In the series New Landscapes the photographs are taken from famous metropolises, buildings, factories, cemeteries, airports, towers - mostly strategically important places involving a mixture of lights in the scenery and a long exposure so that they become almost like short movies. These urban landscapes are basically drawings of body movements that can be seen on photographic material as rhythmical light lines where subject and the scenery melt into a single image. Pictorial motifs are divided into different surfaces; the abstraction and pictorial surface, into the human presence (breathing, heartbeat, laughter, talking, walking during the exposure time) and into the photography as media which in this case is moving closer a painting. The subject is still strongly presented, whereas the object - the scenery- is estranged and thus becomes easier to deal with. The works are often named geographically: Basel, New York´s Brooklyn Bridge, the Airport of Ponta Delgata, the port of Helsinki, the A5 autobahn in Germany. The New Landscapes follows my sociological interest towards individual who is sensing, understanding and placing herself in the outside world. The figurative language; minimalism and the reduction of information is more a visual method, which have references to symbolic or linguistic meanings (emptiness, infinity) but also it can been seen as an art historical references to modernist painting. As a result of all these pictures become concentrated narrations of recognition and moment aswell as large colour abstractions that have profound significance of the surrounding reality.

“Nanna Hänninen documents with seismographic precision, the interplay between the movements of the real world before her eyes and her own world, her movements, her breathing and laughter, her hesitation. What we find here are highly abstract photographs with semi-translucent, intangible backgrounds and sketchy undulating movements, with lines contracting, expanding and entangling, with fields and clusters of color.” (Urs Stahel, 2007.)