Press and Publications
selected quotes, texts and press
‘ The photograph is the only existing record of a far bigger conceptual process that is produced through his complete dedication to a renaissance studio practice. ’
Professor Andrei Tolstoy 1956–2016, Russian Academic, Professor of Arts & President AICA Russia.
‘ Alexander James Hamilton is a rare transversal artist, committed to society and nature, Renaissance in attitude. ’
Professor Javier Poyatos Sebastián, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Creative Ruralism.
‘ He doesn’t see himself as a photographer, more as a sculptor whose setting is water. ’
writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent, From Water to the Universe, Seisma Magazine.
‘ The result is an acceptance of the contingent in sequence of semi controlled accidents, much as occurs in process based abstract painting like Richter’s, and with the characteristic attraction of being able to trace or at least speculate on what events have caused the particular outcome. ’
curator & writer Paul Carey-Kent text for All icons are false.
‘Today as in the past we fight battles over access to oil, soon those same wars will erupt over access to clean water. This, the great fate of humanity consumes my thoughts daily. Continuing to explore its environmental signature is a conversation that I have made a lifelong commitment to; that of unencumbered fresh water to all living species, and, clean oceans enabling their vital ecosystems to thrive; right now across vast areas around the globe they are barely surviving.’
Alexander James, 1998.
‘ Triumph Gallery in Moscow already has a reputation for introducing major British artists to a Russian audience. After Damien Hirst and the Chapman brothers a year later, Hamilton is joining an impressive roster and the third British artist to have a solo exhibition at the gallery, and the only one to have produced the works in Russia. ’
art critic Grigory Revzin, Art Chronika.
‘ The work is like poetry: made to be remembered, a continuation of a dialogue with loss. ’
writer Darya Gorshkova, BURO.
‘ Aching with the dramatic radiance of Caravaggio, James’ figures arise from a well of negative potential, as if from the depths of the fugitive self. ’
writer Lizzy Hajos, Art Daily.
‘ Capturing the haunting and ephemeral moment in an intense state of depth and chiaroscuro. ’
writer Nina Azzarello for DesignBoom.
‘ Walking in to any show by English artist Alexander James is like being in a multi storey car park lit by Dan Flavin. ’
writer Anna McNay for Studio International Magazine.
‘ A minimalist Gregory Crewdson. ’
editor Cary Georges, LA Times.
‘ Like Man Ray meeting Jet Li. ’
editor Michael Kimmelman, NY Times.
2026 Interalia Magazine, ‘Visualising the Invisible: Resonance, Water and Light as Photographic Event’.
2026 writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Morpho, blood and water’.
2025 Interalia Magazine, ‘Perceiving Reality: The Enthalpy of Existence’.
2025 Castillo de Piedra Bermeja, ‘Goya reborn in water’.
2023writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent, ‘From water to the universe’.
2023 Considering Art, ´Visions from the shoreline´.
2021 Islanders Magazine, ‘Science, design & sustainability’.
2021 Paradise Magazine, ‘Makers Place: turning rubbish into art in the Maldives’.
2021 writer Emma Coccioli, ‘Fusion’.
2021writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent, ‘Art into action into art’.
2021Journal entry, ‘Makers Place’.
2021 Sustainable Lifestyle Magazine, ‘Makers Place’.
2020 journalist Jesús de Andrés, ‘Renaciendo’.
2020 Prof. Javier Poyatos Sebastian, ´Creative Ruralism´.
2019 curator Oksana Budulak, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 Sobaka Magazine, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 TV documentary, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 Documentary Film I, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 Kultura24 TV, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 Documentary Film II, ‘Dark Vat’.
2019 TKV National News, ‘Dark Vat’.
2018 Vernon Press, ‘Animae’.
2017 Luxury London, ‘Deep Water’.
2017 ArtNet, ‘Challenging our understanding of the photographic medium’.
2017 curator Jessica McBride, artists working with flag motifs.
2017 ArtNet, ‘How can water be used as a medium’.
2017 AfterNyne Magazine, ‘Studio as laboratory’.
2016 Christie’s Magazine, ‘The butterfly effect’.
2016 Private Air Magazine, ‘Dancing with butterflies’.
2016 Donna Spaan Museum Collection, ‘The great leveller’.
2016 Philistine Magazine, ‘Pure Process’.
2015 Russia Today, ‘Immersed in Moscow’.
2015 BBC Arts, ‘Portrait of an artist’.
2015 After Nyne Magazine, ‘Chaos in Residence’.
2015 ‘OIL + WATER’, shortlisted ‘Environmental Photographer of the Year 2015’.
2015 Smithsonian Magazine, ´Mixing Oil + Water´.
2015 FOUR Magazine, ‘Malerisch Fotografiert’.
2014 Laissez Faire, ‘Ophelia & The Chocolate Factory’.
2014 Deutsche Welle EuroMax TV, ´Underwater Process´.
2014 Studio International, ´Rastvoyrennaya Pechel´ (dissolved sadness).
2014 Billionaire Magazine, ´Water Works´.
2014 Bric Magazine, ‘An Englishman in Moscow’.
2014 Wall Street International, ‘Rastvorennaya Pechal’ (dissolved sadness).
2014 ArtDaily, ´Red October´.
2014 BURO 247, ´Photography, poetry and remembering´.
2014 professor & critic Andrei Tolstoy, ‘Rastvorennaya Pechal’ (dissolved sadness).
2014 Royal Photographic Society, ‘the first British artist in 30 years to create art like this in Russia’.
2014 Voice of Russia Radio interview, ´Creating works in Russia´.
2014 BBC Arts, ‘Relocating to the Red October Studio in Russia’.
2013 Blouin Artinfo, ´Heading to Moscow´.
2013 Thames & Hudson, ‘Nature Morte’.
2013 Moscow Times interview, ‘Art & Russia’.
2013 The Positive, ‘What’s Behind The Art’.
2013 New Statesman, ‘Painting with light’.
2013 Aesthetica Magazine, ‘Intersection’.
2013 Huffington Post, ´Intersection´.
2013 Creative Review, ‘Dead Or Alive’.
2012 Merrell Publishing, proof copy ‘Tokyo Taxi’.
2010 AOP Association of Photographers, Cover article, ‘Fusion’.
2010 LA Times Magazine, ‘Tokyo Taxi’.
2009 Creative Review Monograph, ‘Tokyo Taxi’.
2009 DIF Magazine, ‘Tokyo Taxi’.