Discomforts with gender permeated his fine art work from very early and became a key subject by the time he transitioned from female to male in his thirties.

He bought his first camera and darkroom equipment by photographing male athletes at school and selling the photos to their teenage fans.

Millennium Man[5] was his first public exhibition at an arts festival, taking a closer look at men and perceived notions of masculinity in an increasingly 'feminised’ world.

Two decades later his last body of photographic work, interseXion, was a collaboration with black transgender sex workers which took seven years to produce, culminating in a solo exhibition at The Iziko South African National Gallery in Cape Town.

[6] His latest exhibition is Hamblin has no formal art training or tertiary education other than twenty years of mentorship with 1953 Académie Ranson abstract painter Nel Erasmus.

From 2007 to 2009 he was instrumental in the founding of the African organisation Gender DynamiX holding the position of Deputy Director responsible for Advocacy and media liaison from 2009 to 2011.