Hugh Hamilton's use of photography is both to investigate the politics of rural representation and to interrogate photographically the construction of masculinity within that political paradigm.
His engagement with photography encompasses both portraiture and the social and vernacular history of photography. He is making a series of portraits of men (and women) who enjoy, and work, in the traditional British countryside pursuing rural activities. This work is primarily concerned with men who have a "good reason" to have firearms.
Alongside his photographic practice he is currently researching the early history of military aerial photography and its use in mapping landscape.
