Free program

Join photographer Brenton Hamilton as part of an in-gallery talk series that invites artists featured in Drawn to the Light: 50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College to share insights about their artistic practices and works seen in the exhibition.

Gallery talks will last 45 minutes, take place in the exhibition space unless otherwise noted, and have limited capacity. 

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Brenton Hamilton, MFA has worked on the edges of photography and printmaking for three decades. He devotes his research to the 19th-century processes. Hamilton is a historian and lectures widely on photography in culture. He is a frequent independent curator, draws, paints with various mediums and collects objects from all cultures. Brenton’s work has been collected internationally and also placed in many national cultural institutions: Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine, University of New England, The Farnsworth Museum and Lamar Dodd Art Center’s permanent collection in Georgia and recently the Bates Museum of Art in Lewiston, Maine. His work is handled by TILT Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and The Page Gallery in Camden, Maine. Recently, a 25 Year Retrospective monograph: Brenton Hamilton, A Blue Idyll was published by Schilt Publishing in Amsterdam.