page_title: Andrea Hamilton
section_title: Artistic style
hierarchical_section_title: Andrea Hamilton / Artistic style
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographic artwork from the Luminous Icescapes series by Andrea Hamilton
context_page_description: Andrea Jarvis Hamilton is a fine-art photographer known for her monumental lightboxes of natural phenomena like icebergs and for her candid portraits of London's creative personalities. Her work encompasses several photographic genres including portraiture, street photography and landscape, and questions subjects as varied as climate change, identity or place as they relate to other creative disciplines.
  Hamilton has been short-listed for several notable photography prizes including the 7th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, Chantel Paul’s Honorable Mention at The Centre for Fine Art Photography in Colorado, the 9th Arte Laguna Prize and the Judges Choice at the AOP Open Awards 2013.
context_section_description: Hamilton works across multiple photographic genres including fine art, landscape, urban photography and street photography. Hamilton's works frequently examine the durational capacity of photography which implies the contingency of both past and future as related in Roland Barthes’ notion of time. On one hand, Hamilton detains the landscape in a sort of infinite present that transforms the image into a haiku poem, as it occurs in her series Tidal Resonance, shown at Delahunty in 2014. On the other hand, her portraits remind the audience that posing in front of the camera entails the enactment of the future emphasising the timelessness and dignity of her subjects, as seen in her surreal portraits of children in Wondrous Strange.
  Hamilton also employs photography to create images that bring out the emotional potential of an environment, achieving images that are both personal and universal. Her street photography is driven by "the prospect of witnessing something special and spontaneous", as evidenced in her London Every Day series in which a daily snapshot of London shows the changing seasons. Her street photography is notable for its acute sensitivity to and understanding of natural light, and its ability to morph the ordinary into something strange and sometimes otherworldly.
caption: Luminous Icescapes series, 2013-2014
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