David Hamilton

The man who painted with his lens, David Hamilton, was born in the heart of London, England in 1933, and his active years in the film industry were from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. Known for his dreamlike aesthetics in art house and erotic genres, his most famous films include "Bilitis," "Laura: Shadows of a Summer," and "Tendres Cousines," but he has never been recognized with awards at major film festivals. Hamilton's authorial style is characterized by his use of soft focus and diffused light to create an ethereal, almost impressionistic, quality in his films. As a person, David Hamilton was a true artist, capturing beauty and youth in a way that made his audience see the world through his unique, if controversial, lens.