Hamiltons presented Seascape, an exhibition by British photographer Charles March, from 11 – 16 September 2017. This series followed Abstract & Intentional, which was exhibited at Hamiltons in February 2015. A catalogue was produced to accompany the exhibition.
Charles March has nurtured an interest in photography since the age of twelve. After leaving school at sixteen, he spent time as an apprentice to Stanley Kubrick, worked as a documentary photographer in Africa and then spent twenty years in the advertising industry photographing campaigns such as Levi’s, Benson & Hedges and ICI. One of March’s pictures was selected for the Pompidou Centre’s permanent exhibition ‘One Hundred Images of Advertising Photography from 1930 – 1990’. Amongst many awards, March received a silver medal for the AFAEP Awards – the highest award at the time to a photographer in the UK. He has exhibited globally and his work is held in a number of private collections.
“The ‘feeling’ of a place is what I am most interested in. The sea and the seascape view, looking out across the horizon, never changes – it is an eternal view looking out to infinity. It is, if you like, a very deep look at the earth and how we see it. The sea is also a boundary, a line, something to cross or not. It is calming, inspiring and often dangerous. The exploration of that in-between space is an important part of this for me, the liminal space between sea and shore. In one sense it is always moving and changing and in another it is constant. It is kind of a no-man’s land, a place of transition. Somewhere that exists one minute and not the next – an invisible boundary. At the same time inviting you in and keeping you out, beckoning and dismissing.”
Charles March
Charles March, Seascape 28. 2015-03-31 14:20:04 © Charles March
