“They Fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to,
but they do.” - This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin. The Lonely
Man is a deeply personal project by self-taught photographer
and former Head of Art at leading advertising agency M&C
Saatchi, Nicky Hamilton. The thirteen piece tableau explores the
artist’s childhood relationship with his father, a relationship that
the artist describes as being conducted through “a maze of
police raids, guns, drugs, violence and, ultimately, redemption”
after the Essex Builder was declared bankrupt in the 1980s. The
Lonely Man draws on Hamilton’s characteristic method of
designing and building elaborate sets to create pictures of
extraordinary detail, narrative and emotional power.
Nicky Hamilton (British, born 1982), is a photographer and former Head of Art at leading advertising agency M&C Saatchi. His method is highly filmic, designing and building elaborate sets to create pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative. His work explores characters’ emotional states by playing with performance and symbolism in order to produce deeply evocative moods.
