McKenzie & Hamilton

For PhotoLondon, McKenzie & Hamilton brings together two important photographers combining their works to show that Scotland’s long tradition and contribution to the evolution of photography lives on.
Joseph McKenzie (1929-2015), despite his English heritage, was adopted as The Father of Modern Scottish Photography. His lifetime ambition was to gain acceptance for photography as a fine art. At the forefront of post-war photography, he is considered to be one of the greatest photographers to emerge from this period and has also left a vast legacy of photographic work.
Alexander Hamilton through a lifetime of study and commitment he has mastered the cyanotype process to combine this with his passion and engagement with nature. His photography is about presence and absence, memory and release. It acknowledges nature’s constant state of flux, where no form is truly permanent, yet traces remain.