Artistic style Andrea Hamilton

luminous icescapes series, 2013-2014



portrait wondrous strange series

hamilton works across multiple photographic genres including fine art, landscape, urban photography , street photography. hamilton s works examine durational capacity of photography implies contingency of both past , future related in roland barthes’ notion of time. on 1 hand, hamilton detains landscape in sort of infinite present transforms image haiku poem, occurs in series tidal resonance, shown @ delahunty in 2014. on other hand, portraits remind audience posing in front of camera entails enactment of future emphasising timelessness , dignity of subjects, seen in surreal portraits of children in wondrous strange.

hamilton employs photography create images bring out emotional potential of environment, achieving images both personal , universal. approach landscape indebted rigour of kunstakademie düsseldorf , disciples such thomas ruff, andreas gursky , axel hütte. street photography driven prospect of witnessing special , spontaneous , evidenced in london every day series in daily snapshot of london shows changing seasons of year. street photography notable acute sensitivity , understanding of natural light, , ability morph ordinary strange , otherworldly. many of hamilton’s images call mind work of photographers jeff wall or philip-lorca dicorcia.