Tom Toby Portfolio
For over 15 years Tom Toby has been a prolific Architectural photographer servicing the architectural, development, building and real-estate industries through out New South Wales. Providing images that follow precisely the brief and requirements of the client. Till will often shoot above and beyond the brief giving the client ample resources to work with
Tom Toby is a noted and award winning Food photographer, shooting for a myriad of clients. He is a dedicated artist who expertly analyses the required client brief producing images that are used in high end food magazines, online platforms (social media and websites) and print. Working with the very best food stylists in the industry, Toms images are highly sought after by the most discerning of clients.
Creating artistic content for fashion clients is a wonderful process that brings together all facets of the marketing method. Great clothes, great designers, brilliant art directors, the best of styling, hair and makeup, studio or location studio photography all culminating in high end high fashion photography, that sells product.
Corporate portraiture is such an integral part of a company's or institutions portfolio and public image. Tom takes very seriously the importance of crafting with his clients a portrait that is not just representative of the subject but also the narrative of the company itself. Either in studio or at the location of choice Tom will always take the upmost care in providing a comfortable experience for all concerned. Knowing that most companies struggle with getting their people off the front line where they are most needed, Tom works diligently with the organising representative to ensure that the session flows expediently and according to the schedules outlined. With links to the best of the hair and makeup professionals, Tom is able to facilitate for any and all requirements of the client. Tom utilises the very best of portable studio lighting and can therefore turn any environment into a professional studio for those perfect environmental corporate portraits.
At his essence Tom Toby is a fine art photographer. He has traveled extensively looking for the wonders of this great planet and its people. Imagine just imagine if you can, living and breathing just to find the beautiful, and not being content with finding it but capturing it in all its glory to be admired, loved and experienced, all the while leaving her free, undisturbed and preserved for future generations. An artist exists to create and abhors destruction. to capture only to set free, free in the minds and hearts of those delicately gliding through the imagery itself. All of the images in this folder are for sale through the artist and his affiliated galleries. For all enquirers either email Tom directly or contact the IGAP Gallery.
Crafting a fine art photographic portrait is one of those things that Tom loves to do and derives such great inspiration from. Amazing people doing amazing things in their environment. Magic can only be the result
Since 2006, Bont has been a long standing client of Tom Toby. Tom has completed over 200 briefs for Bont, over this period. Often dealing directly with Bonts marketing managers, Tom is able to produce very precise artwork to be used by the marketing department for all manner of media, both online and print. Bont has an incredibly interactive website and sales platform that is constantly updated and maintained with images of evolving product concepts as well as colour and design variances. Tom is very proud of the artistic and professional relationship fostered with Bont over the past 15 years.
Lifestyle photography has now become part and parcel of the modern company, business and brand narrative. not simply photographing a product but rather showing the social and personal elevation of its user. Tom is constantly chasing the perfect image or series of images to sing the narrative of your brand. Telling your story visually, subtly and above all creatively.
Portraits of the Arbaeen 2016 (Iraq)
These are the portraits taken on the great Pilgrimage of the Arbaeen of Imam Hussein (as)
Upon my first trip to Karbala, Iraq in 2014, for my very first pilgrimage to the shrine of Imam Hussein, son of Ali Ibna Abi Taleb and grandson of the Holy Prophet of Islam, Mohammad peace and blessings be upon them, I was met with a an idea that has transfixed my heart and soul ever since. For I was told in a whisper while tears ran down my guides cheek, that I now stood upon the sacred site where the very angel’s descend and weep at the feet of the great saint enshrined within the mausoleum. I cannot attest that on that day I witnessed heavenly angels, but I stood there and photographed thousands and tens of thousands of human angels who’s hearts were filled with love and sorrow and who poured through the sacred doors, weeping and walking as though their feet but skimmed the ground. I learned at the end of that mesmerising day, that day of Arbaeen (fortieth) that 27 million pilgrims had traversed the path that I came to know as the Hurum of Imam Hussein in that one day. My heart was captured, I gave it willingly, and so I have returned every year since 2014 to photograph and pay homage to Imam Hussein and the millions that come to visit his shrine during the Holy Arbaeen. It has been my life’s honour that I give back every year with my “portraits of the Arbaeen” project. A project that has enabled me to capture over 100 thousand portraits that I post online for the subject to find and keep without paying a cent.