Alyson Hunter's photography shows an interest in the interaction between two or more people and the relationship illustrated their movements in reaction to each other.

Her photographs have an urban London feel; even though she says the influences on her photography have been the early black and white films she was taken to as a child at the Auckland film Society, such as 'Bicycle Thieves' 1948, director Vittorio de Sica, 'The Kidnappers'1953, director Philip Leacock, and later at the Royal College Film Club, seeing films directed by Fellini and Fassbinder.

Hunter says 'With photography it is the excitement of seeing something that you want to capture as an image, and yet to capture it, you have to use this machine that sees so little that you see, and you have to have an understanding of the physics of the scene, and how you can manipulate the best out of the physics of the camera, and yet there is this third thing as well, that is invisible, that is time, the split second that you must use to capture the present.

And this also means the time we are in, all those unremarkable invisible points- the way we look at life, the camera itself, the film or card, also the clothes, the faces that we choose to photograph-that place us so carefully where we are in our time. That is the strength of still photography, it is what we cannot see, which gives it power.'