Tom Griggs
Tom Griggs is a photographer, editor, educator, writer and curator living between Colombia and Mexico since 2010. He has a master's degree in photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Griggs has exhibited his photographs internationally including exhibitions in New York, Berlin, London, Arles, Madrid and Belfast. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Stanford University, Harvard University, The Free Library in Philadelphia, The Photo Library Collection in Dublin and La Biblioteca Pública Piloto in Medellín, among others.
Griggs’ fourth photobook, A Creature Obeys a Creature That Wants (Mesa Estándar, 2023), was named one of the year’s best by Mark Power and Alec Soth listed it as a book he’s spending time with in his year end review of photobooks.
Griggs has been a jury member for Critical Mass and The Gomma Photography Grant, as well as a nominator for The Prix Pictet, The Magnum Foundation Fund, BJP's One's to Watch and The Tim Hetherington Trust. He was the founding editor of Fototazo, a non-profit organization that offered photography-related workshops and travel experiences for emerging Colombian photographers.
Web: www.tomgriggs.net ; IG: @griggstom
Courses & Workshops: The Poetics of Documentary Photography