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Aaron Dickson

Aaron Dickson (born 1980) is a Northern Irish artist specialising in photography. He lives in his birthplace of Northern Ireland.

Life and work
Dickson graduated from the New Zealand Film & Television School in Wellington, New Zealand in 2009 where his tutors included John Reid and Geoff Murphy. In 2016 he gained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Ulster University, Belfast where his tutors included Paul Seawright, Donovan Wylie and Martin Parr.

His first photographic project entitled Notes On Hospitals looked at the developing crisis within Northern Irish hospitals. Cliff Lauson, curator of London's Hayward Gallery commented, "I find it quite difficult to imagine a hospital without people in it; like a school or a theatre, people define these places. Dickson's photography of the interiors of a number of Irish hospitals provides a trail of unpopulated photographs.  It's hard to tell if the hospitals have been abandoned or are in use as his images are very sparse and uncluttered. I particularly like the way that Dickson has considered light in his images - balancing natural exterior light with the harsher casts of interior functional and efficient lighting." An image from the project was awarded silver medal at the Tokyo International Foto Awards and commended at the Sony World Photography Awards 2017.

Exhibitions

 * Royal Hibernian Academy 187th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland (2017)
 * Sony World Photography Awards, London, England (2017)
 * Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, Japan (2016)
 * Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin, Ireland (2016)
 * Royal Ulster Academy 135th Annual Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2016)
 * UU MFA, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2016)
 * PhotoIreland Festival (2016)
 * Octo, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2016)
 * Pause, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2015)