23 August 1912 – 4 November 1977), was a British painter. Biography Born at Selsey in West Sussex, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as an intending ...

Permanent collections

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*British

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(London) *

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(Essen)

Books

*''British Image 1: Photographs by Homer Sykes, Claire Schwob, John Myers, Daniel Meadows, Bryn Campbell, Roslyn Banish, Ian Dobbie, and Paul Carter.'' London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975. . Sykes' "Calendar Customs" appears on pp. 4–15. *''The Facts about a Pop Group: Featuring Wings.'' London: Whizzard, Deutsch, 1976. . Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1976. . New York: Harmony, 1977. . Text by

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. About the group

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. **''Wie eine Pop-Gruppe arbeitet.'' Musik erklärt für junge Leser. Hamburg: Tessloff, 1978. . *''Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs.'' London: Gordon Fraser, 1977. . *''The English Season.'' London: Pavilion, 1986. . Topsfield, Mass.: Salem House, 1987. . Text by Godfrey Smith. On the social "season". *''The Village Pub.'' Country Series 26. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1992. . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1996. . London: Phoenix Illustrated, 1998. . Text by

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. **''English Village Pubs.'' New York: Abbeville, 1992. . *''Mysterious Britain: Fact and Folklore.'' Country Series 30. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1993. . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995. . London: Phoenix Illustrated, 1998. . London: Cassell, 2001. . *''The Great Stones of England.'' Weidenfeld Country Miniatures. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994. . On

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. *''The Storm Is Passing Over: A Look at Black Churches in Britain.'' London: Thames & Hudson, 1995. . Text by Roy Kerridge. *''Celtic Britain.'' Country Series 40. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. . London: Phoenix Illustrated, 1998. . London: Cassell, 2001. . *''On the Road Again.'' London: Mansion Editions, 2002. .Peter Marshall, "Cowboys, cars, and the road." In pp. 4–7. ''The Journal of London Independent Photography,'
Autumn 2002 issue
(PDF file). Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Shanghai Odyssey.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2002. .Shanghai Odyssey
" Dewi Lewis. Accessed 10 June 2022. *''Hunting with Hounds.'' London: Mansion Editions, 2004. (hardback). London: Mansion Editions, 2005. (paperback). *''Goodbye to London: Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies,'' ed. Astrid Proll. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010. . Contains a chapter by Sykes, "Grunwick was different", about the

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. *''This is England.'' Paris: Poursuite, 2014. . Published to accompany "England 1970–1980" at

.This Is England
" Poursuite. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 30 September 2020. *''Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2016. . An augmented edition of the 1977 book.Once a Year
" Dewi Lewis. Accessed 8 June 2022. *''Blitz Club Blitz Kids.'' Paris: Poursuite, 2017. . Photographs of the

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.Blitz Club Blitz Kids
" Poursuite. Accessed 8 June 2022. *''My British Archive: The Way We Were 1968–1983.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2018. .My British Archive
" Dewi Lewis. Accessed 8 June 2022. *''Colour Works: The 1980s and 1990s.'' Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2021. Colour Works
" Dewi Lewis. Accessed 8 June 2022. *''Before the Blue Wall.'' ittle Neston, Ches. Fistful of Books, 2022. Photographs of the area demolished in order to create the

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.Before the Blue Wall
" Fistful of Books. Accessed 8 June 2022.

Zines

*''Stonehenge: 1970s Counterculture.'' Southport:

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, 2013.Stonehenge: 1970s Counterculture
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 26 October 2013. *''Working Men: Club and Coal.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Working Men: Club and Coal
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 26 April 2013. *''Blitz Kids: Skins and Silver Spoons.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Blitz Kids: Skins and Silver Spoons
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 26 August 2013. *''Once a Year: 1970s Folklore in Britain.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Once a Year: 1970s Folklore in Britain
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Toff's Hat Flat Cap.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Toff's Hat Flat Cap
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 26 October 2013. *''Brick Lane and Co: Whitechapel in the 1970s.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Brick Lane and Co: Whitechapel in the 1970s
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 26 October 2013. *''A Tinker's Tale.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.A Tinker's Tale
, Café Royal Books. Archived by the Wayback Machine on 22 September 2013. *''Once a Year: Folklore in Britain Now.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2013.Once a Year: Folklore in Britain Now
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Saltaire 1981: Still a Model Mill Village.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2014. On Saltaire, a model village in Bradford.Saltaire 1981: Still a Model Mill Village
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Mexico 1973: Mazatlan and Heading South.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2014.Mexico 1973: Mazatlan and Heading South
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Biddy Boys Ireland 1972.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2015.Biddy Boys Ireland 1972
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Made in Roath.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2015. Photographs of Made in Roath.Made in Roath
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Running Riots and the Days After.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2015.Running Riots and the Days After
, Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''My Britain 1970–1980s.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2015. To accompany the exhibition "My Britain 1970–1980" at Les Douches la Galerie, Paris.My Britain 1970–1980s
", Café Royal Books. Accessed 10 September 2015. *''Sloanes & Rahs.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2015. Edition of 150 copies.Sloanes & Rahs
, Café Royal Books. Accessed 15 October 2015. *''Sir Freddie Laker Inaugural Skytrain Flight 1977.'' Southport: Café Royal, 2021. Edited by Craig Atkinson.Homer Sykes — Sir Freddie Laker Inaugural Skytrain Flight 1977
, Café Royal Books. Accessed 3 March 2021.

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Homer Sykes: Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs
, Luminous Lint, September 2007. Forty of Sykes' images from the book ''Once a Year,'' with shortened versions of the texts. {{DEFAULTSORT:Sykes, Homer Living people 1949 births Academics of the London College of Communication British photojournalists Photographers from London Photography academics Photography in China Street photographers