Yvette Hamilton

3 hours // 3 weeks (May 2025)

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Inkjet print on cotton baryta paper from cameraless unfixed lumen photogram.
30 x 40cm each
2025

'3 hours // 3 weeks (May 2025)' is a diptych of cameraless photographic works that record the actions of light on light sensitive surfaces across time. Rejecting the swift 'point and shoot' methodology, these works instead gather light over extended time periods. The focus is not a depiction of an external view from the past framed and focused through a lens, rather, the works aim to create an active and dialogic experience between time, light and atmosphere at the photographic surface in the present.

Yvette Hamilton is an Australian interdisciplinary artist of Mauritian descent working on the unceded lands of the Dharug and Gundungurra people (Blue Mountains, NSW). Her expanded photographic practice incorporates analogue and hand-crafted photographic techniques, alongside digital technologies, and installation. Conceptually, her work pushes at the limits and expectations of representation within photography, and focuses on the quest to see the unseen, to broach distance, explore the unknown, and to materialise the invisible. Her work has been shown in Australia and overseas in over the past 15 years and she is a Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art at the University of Sydney.