Hans Hansen's 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 world-or rather a photographic practice-documented 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 Dü sseldorf. In 1962 he became a freelance (self-taught) photographer. He has
lived and worked in Hamburg since 1967.
