A M Hanson is an artist and photographer, based in London.
Photo practice includes an evolving London series of photo stories, with documentary and news, promotions and advertising projects.
Recent and archive portraits, social and performance based images and stories can be seen in a range of newspapers, magazines, books and biographies and online.
Photo based installations and print works have been shown in solo shows including at Regent’s Place London and Limbo Arts Margate and in group shows including Photo London, Galleria Uno Uno Milan and Turner Contemporary’s Season of Colour.
July 2020 interview - With Lola Blog ~ with new protest photo stories, city series samplers, lockdown video dream and flashback music video.
“I make images about the energy in encounters. Scenes, stages and situations of everyday extraordinary life.
Life in the city and beyond. The change in spaces. Mirrored realities and reimagined worlds.
And in a city of windows and screens, I stay outside looking in. In these zones I glimpse a version of reality, document, adapt and create scenarios. I find fragments of this age, and prisms to the next.”
education
LCC (UAL), Art & Design Fdn, photography. UCA, BA Hons Fine Art, first class honours.
publications
portraits and photo stories of performers, activists, artists, musicians, makers, designers, educators, writers and others published in magazines including; Dance Theatre Journal, Gazelland (USA), GQ Style (SA), i-D, Time Out, Love Magazine, in culture/scene/music press, various digital features, including BBC News, Fitzrovia News, news wires, in-house and promo publications and across media.
Work featured in art and fashion books and biographies including; Alexander McQueen Fashion Visionary (Judith Watt, Goodman Books) & The Life and the Legacy (JW, Harper Design), Blood Beneath The Skin (Andrew Wilson, Simon & Schuster), Leigh Bowery (Robert Violette, various, Violette Editions), Leigh Bowery Verwandlungskünstler (ed. Angela Stief, various, Piet Meyer Verlag), Contemporary British Queer Performance (Stephen Greer, Palgrave Macmillan), We Love You (The Ambassadors, various, Booth Clibborn) and contributions to exhibition publications.
shows
work exhibited in solo and group shows in the UK and internationally including; Regent's Place London (solo show), Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery London, Galleria Uno Uno Milan, Rice+ Kyojima Tokyo, Leo Kesting Gallery New York, Limbo Arts Margate (solo show), Turner Contemporary's Season of Colour, Pyramid Arts Centre Warrington, Residence Gallery London, Hackney Wicked Festival, t.a.g galleries Brussels, Power Lunches London, Brewery Tap project space Folkestone, The Centre of Attention London, Red Gallery London, Turf Projects Croydon, Vexed Generation London (solo show), Elms Lesters Painting Rooms London, The Fine Art Society London, Herbert Read Gallery, LCC galleries, The People's Moon Apollo50th project, Goswell Road Paris, for 24London's European touring exhibits, for Satellite Festival at Whitstable Biennale, for Photo Month, East London Photography Festival, Meantime Co. NYC online, Leigh Bowery at Fitzrovia Chapel and others, digital displays and film screenings.
