Michael hughes photographer biography book

I have always been drawn towards a cross between fine art and social documentary photography.

Michael hughes photographer biography book

On a personal level I am continually interested in the themes of loss and memory, and my creative work embraces these themes quite naturally as I combine both image making and my writing.

Prior to the pandemic, I had also begun to explore ways of incorporating my image making into sculptural and installation based pieces.

Personally I find it fascinating to introduce a non-replication aspect to my work (especially in a digital age of instant reproduction). I enjoy the sense of theatre that this brings to the process and it creates a need to experience the work in place rather than simply consuming an image through a browser.

This exploratory work can be simply through very large format prints, book publishing designs and fully three dimensional work, such as with the Oriental Hearth project.

However, more recently (and in many ways driven by the