Edoardo Hahn (Turin, 1962) lives and works in Sessame, a village in Northern Italy. Self-taught, he initially worked with several photo agencies and later as a freelance photographer, mainly in the fields of industrial and architectural photography.
His artistic research begins with the ordinary: objects, surfaces, fragments of landscape and marginal situations. Rather than using photography to describe or explain them, Hahn isolates these fragments from their context, temporarily freeing the images from the obligation to represent what they came from. Once detached, images can enter into new relationships. Montage has become increasingly central to his practice: through sequencing, repetition and juxtaposition, their meaning can shift and what they seem to represent becomes less certain. The photograph is therefore not simply a trace of something that has been seen or experienced, but a presence in its own right — a way of making reality uncertain, unfamiliar and open to perception again.
His practice develops through photographic projects that often grow out of previous research and can take the form of installations, videos and artist books, allowing one form to extend into another. The book in particular has played an important role in his practice, conceived not simply as a container for photographs but as a space in which images are sequenced, displaced and brought into relation. He published Landscape Materials (L’Artiere) in 2015 and 52 Pictures in 2017. In 2016, Landscape Materials was exhibited in Arles during Les Rencontres de la Photographie and presented at Paris Photo. Since 2021 he has been working on Quaderni Sessamesi, an ongoing series of books exploring his relationship with the landscape surrounding him.
His work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Recent solo exhibitions include Variazioni (Palazzo Chiabrera, Acqui Terme, 2024), Timeland (Cantina Comunale, La Morra, 2023), curated by Lisa Parola, and Suite pour l’Invisible (Fondazione Cesare Pavese, Santo Stefano Belbo, 2022). Recent group exhibitions include Camera (Spazio Arte, Bubbio, 2026). In 2023, Campionario was selected as a finalist for the Terna Driving Energy Award and exhibited at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome.
Campionario, 2023 — Triptych. Elogio dell’Equilibrio, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome. Finalist, Terna Driving Energy Award 2023.