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Tom Hunter - Photographer Research

Tom Hunter is an east London photographer, born in Dorset, who uses natural lighting for all of his photos, he is quite good at setting a strong dramatic atmosphere within his photos.  His work is usually particular, but not exclusive, to his community and neighbourhood and most of his work is done to raise a specific controversial issue like his series 'persons unknown' which was about people receiving possession orders simply addressed to 'Persons unknown'.

 This photo is from Tom Hunter's 'Life and Death in Hackney' Series.  I like the strong directional light forming the 'god rays' (beams of light) I think that it really helps to create strong contrast within the image and focus attention onto the person in the centre of the image, who otherwise would likely blend into the background pretty easily.

 This photo is from his 'Ghetto' series.  This photo would appear to be taken using only natural light from the window and a reflector to bounce light into the room towards the girl sitting on the bed.  The camera angle used for this photo makes the room appear really small and cramped.  The title of the series implies that the person in the photo lives in a deprived area.

This photo is from the 'Travellers' series, it denotes a women sitting in the back of what appears to be a van, with a bed and fairly cramped conditions.  The connotations  of this is that this is where she lives/spends most of her time and that is is not particularly comfortable.

This final photo is from Tom Hunter's 'Persons Unknown' series and is titled 'Women reading a Possession Order', It denotes a women holding a piece of paper in front of a brightly lit window with a young child laying next to her.  The connotations of this are that something bad is happening as she looks quite upset/shocked, the title implying that she is going to be made homeless.  The directional lighting from the window really helps to emphasise both the child directly in front of it as well as the women's expression and the letter she is holding as it creates contrast between those areas and the rest of the photo.

I think that Tom Hunter has influenced me and the way that I work as his way of using natural light to help construct his composition and different atmosphere works really well and is something that I really like about his body of work.