Thu, Feb 9, 2012
Commissioned by The National Gallery as part of the major public show 'Seduced by Art'. The film re-stages an early photographic portrait of Lady Eastlake by the pioneering photographers David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Inspired by the heavily staged photography of the duo's work, the film lays bare the many tricks and illusions at work in the construction of an apparently simple single image.