China
Hamilton, has established a considerable
global reputation as photographer of fine art erotic
images of women. He is married and has
four children. He was born in Norbury, south London
England in 1946. and attended Croydon Technical
School before spending four years at Croydon College
of Art and Design. Here he specialised in life drawing
under the renowned Fred Janes. He also studied fine
art, graphic design and photography.
He
first started making his own sunlight prints and
processing his own film at age eleven and at age
thirteen started painting and drawing seriously.
Paintings of wild landscapes and drawing
the female nude have always run along side his photographic
work.
After
leaving college he established with his partner
Andrew Crisford London’s first specialist
macro photography business, specialising in the
photography of fine art antiques for dealers and
the major London auction houses. He is
something of a polymath, also having a passion for
precision engineering. He has rebuilt and raced
historic racing cars and motorcycles, plays traditional
Irish Music and is also well know for his erotic
short stories many of which have been published.
He has been seen as one of the leading fine
art photographic printers of the twentieth century.
He strove to produce photographs that were each
unique pieces of creative work. In this quest he
mastered and improved many historic processes and
has contributed to photographic science a number
of new printing processes including making photographic
images upon hand made water-colour paper and copper
sheets.
He was sponsored by Kodak and featured in
their Professional Journal. These processes
have been published in the photographic press. His
photographs have been and continue to be published
by journals and magazines world wide.
His work has often examined the darker side
of female sexuality along side his more traditional
erotic pictures. Much of his later work
is inspired by sadomasochistic subjects. This particular
theme has made this aspect of his work controversial
though its reflection upon the power and private
expression of women has brought a new sensitivity
and respect to this subject. His unique and distinctive
style of image has often been the inspiration for
the work of other photographers.
In 1996 he was awarded the global title
of Erotic Photographer of the Year.
His work is in many private collections
around the world including the collection of the
Museum of Erotic Art, Miami, USA. Over
the past twenty years he has been included in many
exhibitions of erotic art and photography, and he
had a one-man show at Editions Graphic Gallery in
London’s West End. He had a one-man show of
landscape work using hand made photographic processes
at The Sterts Centre Bodmin, Cornwall. In 2005 he
was invited to exhibit six pictures in the erotic
art exhibition of the Brighton Fringe, Brighton
England. His work has appeared in many book compilations.
He has been selected as a Juror for the
global 2007 Erotic Signature Competition.
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Collections
of his work are published as:
“A
View From Behind” The Erotic Print Society,
London, England.
“Woman”
Published by St. Martin’s Press NY. USA. The
Erotic Print Society, London, and editions in France
and Australia.
“BitterSweet
Sex” The Erotic Print Society.
“The
Cabinet of Dark Things” published in 2005
Erotic Print society.
He
is currently working towards the publication of
his fifth collection of photographs. ........................................................................................................
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