Alex Hamilton

Plan for the Phantom City. cyanotype installation, 2019.

Equal parts archivist and alchemist, I dismantle the mechanical and chemical processes of analog photography.

Freed from practical duties, these technologies are adapted to build apparatuses and devise experiments, creating alternate methods of seeing. A negative of a negative is still a negative, but it gains some texture along the way.

Applied to everyday instance, the radically simple is made visible. Process distills essence. Every time a glass is rested on the tabletop another ring forms.

Fixed as artifacts, these minor occurrences are brought together to form an archive of un-epic histories.

Pulled from the collection, current is required to finalize the transformation. Sending 300 watts through an abandoned TV, an automaton is born.  If you watch, it will speak to you of its existence.

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Alex Hamilton is a photographic practitioner, preservationist, alchemist, and educator. He received a BA in Photography at Sac State and recently completed an MFA in Studio Art at Mills College. His practice involves taking traditional photographic processes and techniques and pushing them forward, pulling images into space as photo-sculptural installations.