Tom Hatton
NOW HERE, 2016
Made in the Calais Refugee Camp these photographs provide a slower moment of consideration of an internationally significant event yet without political urgency or imperative. There is no fixed truth or decisive moment. We are not shown the refugees but their material objects and the traces of their actions. This absence invites the construction of a fiction emptied of prejudices surrounding ethnicity. The black and white large format film further dislocate us from the specifics of place. Only via these suspensions, via the blurring of the documentary mode can the photographs begin to escape pre-mediated opinions of refugees and instead relay a human space, fragile, psychologically complex and held together by the coldest manifestations of chance
Julien Bonnin • Mia Dudek • Darek Fortas • Tom Hatton • Steff Jamieson • Ayesha Saeed • Tim Sullivan •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Leeds College of Art
MA Creative Practice
London College of Communication
MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography