T O M H A T T O N
Now Here Calais (2016)
The Weight of Ashen Soil (2012)
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from Now Here, Calais Refugee Camp, March 2016
Hatton's images of the Calais Refugee camp productively contribute to a growing body of work in this area. They document the transition toward a sense of permanence that has grown out of the makeshift and temporary. His high-contrast, monochromatic photographs really push the documentary feel of the images, but by being unpopulated, their emotional weight is somewhat indirect. They are packed with detail and a sense of tragedy.
CLIFF LAUSON, Curator, Hayward Gallery
CLIFF LAUSON, Curator, Hayward Gallery
Tom Hatton's pictures have for me real presence and real purpose. They do a very difficult thing: they speak about the refugee crisis without cliché or sanctimony or voyeurism. They are conceived in an artistic rather than a journalistic mode that is nevertheless not aestheticized. I admire the way his voice is low key and that is what gives his pictures their quiet power.
KATE BUSH, Head of Photography, Science Museum Group
KATE BUSH, Head of Photography, Science Museum Group