Tom Hunter Field notes I photograph my longing

I photograph my longing

photography was being used by the state as a tool of classification and separation

was plentiful

In Michael Ackerman's photographs the world seems out of range

Before any of these events took place

Tom Hunter Field notes I photograph my longingFirst Edition Hardcover Condition, As New About In 1998, the London based artist Tom Hunter was awarded the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Prize for Woman Reading a Possession Order, an image of a young woman standing at a window reading an eviction notice with a baby at her side. This work, part his Persons Unknown series, directly references Vermeer's A Girl Reading at the Open Window, using both its composition, color and play of light to produce