Sam Hutchinson
Sam Hutchinson (he/him, b. 1993, Sunderland) works with visual arts, specifically photography and photographic sculpture, alongside appropriation, installation, and publishing. Thematically, his work is focused on exploring the politics of images, specifically truth, and the representation of reality through the aesthetics of capitalism in their most banal forms - stock photography, corporate design, public advertising etc. By creating a fictional, surreal present of a post-industrial cityscape, tropes of class, culture, authority, and learned beliefs are re-contextualised- the evolution of these forms of cultural identity examined as they have developed and evolved in definition since the start of the Millenium.