This photographic base was shot in San Francisco, California
Printed on Fine Art Hahnemühle Hemp Natural Line 290 g/m2.
Each print comes signed and numbered.
Unframed. With a small white border. Send in a tube.
Print size 90 x 75 cm - Edition of 10
Print size 60 x 50 cm - Edition of 10.
Print size 30 x 25 cm - Edition of 10.
Print size 10,5 x 14,8 cm (DIN A6) - Edition of 100.
Thomas Haensgen’s work Traveling feels like that fleeting moment when you’re standing by an airport window, holding a croissant that’s halfway submerged in your coffee, wondering if that seagull out there might actually be faster than your delayed flight. This piece isn’t just a photograph; it’s an allegory for transience—of movement, of perception.
In the foreground, a seagull floats by, seemingly in a hurry yet deliberately blurred, like a thought slipping out of reach. The sky—monumental yet serene—evokes the spirit of Romanticism. Caspar David Friedrich might have borrowed these clouds for one of his melancholy strolls, had Photoshop been an option for him. Yet Haensgen doesn’t lead us into a romantic wilderness but instead captures the liminal space of travel itself—a suspension between departure and destination, reality and dream.
The work echoes the atmospheric mastery of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s long-exposure photography, where the ephemeral is distilled into something eternal. Here, though, there’s a playful resignation toward precision, as if Haensgen moved the camera on purpose just to say, “There’s no such thing as perfection, only velocity.”
What makes this piece so extraordinary is its absurd realism: the viewer recognizes the seagull, the clouds—they’re undeniably familiar. But Haensgen has this uncanny ability to transform these mundane elements into something with the existential weight of an essay—penned by someone who’s spent the entire day waiting for their laptop to finally boot up. This isn’t just a photograph; it’s a conversation between wind, light, and that nervous twitch in your eyelid wondering if it, too, could simply take off and fly.
Traveling finds its place somewhere between minimalism and the poetry of chance, using the carefree escape of a bird as a universal commentary on the accelerating framework of modern life. And it is precisely here, in the chaos of motion, that its profound calm resides.
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