Hugh Hamilton (photographer)
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Hugh Hamilton is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Nottingham Trent University based in Nottingham, England.
His photographic research is based on using documentary images to engage with pursuits, which have an established mythology, have a sense of place but are inherently unfashionable within globalised post-industrial cultures. These pursuits’ rituals are predominately, but not exclusively, male rites of passage. For an example of this research see his book 'Good Reason.' [1]
Alongside this photographic practice he is currently researching the early history of military aerial photography and its use in mapping the land.
Current research
Hamilton, H., 2008 'Good Reason: Enderby Wildfowlers' Uisdean Mor Publishing/Lulu [2]
Hamilton, H., Ongoing series of photographs of men (and some women) who enjoy (and work in) the traditional countryside: mainly about those who have “good reason” to have firearms. [3]
Hamilton, H., 2006 Invited to China by the Chinese Photographers Association (CPA), to help photographically document Xinjiang Autonomous Region (Aug 06) [4]
Conference papers given
Hamilton, H., 2008 'How a Private …’ paper presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston USA (April 2008.) [5]
Hamilton, H., 2007 ‘How a Private in the Coldstream Guards helped to use a French invention in creating a map that defeated the Germans on the Western Front by 1918’ Paper given at the 7th International Conference on Military Geology and Geography (June 2007) Québec: Département de géographie, Université Laval_Québec, Québec, Canada. [6]
Hamilton, H., 2005 ‘Imagery of the Battlescape, Roger Fenton and the Crimean War’, paper presented at the 6th Military Geology and Geography Conference, Nottingham: University of Nottingham (June 2005) [7]
Hamilton, H., 2005 ‘There is no such thing as a photographer’ Invited speaker Redeye Symposium 2005; The Photographers Guide to the Future, Manchester: Manchester Art Gallery (23rd April 2005) [8]
See Nottingham Trent University staff list page [9] and his research website [10]
