Figure Photography

Woman Reading Possession Order, Cibachrome print, 1997 R: Johannes Vermeer | Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (detail), oil on canvas, c. 1659, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany Tom Hunter concentrates his photography on the people and area where he lives, posing neighbors and acquaintances in tableaux borrowed from Old Masters paintings. The series Persons Unknown depicts squatters living in Hackney in East London, and this image of a young mother