A collection of images from various projects I worked on from early 1980’s until now. 

Projects are: St. Marks 1986-2006; New York Darkroom; Haynesville; Gig; Brooklyn 11211; Shibuya Scramble; and newly taken images from Bangkok 2020/21

“People, fucking people; it was the key for sure.

Then the death toll, especially in 80s New York. 

Live like you mean it, you could easily be next. 

Love full on.” 

Haynesville#6 Life and Death issue.
Printed September 2019 for the opening of Bangkok Art Book Fair
at Bangkok CityCity Gallery.

96 pages photographs 8x10 inches soft cover
signed and numbered edition of 100.
Published by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition and book launch at STUDIO 35 MINUTES, Tokyo March 2018

2017 April, 'Haynesville Inverted', Jam Factory Gallery, Bangkok.    

Galleri Erik Axl Sund, Stockholm, October 21 - November 20, 2016.

Zine series Hayneville's issue 5.
42 pages photographs 7 x 9.5 inches soft cover.
Signed numbered edition of 80.
Published 2016 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Woke up with an email with the subject line “a proposal”, I assumed it was spam and was about to delete it but for some unknown reason decided to open it.
A few weeks later I found myself in Maison Michel’s atelier in Paris.
It was like being transported back in time.
Craftsmanship, wisdom and old mesmerizing tools.
I was at the same time struck by a “punk rock” spirit, hands moving over material in new and unexpected ways.
This book is a tribute to a truly inspiring group of people who have fundamental knowledge about hat making and a deep mastery in their hands.

102 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches soft cover.
Signed numbered edition of 100.
Published 2016 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at STUDIO 35 MINUTES, Tokyo May 2016

Haynesville by Jesper Haynes

A photographic diary 1972-2016

A ten year old boy leaves Stockholm to visit his grand parents in Texas, USA. On this trip he travels to see his great grand mother in Haynesville, Louisiana, this is where his photographic diary starts, he calls it Haynesville.A series of Individually spray-painted photographs with hand written text.

ジェスパー・ヘインズ写真展

ヘインズヴィル ―写真日誌1972-2016―

10歳の少年が、アメリカ・テキサス州の祖父母に会いにストックホルムを旅立つ。
この旅で彼はさらに曽祖母の暮らすルイジアナ州のヘインズヴィルという町を訪ねる。
−−この地からこの写真日誌、彼が呼ぶところの「ヘインズヴィル」は始まる。

 本展覧会は、写真家ジェスパー・ヘインズが1972年から取り続けている写真日誌”Haynesville(ヘインズヴィル)”の展示となります。写真に手書きの文章とスプレーペイントを施したシリーズを展示致します。お誘い合わせの上、ご来場お待ちしております。

作家プロフィール：

ジェスパー・ヘインズ（Jesper Haynes）

NY在住の写真家。1962年スコットランド・エディンバラ生まれ、スウェーデン・ストックホルム出身。16歳の時にストックホルムを訪れていたアンディ・ウォーホルに出会い、NYへと誘われる。NYに移住後、写真家ラルフ・ギブソンの暗室作業に５年間従事。当時ハドソンストリートとキャナルストリートが交差する辺りにあったラリー・クラークのアパートに住み、すぐそばのクラブAriaに入り浸った。そのうえ日中は暗室で過ごしたため「日の光を見ることがなかった」と本人は振り返る。その頃より、ジェスパーは写真を媒体に自身のボヘミアンな生き方をドキュメントする作風を築いてきた。ストックホルムの現代美術館に作品が永久保存されている。

Hand-made zine series Hayneville's issue 4.

56 pages b/w photographs 8.5 x 11 inches soft cover.
Signed numbered edition of 80.
Random pages are with hand written notes, each issue unique.
Published 2016 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

These images were taken at nighttime overlooking 404 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. They represent a bird’s view of a microcosm of Brooklyn, New York.

I lived in a four-story walkup with a Brazilian restaurant on the ground floor. No one was ever aware of me hanging out of my windows while taking these pictures, except one time when a cop caught me looking down at him through my lens. I had to go down and reassure him I was no danger to him, and making sure that he was no danger to me.

A ten-year-old boy receives his first camera from his grandparents in Haynesville, Louisiana. Living in the moment and preserving it at the same time. HAYNESVILLE is a collection of moments and it exits everywhere I have been and everywhere I’m going.

These images were taken at nighttime overlooking 404 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. They represent a bird’s view of a microcosm of Brooklyn, New York.

I lived in a four-story walkup with a Brazilian restaurant on the ground floor.
No one was ever aware of me hanging out of my windows while taking these pictures, except one time when a cop caught me looking down at him through my lens.
I had to go down and reassure him I was no danger to him, and making sure that he was no danger to me.

174 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches soft cover.
Second printing 2016 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at Speedy Grandma, Bangkok March 2015

After I moved to New York in the early 1980’s I got a job printing black and white in Ralph Gibson’s darkroom, at the same time I lived in Larry Clark’s apartment on Hudson and Canal and next door was my favorite nightclub at the time, Area.

I never saw daylight.

My goal was to shoot one roll of black and white film every day, sometimes I succeeded, often not. 20 years later I had a collection of thousands of rolls of film and for each roll a contact sheet was created, these contact sheets represented my photographic life, it was my diary. We were in love with the city and with the feeling that anything is possible and anything goes.

This is my love story and tribute to New York of the 1980’s.

Hand-made zine series Hayneville's issue 3.

78 pages b/w photographs. 8.5 x 11 inches soft cover.
Signed numbered edition of 100.
Every page is spray-painted by hand including cover.
Published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at Kata Gallery, Tokyo March 2014 

These images were taken at nighttime overlooking 404 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg. They represent a bird’s view of a microcosm of Brooklyn, New York.

I lived in a four-story walkup with a Brazilian restaurant on the ground floor. No one was ever aware of me hanging out of my windows while taking these pictures, except one time when a cop caught me looking down at him through my lens. I had to go down and reassure him I was no danger to him, and making sure that he was no danger to me.

Group exhibition at 327 East 22nd street, New York August 2014

Solo exhibition at Kata Gallery, Tokyo April 2013

I have always loved my life and I love inviting my subjects into the celebration of being alive and loving and abundance. I never understood why people complain and spread negative feelings so I choose to photograph from a place of love.
Have you ever woken up and felt like you just love everybody and everything? This feeling propels me and compels me to connect to any stranger.
This is the heart of my photography.

2012年5月、KATAの杮落しは、80年代のNYクラブカルチャーシーンの写真が話題となった、
NYのフォトグラファー”ジェスパーヘインズ/ニューヨーク・ダークルーム”。
あれから1年、また彼が帰ってくる。

今回のテーマは、家族と友達と恋人のポートレイト。
「人は皆、自分の生きる世界を作り出してそこで生きている。」と話すように
彼の半生を培った人々の写真を、テーマにそってさまざまなプリント方法で展示される。
まっすぐな愛に満ちあふれる、写真家による家族写真をお楽しみください。

ジェスパーヘインズ写真展 「YOU ARE IN LOVE WITH EVERYTHING」
家族、友だち、恋人たちのポートレイト

Solo exhibition at Moose, Bangkok April 2013 

Twelve years ago I stumbled into Gig Groceries, a bar on Sukhumvit soi 16 in Bangkok and it was love at first sight.

Gig was the place to hang out if you were in the art, music and movie indie scene, and the kind of place where anything could and would happen on any given night. Bands would come together and jam, movies would be screened on one of the walls while actors discussed film projects, and anyone who felt inspired to get up and DJ would do so.

It is now more than ten years since Gig Groceries closed, in it’s wake new venues have come and gone yet many of the same people are still in the scene still doing their thing, continuing the Gig spirit.

This is a tribute to Bangkok’s indie scene and to the amazingly gifted and wonderful people that make Bangkok such a great city to explore life’s mysteries in.

"After I moved to New York in the early 1980’s I got a job printing black and white in Ralph Gibson’s darkroom, at the same time I lived in Larry Clark’s apartment on Hudson and Canal and next door was my favorite nightclub at the time, Area. I never saw daylight.
My goal was to shoot one roll of black and white film every day, sometimes I succeeded, often not.
20 years later I had a collection of thousands of rolls of film and for each roll a contact sheet was created, these contact sheets represented my photographic life, it was my diary.
We were in love with the city and with the feeling that anything is possible and anything goes.
This is my love story and tribute to New York of the 1980’s."

156 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches printed on 2 soft cover options, B/W and Red.
Published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at the Space, Bangkok March 2012

"After I moved to New York in the early 1980’s I got a job printing black and white in Ralph Gibson’s darkroom, at the same time I lived in Larry Clark’s apartment on Hudson and Canal and next door was my favorite nightclub at the time, Area. I never saw daylight.
My goal was to shoot one roll of black and white film every day, sometimes I succeeded, often not.
20 years later I had a collection of thousands of rolls of film and for each roll a contact sheet was created, these contact sheets represented my photographic life, it was my diary.
We were in love with the city and with the feeling that anything is possible and anything goes.
This is my love story and tribute to New York of the 1980’s."

156 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches printed on 2 soft cover options, B/W and Red.
Published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Another punky street photography series by Jesper Haynes. Tokyo's Shibuya is famous for its pedestrian scramble or X-crossing - supposedly the busiest in the world. It is here Haynes have been capturing mostly young women from skirt down to shoes hurrying along the streets.

Much like his early book "St. Marks" - "Shibuya Scramble" has a punk aura to it -- raw, personal, grainy black & whites - drawing on punk fanzine aesthetic of the 70s-80s.

174 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches soft cover.
Second edition, published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at Kata Gallery, Tokyo May 2012

"After I moved to New York in the early 1980’s I got a job printing black and white in Ralph Gibson’s darkroom, at the same time I lived in Larry Clark’s apartment on Hudson and Canal and next door was my favorite nightclub at the time, Area. I never saw daylight.
My goal was to shoot one roll of black and white film every day, sometimes I succeeded, often not.
20 years later I had a collection of thousands of rolls of film and for each roll a contact sheet was created, these contact sheets represented my photographic life, it was my diary.
We were in love with the city and with the feeling that anything is possible and anything goes.
This is my love story and tribute to New York of the 1980’s."

写真展 
ニューヨーク・ダークルーム

開催期間:2012年5月11日(金)-26日(土) 時間:月-金 11:30-19:00 / 土・日 イヴェントにより異なります
会場:KATA (*ex.Time Out Cafe & Diner / Gallery Space) [LIQUIDROOM 2F]
所在地:東京都渋谷区東3-16-6 LIQUIDROOM 2階
入場料:無料

*オープニング・レセプションはTime Out Cafe & Dinerの3周年記念パーティーとともに開催致します。
日時:2012年5月10日(木) 19:00-24:00 会場:Time Out Cafe & Diner + KATA[LIQUIDROOM 2F] 入場料:無料
LIVE:MUNEHIRO(acoustic set)、eli walks DJ:MOODMAN(house of liquid)、
DJ KENSEI、DJ NORI(GALLERY/SMOKER/KONTACTO)、コンピューマ
◆5月11日(金)から26日(土)のイベントはhttp://www.kata-gallery.netにて随時発表致します。

奔放で剥き出しな感性の写真家、ジェスパー・ヘインズがTime Out Cafe & Dinerに帰ってくる。 3回目となる今年は、80年代のニューヨーク・オルタナティヴ・シーンの狂騒とエネルギーをとらえた 写真展。ニューヨークが先鋭的でアバンギャルドの代名詞だった一時代を、ボヘミアン的に生きる当事 者の視点で切り取ったポートレイトだ。「ニューヨークとの恋物語」とジェスパーがみなす今回の展覧 会にはアンディ・ウォーホル、キース・ヘリングら、今や伝説となったアート・イコンも登場する。昼 は暗室、夜はバーやクラブで当時を過ごしたジェスパーにとって思い入れのある<ダーク・ルーム(暗 室)>を模した雰囲気の中、観客を彼のニューヨークに誘う。
オープニング・レセプションの夜から4日間はジェスパー・ヘインズ本人が在廊、ニューヨークでの エピソードを語り、来場者のポートレイトを撮影する。

Group exhibition at Hendershot gallery, New York February 2012

Come and Get It! (February 10 - March 16, 2012) features the work of Alben, Daniel Arango, Ghost of a Dream, Jesper Haynes, Ted Noten, Rachel Bee Porter, Tom Sanford, Shelter Serra and Marie Vic, each of whom explores the intersection between popular culture, consumerism and art. While the artist's reference to popular culture is certainly not a new endeavor, the boundary between art and commerce has become increasingly faint. Inspired by bold and overt advertisements scattered throughout Manhattan, the title of this show further exaggerates the sales tactics used to seduce us into making an impulsive purchase. For the duration of this five-week exhibition, Hendershot Gallery has redesigned its gallery space by creating an exhibition design that mimics the retail experience.

A celebration of Bangkoks indie scene 2003-2013.

Twelve years ago I stumbled into Gig Groceries, a bar on Sukhumvit soi 16 in Bangkok and it was love at first sight.

Gig was the place to hang out if you were in the art, music and movie indie scene, and the kind of place where anything could and would happen on any given night.

Bands would come together and jam, movies would be screened on one of the walls while actors discussed film projects, and anyone who felt inspired to get up and DJ would do so.

It is now more than ten years since Gig Groceries closed, in it’s wake new venues have come and gone yet many of the same people are still in the scene still doing their thing, continuing the Gig spirit. 

This is a tribute to Bangkok’s indie scene and to the amazingly gifted and wonderful people that make Bangkok such a great city to explore life’s mysteries in.

184 pages b/w photographs 5.83 × 8.27 inches printed with 4 soft cover options, blue, green, purple and yellow and inside b/w photographs are randomly printed on 4 different tinted paper (blue, green, purple and yellow).
Published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Group exhibition at White Box Gallery, New York November 2011

In 1986, Jesper moved to his apartment on the corner of St. Marks and First Avenue. It was above the St. Mark’s Bar & Grill where the Rolling Stones had just filmed the video for “Waiting on a Friend”. It was to be his home, and the backdrop for much of his photography, for the next 20 years.

Jesper’s apartment became ‘home’ to a wonderful mix of roommates, visitors, friends, lovers, total strangers and people that just needed a place to crash ... or party. It also became the place where he photographed – blurring the lines completely between his life and his art. Everything was spontaneous. ‘I just made sure I had a camera in my hand.’

160 pages b/w photographs, soft cover 5.83 × 8.27 inches.
Third edition, published 2015 by Pinkuneko Publishing, New York.

Solo exhibition at Gallery OneTwentyEight, New York June 2011

In 1986, Jesper moved to his apartment on the corner of St. Marks and First Avenue. It was above the St. Mark’s Bar & Grill where the Rolling Stones had just filmed the video for “Waiting on a Friend”. It was to be his home, and the backdrop for much of his photography, for the next 20 years.

Jesper’s apartment became ‘home’ to a wonderful mix of roommates, visitors, friends, lovers, total strangers and people that just needed a place to crash ... or party. It also became the place where he photographed – blurring the lines completely between his life and his art. Everything was spontaneous. ‘I just made sure I had a camera in my hand.’

" Hi Jesper,

I stumbled upon gallery onetwentyeight today and I can't stop thinking about your exhibit. I can't stop looking at your photographs in your book I purchased. The life in the images oozes out of each one. I feel like I can hear the voices of the beautiful people in your photographs; like I can feel the touch of the skin on skin and the energy shared in each memory. I'm sure it sounds absurd, but your photographs make me feel like your memories are my own.

 I just wanted to send you a note of thanks for sharing your art. Yours aren't just portraits - they're storytellers and dreams that I wish I could have each night.

Love, Amy "

Solo exhibition at Nospace Gallery Bangkok, March 2010

Solo exhibition at Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm November 2009