Nick Hannes

‘Facing Brussels’ goes Japan

The group exhibition ‘Facing Brussels’ will be exhibited in the gallery of the Flanders Center in Osaka, Japan, from February 14 to 26. ‘Facing Brussels’, an initiative of photographer’s collective Nadaar is a portrait of the Belgian capital, made by 11 Belgian photographers: Eric De Mildt, Tim Dirven, Nick Hannes, Jan Locus, Dieter Telemans, Loic Delvaulx, Marine Dricot, Philippe Herbet, Jimmy Kets, Wim Knapen and Alain Schroeder. In the summer of 2010 Facing Brussels has been exhibited in the Belvue Museum in Brussels.
Go to Nadaar

Blond

The February issue of Goedele magazine features a compilation of photographs I made throughout the last 4 years. Subject: Blond women. I photographed most of them during trips in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia and, more rencently, in Spain. Here are the tearsheets.

Finisterre

‘Finisterre: State of the art of the young photography in Belgium”: Opening group show at Photo Museum Antwerp next tuesday, February 8, 2011, at 7PM. I participate with 4 works of my series ‘Green Line’, made in Cyprus last year.

Installation shot of my photographs in the exhibition at the FotoMuseum

Red Journey reprinted

My book ‘Red Journey’ has been reprinted. The first edition, printed on 1500 copies, was sold out after a year. Another 1000 copies are available again in the bookshops.
Go to PhotoQ

El Puercoespin

The website ‘El Puercoespin’ has published a series of photographs from ‘Red Journey’. Elpuercoespin.com.ar is a new digital magazine on politics, journalism and literature founded by two journalists in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

From the site:
“Pasé un año viajando por las quince ex repúblicas soviéticas en busca de rastros del pasado y de signos de transición social. Esta serie, “Red Journey”, descubre las diversas maneras en que los paises de la ex Unión Soviética intentan redefinir sus identidades nacionales después de la desintegración del imperio comunista. Muestra una región de contrastes, de extrema riqueza y descorazonadora pobreza, renovación urbana sin límite que hace aún más visibles los barrios carenciados, nuevo culto a la personalidad de dictadores en una escenografía de gloria perdida.”
Go to El Puercoespin

Die Zeit

The German Zeit Magazin published a photograph from ‘Red Journey’ (right). Half a picture actually…
‘Strandurlaub am Kaspischen Meer, Badeöl gratis.’

El Faro de Ceuta

The Spanish newspaper El Faro de Ceuta published an interview with me last week.
Read full interview here.

Morocco

I arrived in Tanger, Morocco, this afternoon, to continue working on my Mediterranean project. From here I will follow the coast eastwards, via the Spanish territories Ceuta and Melilla, to finish in the city of Oujda near the Algerian border in two weeks.
From the airplane window I had a wonderfull view on the Strait of Gibraltar and the ‘Pillars of Hercules’. Old Tanger is overwhelming at first sight. Lively, shabby, inspiring. I think I’ll need a day to get acclimatized to the north African way of life.
The Gran Teatro de Cervantes is a remnant of the days when Spaniards formed the largest non-Moroccan community in Tanger. It opened its doors in 1913 and was very popular between the two world wars. Today nobody seems to care about it. It’s sad to see such an architectural pearl die. I climbed up a roof to make this photograph.

Neue Zurcher Zeitung

Last week the Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung showed 5 photographs from my book ‘Red Journey’. Every day of the week a single picture was published in the “Foto-Tableau”-feature.

Link to the online article in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

DWB

My photograph of the abandoned airport terminal of Nicosia, Cyprus, is on the cover of literary magazine DWB (Dietsche Warande & Belfort). The december issue showcases a ‘State of the art of young photography in Belgium’, curated by Inge Henneman.

Twee citaten uit Inge Hennemans essay “Finisterre: kijken vanuit het verste punt. State of the art van de jonge fotografie in België”:

“Nick Hannes noemt zijn foto’s van een ontmijnde site nabij Sarajevo, of van de Green Line op Cyprus die Grieken en Turken scheidt ‘getroebleerde landschappen’. Het beeld van de luchthaven van Nicosia is hallucinant. De legende vertelt dat op deze plek in 1974, het moment van de belegering van Turkse troepen in het noordelijk deel van Cyprus, de tijd is blijven stilstaan. De luchthaven stopte alle activiteiten en werd tot op vandaag United Nations Protected Area (UNPA). Deze hedendaagse ruïne wordt bewaard als een soort diorama van een politieke aardschok, een constructie van een tijdperk dat teloor is gegaan.”

“Snelheid is geen troef meer nu fotografie als massamedium voorbij is gesneld door real time streaming en andere elektronische en digitale media. Fotografie is een traag en contemplatief medium geworden”.

To DWB