Artist
Lottie Hampson
London-born Lottie Hampson is a photographer and artist who splits her time between the UK and Mallorca. She studied at Central St Martins and Edinburgh College of Art.
Her artistic practice often starts with analogue film photography that spans all formats, with which she photographs the world around her. Using film helps her to slow down, and the images she takes are often a quiet meditation on her surroundings; slowly building a sense of place through observations of light and landscapes, and fragments of the people that inhabit it.
Switching between her many cameras, her practice often involves developing and printing her own photographs, maximising the relationship with her work in a 'satisfying and exciting process'.
Read 'In The Studio With Lottie Hampson' and 'Work In Progress With Lottie Hampson'
Lottie's Style
Lottie is fascinated by the ever-present connection between people and the landscape surrounding them. These photographs often provide inspiration for further works such as hand-made books, photo-intaglio and cyanotypes. Lottie has exhibited widely in London, Edinburgh and Wales and was the runner up for the Scottish Portrait Award.
Alongside her photography practice, Lottie works in helping facilitate artist residency programmes in various countries.
She says: “My work acts as a visual diary for me, but I hope that they would evoke a sense of calm for a viewer. I like my photos to look timeless, so they can provide a view into a world in which viewers could imagine themselves.”
"I hope these photos build a sense of place through observations of light, landscapes, and fragments of the people and creatures that inhabit them. They are an exploration of time passing; a quiet meditation on the relationship we hold to our encompassing environments." - Lottie Hampson
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November Drop 2024
"This year I have continuously documented still life studies at home on an old Polaroid camera from the 1970s. Playing with process, I transformed the prints into polaroid lifts on watercolour papers; each result an unpredictable outcome and a unique print." — Lottie Hampson, Polaroids
March Drop 2024
“Inspired by Cy Twombly’s dreamlike photographs of fruit and flowers in his painting studio, I recently purchased a Polaroid camera. As a film photographer I am usually left waiting for film to be developed before I can see what my camera has captured. With the polaroid camera there was none of this. The immediacy of using it has been such an exciting process for me. Not knowing how to fully control a new (and yet very old) camera is humbling and exciting, and each photo felt like a surprise waiting to develop. I experimented with my new camera by photographing flowers in my home studio and at Kew gardens. Experiments usually turn out the best because there is less expectation, and I really loved these initial photographs.
So I continued the experimentation; firstly by blowing up the photos to a large scale. The quality of the polaroid’s is so soft, that when blown up, they have a painterly quality, complete with all the ghostly little marks on the photo that occur from a combination of the camera mechanics and the environment that the photo is exposed to whilst developing.
After that I played with emulsion lifts on watercolour paper; a process that involves coaxing the instant prints from their original backings. Like shooting polaroid film, the outcome of each print was a guessing game, each resulting in a delicate unique artwork.” - Lottie Hampson, Angels Trumpet
November Drop 2023
“Field Daisies belongs to a collection of my favourite photographs taken over the year, from Norfolk to Corfu to Mallorca. Captured on 35mm film using an analogue camera, they encourage a slower and closer look at the natural world” - Lottie Hampson, Field Daisies
Feb Drop 2023
"Shot on black and white film, Swimmers is a collection of photos that’s very special to me. Memories of time spent by the water- whether a pool, a river, the sea or the ponds. There is a sense of timelessness and grace to the subjects; people and swans alike." - Lottie Hampson, Swimmers
Drop 2 - Summer 2022
"Ever since I started taking photos they have acted as a sort of visual diary for me. Taken to be printed out and stuck in a notebook; annotated, drawn on, left to gather marks and scratches, and to mark a moment in time.
These photos act as a reminder for moments otherwise forgotten. The after breakfast scatterings on the table. Crumpled sheets on a bed not yet made for the day. Water lilies taken during a photography job at Kew Gardens which distracted me from the photos I was meant to be taking…
The time when I tried to learn Spanish by only learning what the words for breakfast items are… Idiosyncratic thoughts and moments on places and spaces that I felt deserved documenting over the past couple of years. They are markers of life." - Lottie Hampson, Diary
A Sense of Place
"My launch collection is a series of photographs from my ongoing project ‘A Sense of Place’. For years I have spent time photographing my surroundings as I travel, shooting on both colour and black and white film in various formats.
Documenting places from South Wales to India to Iceland, I hope these photos build a sense of place through observations of light, landscapes, and fragments of the people and creatures that inhabit them. They are an exploration of time passing; a quiet meditation on the relationship we hold to our encompassing environments.
I like to use mainly analogue techniques so as to slow down my way of viewing my surroundings. These prints are a mixture of digital and hand made prints in both colour and black and white darkrooms." - Lottie Hampson, A Sense of Place