Tom Hunter

This is a selection of images from the series entitled Life and Death in Hackney by the photographer Tom Hunter. With this series, he is attempting to get people to study the urban landscape, to look at his friends and the way they live and appreciate the beauty of it. His work discusses the issues surrounding the idea that everywhere in England has been touched by man, therefore all traces of industrialisation are key elements within the images. Much of his work is based upon the work of the Pre-Raphaelites given their work fits somewhat naturally into his due to the issues he's dealing with. The 19th century was an era of accelerated industrialisation against which the Pre-Raphaelites were working. In a sense, Hunter is collecting all the issues they were working with, that they believed to be relevant and using them in an entirely different age. Additionally, the richness of texture in his work directly reflects the immense detail and realistic qualities found in most Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

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