Hi, I´m Hannah.
I'm a Berlin-based part-time artist (if that's even a thing) and work with analogue photography and alternative photographic processes, with a special focus on cyanotype.
After discovering cyanotype, I became fascinated by the unique character of this historic printing process. My work combines photographs, (found) objects and experimental techniques.
Alongside my artistic practice, I host cyanotype workshops in Berlin (and wherever I'm booked), I share my passion for analogue processes and encourage others to explore the magic of creating images by hand.
Contact me for special print requests, commissions, or collaborations.
Through photography, I got to know myself better.
Why photography
Photography opened a door inside me.
When I started to dive deeper into photography, I noticed how much it shows me about myself: what attracts me, what unsettles me, and which small situations feel more honest than big gestures.
Through the camera I see people differently. Sometimes an image becomes a mirror, sometimes it is a quiet way into sides that were not visible before.
It also brings me into uncomfortable situations: asking, getting close, waiting, being visible. That is where growth begins for me.
Berlin
I look for small things in a loud city.
Berlin is crowded, loud, and sometimes too much. At the same time, photography helped me see the city differently: as a collection of blurry moments, dirt in funny constellations, light, glass, and brief encounters.
I came here because I needed a new place to grow. It took time before Berlin felt like arriving. Today I love this city, and sometimes I cannot stand it.
Light, paper, time
Cyanotype slows my gaze down.
In blueprint printing, an image becomes more than a moment: coated paper, sunlight, water, time, and a result that can never be fully controlled.
That is exactly what I like about it. Cyanotype leaves room for mistakes, experiments, and colors created with tea, coffee, or other simple ingredients.
Light becomes more than a moment; it becomes a trace.
Home and process
Creativity is a way back to an honest feeling.
After university, I realized that an old plan no longer fit me. Choosing to follow my inner feeling was not perfectly sorted, but it felt right.
Today I move between Berlin, memories of other places, and a kind of home that is more feeling than fixed point. Bannchen grows from that: closeness, doubt, curiosity, and images that stay.
For portraits, commissions, and cyanotype workshops, send me a direct note.
Fall in love with presence. Fall in love with trying to figure out who you are.
Hannah