Tom Pope’s work has been influenced by other Artists work, some of these include Vito Acconi, Erwin Wurm and Nikki S Lee. These artists influenced Tom’s work as a performance photographer. When Tom is out on a shoot he gets inspired by the situation he is in, this is what he calls psycho-geography.  This concept involves when out on a shoot, or just in everyday life, something, as simple as a balloon may inspire Tom and give him an idea for a video/photo.

I think that some people are confused by Tom’s work as it challenges the social norms of society and how people are suppose to act around others, and Tom captures this in his videos as the audiences reaction is usually in the videos. Some would say that Tom Pope’s work is not photography and it is media based, but Tom uses a film camera and the camera takes 24 frames a second, so it can be considered a photograph, it just challenges the expectations of a usual photograph. Tom explains this as ‘subverting social situations’.

Some other concepts which have influenced Tom is Feminism, Cubism, Dadaism  and Neo-dadaism.