Spencer Hansen is a wanderer. For the past five years, he has moved between different landscapes, with his camera acting as a constant. In his travels, he weaves together disparate environments, bridging the visual and the visceral and leaving behind a filmic roadtrip.

Hansen's childhood was characterized by daydreams and creativity. As a devout Mormon, he was taught that mankind is raised up and set apart from other animals. He grew up believing that humans are all Gods in embryo, and life is just one stop along the path to perfection and omnipotence.

Arriving in the Bay Area in the early 2000s, Hansen was promptly confronted with the fervor of urban life. He found San Francisco fascinating. The city's borders bowed under its inhabitants' chaotic energy. He witnessed discord and nihilism: a zoo-like display of voyeurs and exhibitionists. While people went about their everyday routines and obligations, there was an undercurrent of conflict. Hansen realized that people were, in fact, animals: victims of instinct. Ironically, he had discovered the primitive in a highly cosmopolitan setting.

Hansen's photographs represent the primal desires within all of us. They draw awareness to the impetus that actually drives us as we scurry to fulfill the necessities of daily life and conform to a socially structured environment of supposed order. This dissonance appears as a theme across Hansen's work. Through his lens, Hansen seeks to reconcile his childhood beliefs with the reality of the human experience. He wishes to expand the apparent realism inherent in the photographic medium to an even greater truth.

Hansen's travel-lust has taken him all over the world, but he always returns to the tropics of Bali, the culture of San Francisco and the respite of the Idaho mountains. In addition to photography and digital media, Spencer has a clothing line called Heathen and a toy company called Blamo.