Hans Neumann Studio

Overview

More than twenty years after leaving Peru, Hans Neumann returned to Lima – not to document the city as it is today, but to reconstruct the emotional landscape of the years before his departure. Working with a new generation of young Limeños, Still Moving revisits adolescence through portraits, landscapes, interiors, and carefully staged scenes that exist somewhere between observation and invention. Rather than recreating the past faithfully, the photographs explore how memory transforms places over time and how belonging continues to evolve long after we leave home. Neither documentary nor fiction, Still Moving asks a simple question: What remains of a place once we’ve left it?

Two young people sit on a bed in warm window light.

A young woman sits beside a shirtless young man on a bed.

Three students in plaid uniforms gather on a staircase.

A student in a red sweater lies on a sunlit bed.

A group of students gathers in a living room.

A group of young people gathered in a living room, photographed in black and white.

Two pairs of socked legs cross a carpeted room.

Four young women relax together on a bed.

A group of young people poses on rocks beside the sea.

Two young people ride a scooter, blurred in motion.