Tom Sharp is a photographic artist from Ottawa, Canada. 

His preferred media are black and white and colour film, developing his own black and white negatives and printing them on a vintage Besseler 23C Englarger. 

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Tom has been featured in photography zines and websites in Canada, and in vernissages and shows in Canada and the United Kingdom. He has collaborated with celebrated Australian photographer Naomi MacKenzie on a double exposure project (Aurora Australis/Borealis), with the Italian photographer and designer Chiara Cecchini Manara on dance photography projects "What Is Left Behind" and "Harvesting Happiness", and with the American writer Emily Antoine on the book "Thalassa" about their mutual reactions to the harbour town of Porthleven. His 2022 portraits of Japanese blacksmith Yamamoto Masashi are on display at Knifewear, Ottawa. 

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In September 2024, he completed a Master of Arts, Fine Arts (Photography) degree at the Bath School of Art, Film and Media, within Bath Spa University, in England.

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In January 2024, he received a Porthleven Prize Residency from Bath Spa University and the Osborne Trust. His work from this residency was included in group shows at the Net Loft Gallery in Porthleven (August 2024), and the Michael Pennie Gallery in Bath (October 2024), and presented as a solo show at Arlington 5 in Otttawa, Canada.

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His collaboration "Harvesting Happiness" was exhibited in the Ball Room of the Holburne Museum in Bath as part of Play The Museum, an annual collaboration between fine and performing artists.

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