About
Hayden loves to explore how photography develops cultural memory, nostalgia, and a sense of historicity. He is interested in how photographs serve as authoritative historical artifacts. In exploring the relative truth values of photojournalistic images, he examines city landscapes as a multidimensional, cultural sieve through which ‘kairos’ can emerge.
Kairos is the representation of logos and cosmos come together. That instant in which the order or the world releases meaning, like a poem in celebration of the event. A brief and intense moment, when the world reveals itself, before chaos returns. When light and shade are perfectly in balance, in which clarity emerges amid a confusion of forms. That decisive moment the patient observer of the world is there to cherish.
Hayden graduated from Carleton College in 2016 with a BA in Physics and Astronomy. At Carleton, Hayden studied pulsar emission geometry, french culture, and political theory. He enjoys yoga, hiking, cooking, biking, camping, Sumatran coffee, and the mystery of existence.
Hayden lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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Instagram - @haydentornabene
