Moving images with Hugh Hamilton

While we all know that photography and videography are technically connected, sometimes they couldn't feel more different. However, for Hugh Hamilton, it was a natural progression from one medium to another. As cameras developed, so too did his career.

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Join Hugh Hamilton as he discusses the importance of collaboration, team building, and how embracing movement has led to a thriving career in videography and improved his still photography.

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Meet Hugh Hamilton

Hugh Hamilton
Hugh Hamilton

Hugh Hamilton is a photographer and videographer who works between Sydney and Los Angeles. Hamilton began his career photographing the Sydney Theatre Company in the 1990s and soon had his celebrity photographs published in Rolling Stone, The Sydney Morning Herald, Vogue, Marie Claire, GQ, Instyle and OK!

He has photographed major assignments for Qantas, Sony, Unilever, Google Ideas, Wonderbra, the Australian Ballet, and the Sydney Dance Company. Hamilton also does corporate video work for a range of clients and, from 2015 to 2019, was the principal videographer for the Sydney Writers Festival and the Sydney Film Festival.

Event details

When: Wednesday 10 August at 12:30pm (AEST)

Where: Online

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February

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

April

Sydney: 9 April event 6-9pm. Unfinished is a free event to show/see photo-based work in progress or recently completed personal projects run by photographers for photographers.

Sydney: 15 April – 9 May 2026. An exhibition of fine art photography celebrating the intersection of maritime history and the human form.