Hans Hansens Analog Project, which the artist has been engaged with since the 1990s, comprises

a more or less complete document of all the equipment, utensils, and materials that he has

needed and accumulated over his many years as a photographer making analogue prints. Is

this collection an evidential record of a worldor rather a photographic practicedocumented

before it disappears, perhaps for good? Does it address a time of upheaval, in which digital media

have begun to dominate the world? Would we use the terminology of crisis and catastrophe to

describe this revolution, which is akin to the turmoil that photography once brought about? And

what kind of archive is being created in the process? (Reinhard Braun)



Hans Hansen, b. 1940 in Bielefeld, completed a training as a lithographer before going on to study

applied graphics at the Kunstakademie Du sseldorf. In 1962 he became a freelance (self-taught)

photographer. He has lived and worked in Hamburg since 1967.