about
A Bristol based photographic post-production studio delivering high-quality pigment printing, scanning & archiving for visual creators, galleries, publishers and institutions
Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, The International Centre of Photography, Bristol Photo Festival, National Portrait Gallery, Magnum Photos, Phaidon, Martin Parr Foundation, RRB Photobooks, The Royal Photographic Society, Bluecoat Press, The V&A Museum, Cafe Royal Books, The Photographers Gallery, Barbican, Les Rencontres d'Arles, MEP,
Manchester Art Gallery, The Telegraph,
The Observer, The Financial Times, It’s Nice That, Vice, Nazreli Press, The Kitchen Table Club, Guest Editions...
clients
who
Bread & Butter is a photographic production run by the photographer Tom Groves.
After working in Production at Magnum Photos in London then at Martin Parr’s studio as head of Martin Parr’s archive, Tom went freelance in 2011 and has since been assisting photographers in London and Bristol ever since.
He worked alongside photographers such as Martin Parr, Stephen Gill, Steven Joyce, Bruce Gilden, Paul Trevor and Peter Mitchell on a wide range of projects including photobook production, exhibition production, artists’ portfolios and photoshoots.
He helped RRB photobooks digitize the John Myers archive, helping co-produce a trilogy book that covers his entire collection.
A further project was to inventorise, catalogue, rearchive and digitise 50,000 negatives taken by the late Ernest Cole. This then became the ‘True America’ exhibition and book.
As well as helping produce a book and exhibition for Markéta Luskačová at the Martin Parr Foundation, he, alongside Louis Little and Martin Parr, re-edited the Tony Ray-Jones’ archive to produce the ‘English Seen’, exhibition having spent 6 months restoring the iconic images from ‘A Day off: An English Journal, Thames & Hudson (1974)’.
Having helped establish Bread & Butter Studio in 2020, Tom has produced dozens of Exhibitions and multiple books alongside an ever widening range of Photographers. Notable publications include, Lua Ribiera’s ‘Agony in the Garden’, Dalpine (2025) - Richard Billingham’s re-edited ‘Rays a Laugh’, Mack (2024) - Simon Wheatley’s ‘Dont Call me Urban’, Backdoor editions (2025).
The Studio has moved twice and is now larger and firmly based in Old Market, Bristol as part of a wider arts collective. He has sponsored the last 2 editions of the Bristol Photo Festival, supported local photographers and a wonderful local kids camera club, called ‘The Kitchen Table Photo Club’.
He worked alongside photographers such as Martin Parr, Stephen Gill, Steven Joyce, Bruce Gilden, Paul Trevor and Peter Mitchell on a wide range of projects including photobook production, exhibition production, artists’ portfolios and photoshoots.
He helped RRB photobooks digitize the John Myers archive, helping co-produce a trilogy book that covers his entire collection.
A further project was to inventorise, catalogue, rearchive and digitise 50,000 negatives taken by the late Ernest Cole. This then became the ‘True America’ exhibition and book.
As well as helping produce a book and exhibition for Markéta Luskačová at the Martin Parr Foundation, he, alongside Louis Little and Martin Parr, re-edited the Tony Ray-Jones’ archive to produce the ‘English Seen’, exhibition having spent 6 months restoring the iconic images from ‘A Day off: An English Journal, Thames & Hudson (1974)’.
Having helped establish Bread & Butter Studio in 2020, Tom has produced dozens of Exhibitions and multiple books alongside an ever widening range of Photographers. Notable publications include, Lua Ribiera’s ‘Agony in the Garden’, Dalpine (2025) - Richard Billingham’s re-edited ‘Rays a Laugh’, Mack (2024) - Simon Wheatley’s ‘Dont Call me Urban’, Backdoor editions (2025).
The Studio has moved twice and is now larger and firmly based in Old Market, Bristol as part of a wider arts collective. He has sponsored the last 2 editions of the Bristol Photo Festival, supported local photographers and a wonderful local kids camera club, called ‘The Kitchen Table Photo Club’.
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︎ tom@breadandbutter.studio