selected / photo archive 1992 - 1989:

The Picnic series (1991) & JC series (1990/92) 

Landscape In Serial Shadow  (1989)

 9 c photographs in series   (Germany)

Hanson made the above series (Landscape in Serial Shadow) from the window of the plane approaching Berlin. "I was just taking pictures of the shadow of the jumbo jet. Looking back now it seems right that they appear in series, a growing shadow looming over the quiet forest and farmland coming into the craziness of the city. To me its a giant eagle coming home to nest. Its incredible that from such an optimistic time and moment, the happiness and horrors that would unfold across Europe over the next decade. This picture is also a reference to that".

"I'd been in London for almost a year. Its Autumn 1989 and Europe is stirring. Almost quiet suddenly (or so it seems) people power forces the collapse of the Berlin Wall, both literally and politically.  Revolution!. And I want to be there. A few days earlier by chance I meet a group of Americans (producers of west coast skate videos at the time) staying in London. We decide this is something we have to see. They buy me a ticket and we arrive in a freezing cold but very hot Berlin. Its the first weekend since people had first jumped the wall and the atmosphere is electric. Everywhere something amazing is happening; kids pushing their bikes aside and dancing by Brandenburg Gate, people in tiny cars with big smiles waving through old checkpoint charlie, a woman in a fur coat smashing into the wall with a sledge-hammer, old people laughing, crying, embracing. I don't sleep for three days. Everywhere I turn there is another picture and I have to work fast. It is the best weekend of my life."

go to: selected Photo Archive (1988 - 86)