Distil Ennui Studio
Alexander James Hamilton
TOKYO TAXI
Photography, editions and objects to live with.
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Objects to live with
Functional objects, from lighting and ceramics to homewares, produced in limited studio editions. Designed to be lived with, not collected.
Objects to live with
Functional objects, from lighting and ceramics to homewares, produced in limited studio editions. Designed to be lived with, not collected.
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TOKYO TAXI
Independent taxi companies have disappeared from the streets of Tokyo after being bought out by the big operators, making this series a historical record of design vibrancy. Photographed on analogue film between the late 1980s and 2011 released as signed vintage prints.
TOKYO TAXI
Independent taxi companies have disappeared from the streets of Tokyo after being bought out by the big operators, making this series a historical record of design vibrancy. Photographed on analogue film between the late 1980s and 2011 released as signed vintage prints.
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Vanitas fine art prints
A signature collection of still life tableaux works created entirely underwater. The resulting works look more like paintings than photographs.
Vanitas fine art prints
A signature collection of still life tableaux works created entirely underwater. The resulting works look more like paintings than photographs.
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Butterfly fine art prints
An iconic series created underwater using analogue photography, working with butterflies that the artist breeds in the studio.
Butterfly fine art prints
An iconic series created underwater using analogue photography, working with butterflies that the artist breeds in the studio.
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Water + Light
Cymatic experiments with the study of wave phenomena. Created using physics, photography, liquid and light without the use of CGI, AI or any other form of digital production.
Water + Light
Cymatic experiments with the study of wave phenomena. Created using physics, photography, liquid and light without the use of CGI, AI or any other form of digital production.
journal & news
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Understanding Provenance in Contemporary Photography
The Biography of the Photographic Object A photograph can appear complete while much of its history remains invisible. The image tells us what was recorded. It does not necessarily tell...
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The Biography of the Photographic Object A photograph can appear complete while much of its history remains invisible. The image tells us what was recorded. It does not necessarily tell...
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A new manuscript takes shape in the studio
One of the most unexpected developments in the studio over the past couple of years has been just how much time I have spent writing. For many years, writing has...
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One of the most unexpected developments in the studio over the past couple of years has been just how much time I have spent writing. For many years, writing has...
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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 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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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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In 2006 Time Magazine issued a warning, everyone read it & no-one listened
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.
Read more →In 2006 Time Magazine issued a warning, everyone read it & no-one listened
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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