In a new film by Paul Joyce, David Hockney gives a unique insight into his 40-year love affair with Photography.

Now one of the world’s most influential artists, Hockney’s relationship with Photography started at a young age. Watching Laurel & Hardy films as a child, he noticed that the Californian light created a distinctive tone in the quality of American films. Hockney began to experiment with groundbreaking techniques in the 1970s, creating photo collages such as Nude and the Hitch Hiker (slide 5 above).

Photography soon became central to his investigations as an artist. Hockney on Photography shows the artist in Cologne, Los Angeles, Paris and London as he traces the footsteps of the voyage he made into the creative possibilities of the camera.

Having previously collaborated with Hockney as an author, the film’s director Paul Joyce is given unprecedented access to both the artist and his huge photographic archive. Critic Marco Livingstone and author William Boyd provide additional commentary, giving Hockney on Photography a wide perspective on how the artist redefined Photography.