Tom Hunter - Living in Hell and Other Stories
From the website: Invited by the gallery to produce a new work inspired by paintings in the gallery's permanent collection, Hunter has created a series entitled Living in Hell and Other Stories, a collection of 16 photographs responding to painters as diverse as Velázquez, Ingres, Claude and Rubens. Each updates the forms and language of these centuries-old paintings, relocating them to modern Hackney, where Hunter has lived for the last 20 years, and reworking their subjects to cover present-day issues such as poor housing, gang violence and sex trafficking.
