TOM HUNTER – PUBLIC SPACES, PUBLIC STAGES
2013-02-11Tom Hunter’s “Public Spaces, Public Stages” is series of photographs the artist took within the local London borough of Hackney.
Speaking about his new exhibition, Tom said, “These photographs are Earthly, here the word evokes the inter-relatedness of the environment to the life that takes place within it… Physical human situations, stories, people and places in-between. I have sought to express and explore a self-reflection and quietness through which one might transcend the immediate realities, pressures and distractions of contemporary urban society.”
The photographs are created using the pinhole technique. According to Tom “My choice to make these photographs with a pinhole camera is critical. It has implications on various levels not only for the construction of the image but also the construction of meaning or interpretation around the image. The pinhole camera is an arcane technology, the most rudimentary of interventions with allusions to the pre and early history of photography. The pinhole camera has no shutter. It makes no sound. Its mechanism; the action of light ‘seeping in’ has the quality of absorbing not grabbing.”
Exhibition runs through till March 25th, 2013
Print House Gallery
18 Ashwin Street
London
E8 3DL
