Your name
The Hays (Charlie and Dagny Hay).
Place of birth
Lillhärdal, Sweden and Sandefjord, Norway.
Place where you live now
In the winter and summer we live on a farm in Sweden–and the rest of the time we travel near and far.
3 words to describe you
Curious, diligent and friendly.
Why do you take pictures?
As a duo we photograph to find a common language and to get to know each other even better.
Where do you get your inspiration?
Laughter. The biggest inspiration for us is love, the fact that we found each other through photography and dedicated our lives to it is at the base of our work.
Who are your influences?
Meeting the incredible artist duo Pixy and Moro made a real impression on our ideas of love, work and play, and of course working for the master of large-format photography Dag Alveng has influenced the both of us.
What determines the subject matter you choose?
We are both into landscape photography, not because we study photographers that do landscape photography, but because we like spending time outdoors. With the images we create together we aim to tell stories full of spirit, and there is no better way to tell those stories than with a face (emotion) or some kind of dynamic motion.
What impact would you like your art to have?
To spread love.
What artwork do you never get bored with?
Jeff Wall (after Hokusai) A Sudden Gust of Wind and Magritte's L'Empire des lumières.
Is there anything you want to add?

What the fuck do they know about love
Project statement

”The first kiss, the latest, the best one (so far) one of sorrow and the rest of love. I remember them happy, sad, lit, chaste, horny, ten thousand folds. Still in love. That time you held my hand for the very first time or when I proposed, or was it you? All of the times I said no, although I think it was a yes. I can’t believe that you spat a hip-hopper from Hamar in his face after that first one. This is not my wedding speech but maybe it should’ve been. Have a cigarette, c’mon! Don’t only practice being healthy. It is not your style.

A Summer’s Day marks the first time I laid eyes on you. That sentence, it isn’t true, but I wish it was. I just about told you, you look perfect. What more do you ask of me for today? Words can be so ugly and beautiful, that when they’re spoken they can never be unsaid, or so visible but inaudible that I don’t know how to be able to say them.

Close your eyes and see.”

The Hays
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