Garden of delight

In Nick Hannes' photographic approach, which borrows a strong component politics and social, humor, irony, ambiguity and metaphors visuals play a major role. Nick Hannes tries to detach himself from any possible informative value in order to create more universal imagery which deals with the complex relationship we have with each other, with our environment and with our world in general. With the project "Garden of Delight" he works on consumerism, leisure and development artificial urban landscape in Dubai. The series received the Magnum Photography Award in 2017, the Zeiss Photography Award in 2018. Nick Hannes exhibited at the Art Biennale Contemporary of Thessaloniki, at the FoMu Museum of Photography (Antwerp), at the Bozar (Brussels), at the Flanders Center (Osaka, Japan), Visa pour l’Image (Perpignan), Foto Festiwal Lodz, Head On (Sydney), Athens Photo Festival, Foto Istanbul, Hamburg Triennial of Photography etc.