CHARLOTTE; NC.- The Mint Museum presents the exhibit Vantage Point VI Tom Hunter: Contemporary Narratives through July 8, 2007. Tom Hunter uses as his principle subject the lives and homes in his local community in Hackney, including the squatters and travelers he regularly encounters. He creates meticulously composed photographs that have art historical references, specifically referencing the paintings of Vermeer and the Pre-Raphaelites, in his series, Persons Unknown and Life and Death in Hackney, respectively. Though refracted though historical traditions, Hunter's photographs directly engage with the modern (or postmodern) world. His photographs walk the fine line of documentative anthropology and sensuous beauty.

Tom Hunter is a London-based photographer whose work has earned the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award, and was given the very first solo photography show at the 168-year-old National Gallery. Hunter brings in as subjects the squatters, travelers, and all-around outsiders of his own Hackney community, making a contemporary political statement while giving a nod to the classic Vermeer and Pre-Raphaelite paintings on which many of his works are based. Selections from his Persons Unknown series, Life and Death in Hackney series, and Headlines series will be shown in the Dickson Gallery.