Hank Gans was an award winner Manhattan-based commercial photographer for decades before attempting a personal project in the Four Corners area of the American Southwest while living with the Hopi Tribe and teaching photography on the reservation college for several years. Moving to Maine because his wife "had to return to water", Hank did not resume his commercial photography but, rather, did still photography for feature films, bringing about his relocation to Hollywood, California for almost a decade. He remarried and settled opposite Manhattan on the western banks of the Hudson River where he teaches photography at The Art School at Old Church and also conducts workshops in coastal Maine and San Gimignano, Italy.
