INTRODUCING HARE CHRISTIAN
I come from a town in southern Sweden called Landskrona, on the coast facing Denmark, where I lived until I was 19. Then I moved to Barcelona, and years later to Copenhagen. Since last year I’m back in Barcelona though. I’m 30. I think I started taking a lot of pictures 6 or 7 years ago, right before moving to Denmark. Once in Denmark I spent all my time alone and didn’t have anyone to share anything with. Taking pictures was a way of documenting what I saw, interpreting it and the evidence that I was still alive, even though no one was around to know about it. Moving back to Barcelona last year was a big change, thrown right back into my social life with all the friends and people around all the time. So now there are people in my photos. I don’t have any specific goals, at the top of my head. I suppose taking photos gives some kind of temporary meaning to my existence. I mean, there is nothing out there really, everything is just what it is, it’s just there, and we all have to give it one meaning or another. If you capture a bit of something, it somehow acquires a meaning, it becomes something, whereas if not captured it would just cease to have been in a way. This picture shows my friend Erik in his sofa. He is one of the best skateboarders I know. When he is not out skating he is at home playing flamenco on his guitar, for hours and hours. He’s is self taught, and everything he does, and he can do anything he wants, he does to perfection. He is a star, but doesn’t do anything to become one. Everything he does, he does out of pure love and dedication, and likes to keep everything to himself. My friend Rafa and his girlfriend Alba are great. I like them because they are very intimate, private, secret and capturing - they capture you. They make things appear special, by showing that it is all empty and meaningless. And, I like them as people.
