Pepe Hanze

Born and raised in downtown Guayaquil, Ecuador, with Lebanese roots form both my mother and my father side of the family I am used to be around people all the time.Growing up I was not into sports, which made me spend a a lot of time , sometimes an entire days watching through my room window what happened outside on the streets. I t was the 1990’s when I found a rangefinder camera in on of my mothers drawers. Since then I have a camera attach to my hand. At that time it was safe to go out by myself to explore the streets alone. I think my photography is the result of my childhood memories, long walks and the person I became when I met my wife. Streets tell stories and being able to tell , document and develop them is my passion. At 18 I learned to develop film and print in a darkroom, I made an improvise darkroom in my bathroom. I like to document people and being welcome to their most personal spaces, as a lonely spectator, at their own silence like old street photography. I have a fascination for shadows, lines and shapes. With my photography I am able to materialize what I feel.
Exhibitions:
The Avant-Garde and Latin America Photography. Poetics and Discourse of the Modern Gaze. 15 Noviembre 2014 Miami.
Nominimo Circa 2016 Samborondon Ecuador.
Nominimo Circa 2017 Samborondon Ecuador.
Galeria de La Fuente Solo exhibition “Recuerdos de Cuba.