호머 사이크스(1949년 ~ )는 캐나다의 사진작가다. 사이크스의 아버지인 호머 워릭 사이크스는 캐나다 태생의 영국계 미국인이었으며, 상하이에서 중국 항공 회사를 위해 일했다. 그리고 그의 어머니 헬렌 그리미트는 홍콩에서 태어나고 자란 캐나다인이었다. 두 사람은 1947년 8월에 결혼했지만, 1948년 6월, 아내의 임신 초기에, 아버지 호머는 룽화 비행장에서 사고로 사망했다. 그 후, 헬렌은 밴쿠버에 있는 그녀의 가족이 있는 집으로 돌아갔고, 그 아들은 3주 후에 태어났다. 1954년 호머의 어머니가 재혼했을 때, 그 가족은 영국으로 이주했다. 그 후, 1968년에 그는 세인트 존스의 집을 함께 쓰면서 런던 인쇄 대학에서 3년 과정을 시작했다. 첫해 여름 방학에 그는 뉴욕에 갔다. 그리고 그는 현대 미술관에서 보았던 카르티에 브레송, 데이비드슨, 프리드랜더, 프랭크, 우즐, 위노그란트 등 현재 사진작가들의 작품에 깊은 인상을 받았다.
∙ Pages - 36 pages
∙ Dimension - 140 x 200 mm
∙ Weight - 60 g
∙ Publisher - Cafe Royal Books
Homer Warwick Sykes (born 1949) is a Canadian-born British photographer. Sykes's father, Homer Warwick Sykes, was a Canadian-born American of English extraction who worked for the China National Aviation Corporation in Shanghai. And his mother, Helen Grimmitt, was Canadian born and raised in Hong Kong. The pair were married in August 1947, but in June 1948, in an early stage of his wife's pregnancy, Homer was killed in an accident at Lunghua airfield. After that, Helen returned to her family home in Vancouver, and the son was born three weeks later. When the boy's mother remarried in 1954, the family moved to England. Sykes was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. After that, in 1968 he started a three-year course at the London College of Printing, while sharing a house in St John's Wood. In the summer vacation during his first year, he went to New York. And was impressed by the work of current photographers - Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Friedlander, Frank, Uzzle and Winogrand - that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art.
Homer Warwick Sykes (born 1949) is a Canadian-born British photographer. Sykes's father, Homer Warwick Sykes, was a Canadian-born American of English extraction who worked for the China National Aviation Corporation in Shanghai. And his mother, Helen Grimmitt, was Canadian born and raised in Hong Kong. The pair were married in August 1947, but in June 1948, in an early stage of his wife's pregnancy, Homer was killed in an accident at Lunghua airfield. After that, Helen returned to her family home in Vancouver, and the son was born three weeks later. When the boy's mother remarried in 1954, the family moved to England. Sykes was a keen photographer as a teenager, with a darkroom both at home and at boarding school. After that, in 1968 he started a three-year course at the London College of Printing, while sharing a house in St John's Wood. In the summer vacation during his first year, he went to New York. And was impressed by the work of current photographers - Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Friedlander, Frank, Uzzle and Winogrand - that he saw at the Museum of Modern Art.