Take Me Away: Nicky Hamilton's photographs of the life and times of a Chinese takeaway

The series took eight weeks to produce and a replica of the shop was built as a set in Nicky's studio. "I worked closely with the owner (and original source of inspiration) who loaned the shops pictures for props and also featured in the series as the proprietor," he explains.

The former Head of Art at leading advertising agency M&C Saatchi, Nicky's method is highly cinematic, designing and building elaborate sets to create pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative. His work explores characters’ emotional states by playing with performance and symbolism in order to produce deeply evocative moods.