The Lightly Held Gazette
Vol. I, No. 1 Photography by Hannah Lins Los Angeles · 2024

Photographer Finds Light Where Others See Only Rooms

New series documents the particular quality of afternoon — a study in attention

The photographs of Hannah Lins begin in the most ordinary places: a window, a surface catching midday light, a room in the quiet before anything has happened. What they find there is anything but ordinary. "I'm not looking for the dramatic shot," Lins says of her process. "I'm interested in what happens when you slow down enough to see what's already there." Her images resist easy narrative — they exist in the space between documentation and feeling, neither purely one nor the other.

By our arts correspondent

Morning Light, Revisited

The second visit always yields something different. Lins returns to places she has photographed before, finding new light in familiar corners.

Untitled: On the Value of Not Naming

Some photographs resist their titles. Lins leaves these unnamed — a deliberate withholding that opens them up.

Color as a First Language

In "Candy," Lins works with color as a primary communicant — the image arrives through sensation before thought.

Available as archival prints
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Held: On Weight & Tenderness

The title image for the series — everything and nothing made precise.

Gold Hour at the End of Day

The particular amber of late afternoon, held for as long as the shutter allows.

Still: A Complete Sentence

Nothing moves. That is the point. Lins photographs the photograph before it was taken.