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    ¥ AgPLACE IN THE SUN DAVID HAMILTON A PLACE IN THE SUN “To all the good things that went away and had the sense never to return” THOMAS Each person’s idea of a place in the sun, their personal Utopia, is quite different : it may be east of the sun or west of the moon. It may be Camelot or Atlantis, Eldorado or Avalon. For some it is a cottage with roses around the door, for others a mountain top, and for many just a simple but contented life. Gauguin found his particular place in the sun in Tahiti, D-H. Lawrence in Mexico and Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida. Life ought to be a quest to find one’s own place in the sun. To spend a day on some tropical beach is for many people their ultimate heaven, an opportunity to relax, be free and revel in total hedonism But that special place we search for can be completely imaginary : somewhere that we keep inside our head to retreat to when the world is cold and hostile, or aspire to and dream about. It is a personal haven that can often only be seen in the mind’s eye. Emerson said “Whoso would be a man must be a non- conformist,” I think from the earliest years I have never wanted to conform. I rebelled in subtle yet important ways against the mundane world into which I was born. I would never accept life as it was presented to me, but was always searching and reaching for something better. I fled London for more glamorous Paris, away from Anglo- saxon attitudes and restrictions and followed in the foot- steps of Byron and Maugham (to name but two). I went further South and East to friendlier climates and tolerance. For over thirty years I have travelled the world, photo- graphing and enjoying not just one, but many places in the sun. They represent times of happiness and fulfilment for me when I have been able to bring to fruition photogra- phic projects and ideas that have long fascinated me. To visit Tahiti and find the colours and shapes that Gauguin discovered, and to translate them into another form of art has been extremely satisfying. These pictures are not an attempt to mimic Gauguin but to pay homage to his art. Travelling to these distant and sunny lands, little by little I discovered my own place in the sun, where I could live my life in my own way, live and not just merely exist, viewing the world, creating order out of chaos, moulding nature’s bounty into a momentary and highly personal iconography. My own celebration of life and ode to all beautiful things. I have been fortunate in finding my own personal hea- vens both physically and mentally. Staying away from too much responsibility, combining travel with creativity, hedonism, beauty and satisfaction is an extraordinary experience. Sometimes in my special places I have relished the solitariness and awareness of being, but often other people have added an extra dimension : beautiful young girls, intelligent men, the rich and famous, people who have something special to offer, who can expand life, round it out and communicate their enjoyments and life- styles. The world I live in is an enviable one, but the materialis- tic aspect are far from being of great importance. Logan Pearsall Smith asked “How can you say my life is not a success ? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten ?” To have food and to remain whole is what man aspires to. These essentials do equate to success and this, I believe, is what I have achie- ved : a sufficiency to meet my needs that gives me the free- dom to remain whole and enjoy my place in the sun! (lad thir bea-pymph een stapalcl on He bach, ov Wad? ne sar a young girl ering Ar Ke poring Fer 2. Beat, OF Z O Mhaough the pores? of the Oteah. Ard MOU, Kaige bit TS cannot wae hale, L007 0 Meet aKe t¥7 Ber. ORSON The Korey of hee ofan AS, cack and wire tA Ker Saeed trie tam (Hake “The blue tea cor che bige Sard AoA; And pralteS, ard 724 nA fuente, Keen stlete ana eG on totek. ~ Ad the sunset Cath on the "Gage Band foc galert of ph, ane Of, We? lepat, - of Ge (Sean Goa - ae. Y SConacir, MA tthe AA A glowier” Gok oa. 7 tr

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