MARTIN BARRAUD CREATOR OF THE TOMMY ICON AND TOMMY CLUB FOUNDING PATRON
Martin Barraud, photographer and installation artist behind the Tommy. Claire Williamson/Little Olives Photography.
Tommy Club Founding Patron, Martin Barraud, is an installation artist and award-winning conceptual photographer. Martin created the iconic Tommy and more recently is helping RBLI in its very successful VE Day Campaign.
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Kent-based artist Martin Barraud began working with RBLI when he created the ‘Tommy’ for the There But Not There campaign. In 2018, hundreds of Tommy silhouettes, manufactured by veterans at Britain’s Bravest Manufacturing Company, began to spring up all over the UK to mark 100 years since end of the First World War. Barraud’s Tommy icon was inspired by a striking photograph of a WW1
soldier standing on the front, taken by English photographer, Horace Nicholls, who captured many wartime images. Nicholls was also commissioned to photographed the interment of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey. His iconic image captures the resonance and simplicity of one of the revered sites in our military history. The idea for this sacred landmark is said to have come from Reverend David Railton, who was based in Folkestone and given leave of absence to
A WW1 soldier at the front and the interment of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey, both photographed by Horace Nicholls.
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