Brenton Hamilton

Brenton Hamilton received his MFA in photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design and holds an undergraduate degree in art & design from LaGrange College in Georgia. He is a photographer, visual artist, unique and dedicated teacher, and the Director of the Professional Certificate program in photography at Maine Media College.

He is a practicing artist who uses a variety of media in his photography. Devoted to the 19th century cyanotype process, he is presently at work on a large body of historically influenced and wildly adjusted allegories & fables.

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Articles by Brenton

This Is: After-Photography 1839/1851/1880/1975/1980

June 18, 2011

We are experiencing direct impact from technology upon the technical structures of the medium, potentially undermining the photograph’s status as we have come to know it over a hundred and sixty years. This unique and special status – this prescient index is wobbling.

Featured Artist: Tom Butler

March 28, 2011

Tom Butler's recent Grotesques series unites a common 19th century photographic sensibility with a contemporary edge of disquiet that draws its viewer into dueling gazes back and forth between the 'sitters' and the patron, in a confrontation between sublime monsters and dark transformations.

Featured Artist: Gary Briechle

January 31, 2011

Beyond physiognomy Gary Briechle’s photographs infer a poignant darkness so beautiful and recognizable, that I cannot look away from their elegant gaze. The photographs startle me with their brilliant darkness and silver light, which is most often trained upon human flesh.

Moving Forward

May 7, 2010

Although OBSCURA officially celebrated its one-year anniversary this past April, it’s an enterprise that’s been five years in the making. Ideas are like that – they grow, shift, evolve, and take form over time. What began as an in-house newspaper, published for a community of photography students and teachers, has grown into much more.

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