Tom Pitts

Tom was born and raised in the United Kingdom and lived there throughout his childhood until shortly after his graduation from Cardiff University with a degree in Business. From 2007 until 2020, he lived in various countries within the Middle East for work, and it was here that he discovered his passion for both travel and photography. 

Initially photography was a means of documenting his life and travels with his wife and young family. Given the strict privacy laws in the Middle East, he was unable to explore street photography where he lived at the time. However, this changed when Tom moved to London in 2020, and once the Covid pandemic had subsided he was able to start practising street photography from 2022. 

Since then, Tom has pursued street photography with a passion and has continued to combine that with travel to locations such as Istanbul, Kolkata, and Lisbon where he has photographed extensively. 

Tom was recently a winner of the street photography category of the 2023 Hasselblad Masters, and his winning series ‘The Commute’ was chosen from over 80,000 global entrants. As part of winning the title of a Hasselblad Master, Tom was sponsored to undertake a project which is due to be published by Hasselblad in late 2024 as part of collective publication of all the category winner’s work.