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CONTACT STATES
A new series of unique photographic works by Alexander James Hamilton. Contact States returns to the analogue contact sheet as a finished photographic object, where the sequence itself becomes the image.
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A new series of unique photographic works by Alexander James Hamilton. Contact States returns to the analogue contact sheet as a finished photographic object, where the sequence itself becomes the image.
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The Structure of Light: On Caustics
Light is not used to describe the subject. It is reorganised by the medium into structure. A photographic practice built through water, light and controlled instability, where the image emerges as the trace of a physical event.
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Light is not used to describe the subject. It is reorganised by the medium into structure. A photographic practice built through water, light and controlled instability, where the image emerges as the trace of a physical event.
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The Artist as System Builder
The Artist as System Builder Physical Process and Analogue Photography. My work is not organised as a series of images. It is organised as a set of physical operating conditions. Across four decades, my analogue photographic practice has developed through the construction of environments in which outcomes cannot be fully predetermined, yet are not accidental. These environments are built, tested and refined as systems.
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The Artist as System Builder Physical Process and Analogue Photography. My work is not organised as a series of images. It is organised as a set of physical operating conditions. Across four decades, my analogue photographic practice has developed through the construction of environments in which outcomes cannot be fully predetermined, yet are not accidental. These environments are built, tested and refined as systems.
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Human Authorship in Photography
´ Why AI Does Not Frighten Me ´ a text by Alexander James Hamilton (b.1967) Photography is not defined by resemblance. It is defined by consequence.
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´ Why AI Does Not Frighten Me ´ a text by Alexander James Hamilton (b.1967) Photography is not defined by resemblance. It is defined by consequence.
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In 2006 Time Magazine issued a warning, everyon...
There have been several Time Magazine covers that highlight our future predicament, but what impact or change did it help make? Since that publication date, global warming twinned with other human activity is disrupting the biological world in profound ways, pushing many species to the brink of extinction while turning others into runaway pests. But the worst is yet to come, and yet we still have our foot on the gas speeding towards the cliff edge.
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There have been several Time Magazine covers that highlight our future predicament, but what impact or change did it help make? Since that publication date, global warming twinned with other human activity is disrupting the biological world in profound ways, pushing many species to the brink of extinction while turning others into runaway pests. But the worst is yet to come, and yet we still have our foot on the gas speeding towards the cliff edge.
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Resonance recorded as structure
Cymatic Water & Light now enters a public phase. The works are analogue photographs produced through resonance physics, using liquid, sound and light. Each image records a unique and unrepeatable...
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Cymatic Water & Light now enters a public phase. The works are analogue photographs produced through resonance physics, using liquid, sound and light. Each image records a unique and unrepeatable...
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The Language of Vanitas: Death, Transience, and...
Vanitas emerged in mid-seventeenth-century Holland during a period of acute economic and moral instability. In 1636, at the height of the Dutch tulip mania, rare bulbs were traded for extraordinary sums, fuelling the first Europe-wide speculative bubble. Its collapse in February 1637 precipitated widespread financial and social turmoil, and it was within this void that the vanitas still life took shape: not as a moral sermon, but as a measured, materially sophisticated reflection on the transience of earthly pleasures and the certainty of death.
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Vanitas emerged in mid-seventeenth-century Holland during a period of acute economic and moral instability. In 1636, at the height of the Dutch tulip mania, rare bulbs were traded for extraordinary sums, fuelling the first Europe-wide speculative bubble. Its collapse in February 1637 precipitated widespread financial and social turmoil, and it was within this void that the vanitas still life took shape: not as a moral sermon, but as a measured, materially sophisticated reflection on the transience of earthly pleasures and the certainty of death.
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Holding Light - Submerging the subject in water...
For more than forty years, this photographic practice has been defined by continuity rather than discrete series. The works grouped under Swarm and Transparency of a Dream emerged gradually from...
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For more than forty years, this photographic practice has been defined by continuity rather than discrete series. The works grouped under Swarm and Transparency of a Dream emerged gradually from...
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Recycled Aluminium Seashell Drawer Pulls & Door...
Studio update: the recycled-aluminium seashell handle has now grown into a larger, more architectural object — and it finally exists as a left/right pair, designed for formal entrances, hospitality interiors,...
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Studio update: the recycled-aluminium seashell handle has now grown into a larger, more architectural object — and it finally exists as a left/right pair, designed for formal entrances, hospitality interiors,...
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A guide to building a photography collection
Photography is one of the most exciting and accessible mediums to collect. Whether you are looking to discover and champion emerging photographers, or gravitate towards the most collected names in...
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Photography is one of the most exciting and accessible mediums to collect. Whether you are looking to discover and champion emerging photographers, or gravitate towards the most collected names in...
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The Long Arc of Value: How Photographs Gain Imp...
Photography has always sat at an unusual intersection in the art world. It behaves like a reproducible medium, yet the works most valued by museums and collectors are those tied...
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Photography has always sat at an unusual intersection in the art world. It behaves like a reproducible medium, yet the works most valued by museums and collectors are those tied...
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A studio designed Morpho blue butterfly wallpaper
Designed with Morpho Peleides, Morpho Amathonte, Morpho Adonis and Morpho Rhetenor Adonis butterflies finished in a flock silk finish and a pearl ink finishing layer. a close up of the...
Read more →A studio designed Morpho blue butterfly wallpaper
Designed with Morpho Peleides, Morpho Amathonte, Morpho Adonis and Morpho Rhetenor Adonis butterflies finished in a flock silk finish and a pearl ink finishing layer. a close up of the...
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