Photo Biography

Kenneth Hanson’s interest in landscape photography derives from his boyhood association with the English Lake District. The shore was a few minutes from his home, the Pennine moors were to the east and the horizon was a profile of the Lakeland mountains. The Himalayas were a part of local legend. They were a place of symbolic exploration and the substance of dreams. It was not until 1986 that he made his first visit to these mountains and his most recent trip was to Pakistan this past summer. He has also photographed in Connecticut and on Cape Cod, the California Sierra, the region of limestone escarpments in England close to his boyhood home and in India.

His basic tool in the process of visual exploration is a 4x5 Toyo view-camera mounted on a sturdy tripod. The camera was purchased in 1978. Since then he has photographed as time allowed. The results have appeared in the Himalayan Research Bulletin, in local juried and invitational shows and in solo exhibits. His preference for a large format camera that lends itself to clarity and directness of statement relates to his former role as a scientist: prior to 1991 he was Senior Research Biochemist at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.