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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November

Sydney: The exhibition delves into the State Library of NSW's vast collection of two million images, showcasing 400 photos – many displayed for the first time.

February

Melbourne: Jill Orr’s The Promised Land Refigured is an exhibition that reworks the original project created in 2012 with new insights that have emerged in the past eleven years.

March

Melbourne: Environmental Futures features five artists whose work addresses how the natural world is affected by climate change and encompasses photography, sculpture and installation both within the gallery spaces and around the museum grounds.

Ballarat: Nan Goldin is an American artist whose work explores subcultures, moments of intimacy, the impacts of the HIV/AIDS and opioid epidemics on her communities, and photography as a tool for social activism.

Sydney: The Ocean Photographer of the Year Award, run by London based Oceanographic Magazine is in its 4th year and has quickly achieved recognition amongst photographers around the world.

Albury: The National Photography Prize offers a $30,000 acquisitive prize, the $5000 John and Margaret Baker Fellowship for an emerging practitioner, and further supports a number of artists through focused acquisitions.

April

Sydney: Photographers Harold David, Lyndal Irons, Ladstreet, Selina Ou, David Porter, Greg Semu, and Craig Walsh exhibit a diverse and varied snapshot of Penrith and western Sydney as it has changed and grown over the last sixty years.

The City Surveyor’s ‘Condemnation and Demolition Books’ is a key photographic collection held in the City Archives comprising almost 5000 photographs and associated glass plate negatives.

May

Ballarat: Art Gallery of Ballarat presents Lost in Palm Springs, a multidisciplinary exhibition that brings together fourteen creative minds who respond to, capture, or re-imagine the magical qualities of the landscape and the celebrated mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, California and across Australia.