Random Access is a collection of John T. Hill's photographs taken over 70 years showing the
remarkable scope and empathy of his vision. Hill's consistent focus over the decades has been
what he calls found compositions recording chance happenings that strike a personal chord.
From a street scene in São Paulo in 1958 to the interior of a Queens taxi in 1970 from John F.
Kennedy at the podium of a 1960 rally to punks in Trafalgar Square from Walker Evans' home to
recent landscapes and still lifes his work is democratic curious all-embracing. Hill
celebrates the contradictions and imperfections of his subjects engages but never
sentimentalizes and is careful to never impose a singular interpretation onto the viewer. Here
is none of the self-congratulation of Look at what only I can see but rather an open
invitation for the viewer of This is what you are also capable of seeing.
