Häre Christian has been photographing for over twenty years what he sees as he lives: the streets, the people around him, the places he seeks out and moves through. A self-taught and continuous practice, built not on projects or commissions but on direct observation — real subjects, real situations. His images are a way to hold onto things and, at the same time, to show others how he sees them. The name comes from a wordplay: Hare Krishna sounds in Swedish like här är Christian, “here I am, it’s Christian.” Originally from Malmö, he has spent nearly thirty years in Barcelona, with stints in Copenhagen and Paris, and the last two summers in Marseille.

The photographs we selected move across two distant worlds, united by the same gaze: the streets of an Iranian city, with a boy on a skateboard among yellow taxis and bright green buses, and the Swedish countryside, where a figure in a denim jumpsuit picks mushrooms in the woods with a dog in tow. Nothing staged, nothing posed. Just life as it happens, caught in the moment worth keeping.

What makes Häre Christian’s work recognisable is not a style in the technical sense, but a consistency of attitude: the ability to stay close to things without forcing them. His images don’t look for the perfect scene — they look for the right moment. And after twenty years, that search hasn’t run dry; it has simply settled into a visual archive that is also, inevitably, a self-portrait.