“It’s almost like I created an Americanised view of an English town,” says Callum Hansen of his first solo show, which captures his friends in the English midlands during the pandemic.
A few years later, the photographer – now 22 and currently studying at Central Saint Martins – has exhibited the resulting body of chromogenic prints in his first solo show,Paying homage to those whimsical yet uncertain years set against an idyllic, bucolic landscape,“When you grow up in a small town, you’re faced with an inevitable crossroads. Either your friends stay, or they can’t wait to leave” Hansen says to AnOther.
A quiet observer preferring to dwell on the sidelines, he escaped the boredom and alienation of his early teen years by animatedly researching the history of photography, finding inspiration from American photographers who romanticise youth and skateboarding culture, as well as life in the suburbs:Photography became a form of refuge and escapism.
Thus, the idealising of American youth culture served as a springboard into photography for Hansen – a nod to his artistic heroes but also a yearning for his roots.The group of friends – largely comprised of boys who enjoy skateboarding and rebelling against the conformity of their small townimagined alternative, far-reaching possibilities. But it wasn’t all fun and games. “Boyhood and the pressures that come with that were definitely felt in our town,” Hansen adds.
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