Road 8, Victoria 2018 - Edition 1 - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

The work of Melbourne, Australia-based Evan Hancock reflects escapism and illusion conveying a continual fascinating quality across landscapes. His expression utilizes the medium of photography offering a style of documentation meets fine art by referencing classic and timeless portrayals of composition, light and tone. This style is further enhanced in print form with the use of a photographic stock resonate to the results of classic darkroom processing. Evan Hancock’s aim is to draw on his initial feelings and memories of this manual development which allows for the enrichment of deep blacks for contrast yet merge with subtle diffusions and a softening effect of varying mid tones in print form. His latest body of work ‘Light. Ash. White’ is reflective of this emerging trait where he manages to capture the real world amongst naturally surreal compositions steeped with history. The series is ultimately a consideration of his innate vision and the pre-conceiving of feelings matched with his technical tools that derives the outcome. Inevitably it is these ideas and workings that has pushed those outcomes to expose pattern and texture, where imagery is reflective of brush strokes in paintings to lithographs and etchings. His professional experience has explored motion graphic design on small and large format projects across Australia and internationally revealing his innovation and capacity to integrate screen, interactive and experiential across advertising. Utilizing exposure to these formats allows Evan to articulate his storytelling qualities into the medium of photography.