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Photograph by Andrey Kolesnikov: the front of an old blue truck on a city street

A guide to investing in fine art photography

Investing in fine art photography offers a unique opportunity to combine cultural appreciation with potential financial gains. After more than 170 years of existence, photography has emerged as an essential...

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A guide to investing in fine art photography

Investing in fine art photography offers a unique opportunity to combine cultural appreciation with potential financial gains. After more than 170 years of existence, photography has emerged as an essential...

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A blue Morpho butterfly artist's proof from Transparency of a Dream, one of 15 proofs

Transparency of a dream - 15 artists proofs

From the sold out series ‘Transparency of a dream illuminated’ I am releasing 15 unique artist proofs from the series, re-visiting the 2017 exhibition ‘Death of the Dream’ with this...

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Transparency of a dream - 15 artists proofs

From the sold out series ‘Transparency of a dream illuminated’ I am releasing 15 unique artist proofs from the series, re-visiting the 2017 exhibition ‘Death of the Dream’ with this...

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All Icons Are False, Plate 0336: a field of submerged petals in violet and green

ArtNet Asks How Water Can Be a Photographic Medium

Alexander James has one of the most complex photographic practices of any artist working today. His current exhibition “All Icons Are False” displays still lifes of flowers and skulls bathed...

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ArtNet Asks How Water Can Be a Photographic Medium

Alexander James has one of the most complex photographic practices of any artist working today. His current exhibition “All Icons Are False” displays still lifes of flowers and skulls bathed...

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Witness: a woman in a blue dress floating in black water, by Alexander James Hamilton

Artnet asks how to challenge the understanding ...

  The second in a series of interviews with Artnet, I am asked how I continue to challenge our understanding of photography as a medium.Alexander James Hamilton has earned a...

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Artnet asks how to challenge the understanding ...

  The second in a series of interviews with Artnet, I am asked how I continue to challenge our understanding of photography as a medium.Alexander James Hamilton has earned a...

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Nothing Bad Ever Lasts: a silver gelatine print of rippling water with handwritten text

A collection of vintage Silver Gelatine prints

  Offshore Recordings — a collection of vintage silver gelatine black-and-white hand prints dating from 1995–2007. Memories in the form of texts are recorded on a typewriter, then documented underwater...

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A collection of vintage Silver Gelatine prints

  Offshore Recordings — a collection of vintage silver gelatine black-and-white hand prints dating from 1995–2007. Memories in the form of texts are recorded on a typewriter, then documented underwater...

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A hawksbill turtle swimming over the reef in Baa Atoll, Maldives

Single Use Plastic & Aluminium recycling studio...

WELCOME TO MAKERS PLACE — a brief introduction to this project that helps oceans stay clean for habitat and species protection from pollution. Plans for Makers Place II are already...

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Single Use Plastic & Aluminium recycling studio...

WELCOME TO MAKERS PLACE — a brief introduction to this project that helps oceans stay clean for habitat and species protection from pollution. Plans for Makers Place II are already...

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Rastvorennaya Pechal, Plate 0096: a figure dissolving into dark water, by Alexander James Hamilton

Rastvorennaya Pechal 10 year anniversary

“These are diary notations of an artist living his life directly through the medium of his canvases, a process of the most painfully intense kind. Brutal, yet divine.” Moscow Times,...

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Rastvorennaya Pechal 10 year anniversary

“These are diary notations of an artist living his life directly through the medium of his canvases, a process of the most painfully intense kind. Brutal, yet divine.” Moscow Times,...

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An NFC authentication tag beside the artist's signature on the back of an artwork

NFC Art Tag Provenance Authentication Without B...

In the midst of the current growth of NFT artworks, and to counter the misconception concerning their uniqueness as an artwork, I will now produce all new works with NFC...

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NFC Art Tag Provenance Authentication Without B...

In the midst of the current growth of NFT artworks, and to counter the misconception concerning their uniqueness as an artwork, I will now produce all new works with NFC...

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Princess Tarakanova (1864) by Konstantin Flavitsky, Tretyakov Gallery: the princess in her cell as floodwater rises

Breaking the boundaries of your own construction

“The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You need to...

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Breaking the boundaries of your own construction

“The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You need to...

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Studio proofs of blue butterfly prints laid out on a lightbox for checking

Making the decision as an artist to be self rep...

After decades of gallery representation, since 2019 artworks by my hand are now exclusively available direct from the Studio. This is a complex and painful issue for me to discuss,...

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Making the decision as an artist to be self rep...

After decades of gallery representation, since 2019 artworks by my hand are now exclusively available direct from the Studio. This is a complex and painful issue for me to discuss,...

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Cymatic Plate 0864: a circle of gold and blue caustics, evoking the gravitational waves LISA will measure

Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. "A game-changer for space exploration, the same as when sound was added to motion pictures."For the first time an off-planet gravitational wave detector in...

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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission

Your browser does not support HTML5 video. "A game-changer for space exploration, the same as when sound was added to motion pictures."For the first time an off-planet gravitational wave detector in...

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Ptolemy, from the Siberian Project: a glowing sphere formed in oil and water, by Alexander James Hamilton

Artist working through the harsh Siberian winter

  " The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You...

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Artist working through the harsh Siberian winter

  " The more well-known you are as an artist for a particular style or flavour, the more scared you become of breaking the boundaries of your own construction. You...

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