Big World Picture: Photographer's highlight #2 Hilton Vasey

Hilton Vasey is a mutli media artist from the U.K, using performance, installation and photography. Hilton gained his BA Fine art at Kingston then later, his MA Fine Art in Staffordshire. He gets his inspirations form a wide range of influences including Cindy Sherman, Mary Ried Kelly, Egon Schiele (especially his photography) and German Expressionism to name few.

Hilton is a very interesting artist his work is very involved. From the construction of head wear and masks that have a Steampunk feel about them. In Hilton’s own works he is very much interested in the blurry line between fiction and reality. When i look at his costumes in is photography it makes me think of a futuristic world but if the late 1800s, early 1900s had never really progressed. Looking at Hilton’s work, I can so easily be taken into my own cinemagraphic world. I find myself wondering off into a surreal world. The figures in his photographs are like the doormen to another secret world.

“The work is self-reflective constructed from identities from found materials and amalgamation of personal nostalgic experiences with popular culture. To investigate and challenge the way memory and fiction changes through observation.”Hilton Vasey

Hilton predominately uses Polariod photography with a Polaroid Image camera, but the beauty of his camera is that it has a fault in it. This fault is a perfect example of what artist’s term as “happy accidents”. His Polariod enables him to take these wonderfully dreamy double exposures.

With Hilton now working on a new project looking at identity by using various 70’s Sci-fi films such as “Man fell to earth” with the project incorporating 100’s of Polariod’s which Hilton hopes to then publish as a book.