Siegfried Hansen, born in 1961, is a photographer, author and coach and is one of the most renowned German street photographers.
Since 2022 he is Leica Masterclass Referent from the German Leica Akademie. His work has been presented worldwide in solo and group exhibitions. He is co-founder of the “German Street Photography Festival” and the website “German Street Photography”. Hansen’s works are also represented in several photo books.
His own books “Hold the Line” and “The flow of the lines” have been published very successfully. His latest books together with Pia Parolin “Mit offenen Augen” + “StreetPhotography Praxis” is a factual and guide for streetphotography and explains in great detail the “PILOT” system developed by Hansen.
“In 2002 I saw an exhibition by Andre Kertesz by chance and it impressed me so much that I changed my profession and wanted to become a photographer. For my photographic development it was and has always been good to be inspired by other photographers. Henri Cartier Bresson, Ernst Haas, Ray K.Metzker and Saul Leiter are photographers whose works I still enjoy looking at. Even painters such as Piet Mondrian, Lyonel Feininger and Edward Hopper have also influenced my artistic development.
For me, the camera is the tool through which I express my creativity, like the brush for the painter.“
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