© Galleri Nicolai Wallner, A Kassen, A Permanent Reflection (2013) Photo: Anders Sune Berg

A Kassen – Permanent Reflection
Galleri Nicolai Wallner

The solo exhibition with A Kassen at Galleri Nicolai Wallner, is a site specific installation, consisting of four photographs, placed in two seperate corners of the exhibition space. The images seem to be distorted by reflections from the framing glass, but these permanent reflections, are actually the subject of the work.

This play with our spatial understanding should be physically experienced, since the work places the viewer in a participatory position, which is why the physical presence is crucial.

Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Ny Carlsbergvej 68
Kbh V

Closing May 18th

HIPSTAGRAM FTW*
In connection to Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013 “HIPSTAGRAM FTW” will be launched – a competition and exhibition, consisting of photos taken by photographers using Smart Phone APP filters.

The use of Smart Phone filters in combination with Social Media, have made the act of taking photos a new daily ritual and way of sharing life and situations with people in a Social Network. Since there is no question that this is part of the future of photography, it will be highlighted, investigated and discussed as a new aspect for the world of photography.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Send up to ten (10) images per photographer, either as individual photos or as part of a series.

The photos should be sent either one by one, or as a dropbox.com link to the email address: hipstagram@copenhagenphotofestival.com

Take the photos during this lovely month of May 2013, or use ones you´ve taken before.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 29TH OF MAY

CATEGORIES ARE:

> Landscape
> Portrait
> Everyday Poetry – in a series of at least 5 photos.

JUDGES: 
Rasmus Ranum – Co-founder Copenhagen Photo Festival and owner of SUMO Photo Agency
Kristine Kern – Director of Photographic Center of Copenhagen
Per Folkver – Photographer and Photo Editor of the Danish Newspaper Politiken
Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen – Artist, Curator and Photographer

WIN: 
Once the photos have been selected for the exhibition, they will be printed and shown as part of the official program of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013 and featured in Snap Magazine (Hipstamatic’s own magazine)

BEST PHOTO/SERIES: 
The Final winner of the single best photo or best series, will win the latest iPhone 5 with a one year free mobile phone account sponsored by Bibob.

IF YOUR PHOTO IS SELECTED:
If you submit your photos to the competition, You hereby agree to the following terms:
We will contact You by email if you are in the exhibition.
If your photo/photos are selected, we have your permission to print the photos for the exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013 and to print your photos in various media, including Snap Magazine.

We also hope you will be able to come for the opening of the show!

*FTW – For The Win

“An enthusiastic emphasis to the end of a comment, message, or post. From the legendary game show Hollywood Squares where the result of the player’s response is expected to win the game.”

Peter Lav Gallery  - www.plgallery.dk
Hyun-Jin Kwak “The Island – A Case Study of a Collectors Mind”

The discovery of an old house in the city of Reggio Emilia in Italy, led Hyun-Jin Kwak to her  photographic project ”The Island – A Case Study of a Collectors Mind.”

The seemingly abandond house, was not abandond at all, but in fact an old ruined Venetian palace wherein the inheritor Francesco, rumored to be a kleptomania, lived along with his family.

Hyun-Jin Kwak then started her long photo project about the palace, Francesco and the history of his family.

This friday Peter Lav Gallery open the exhibition and invites you to join in on the years long photographic case-study of the palace.

Opening Friday May 3rd. 2013 

© Torben Eskerod, Marselis

Peter Lav Gallery
Torben Eskerod
Marselis – Contemplation

In the series ”Marselis”, Eskerod has caputered fragments of the forest Marselis in Aarhus and the nearby ocean, by using outdated filmroles.
The use of old film give the series a exaggerated and unrealistic color scheme, that turns the nature into possessing an almost unnatural beauty. ”Marselis” is the first part of the ongoing project entitled Contemplation, wherein Eskerod contemplates places and buildings.

Opening Friday May 3rd. 2013

Annika von Hausswolff – It All Ends with a New Beginning
This spring ARoS is presenting a grand photo exhibition with the Swedish artist Annika von Hausswolff. The exhibition entitled It all ends with a new beginning is created in close collaboration with the artist and includes works from the 1990s, as well as brand new and sitespecific work created specifically for ARoS. In her work we are confronted with the familiar and yet a closer look suggest a certain mystique and that things are not exactly as usual.

ARoS
ARoS Allé 2
8000 Aarhus C

Opening Hours
Tue 10-5
Wed-Thurs 10-10
Fri-Sun 10-5
Closed on Mondays

Maryam Jafri – Schools, Hospitals, Prisons

Schools, Hospitals, Prisons is a photo/text series presenting images of theme rooms for role-play in S/M dungeons. These rooms are reproductions of well-known institutions in society such as classrooms, clinics, prisons etc. The rooms works as a stage for the clients private and hidden sexual fantasies. At odds with the rooms actual function, the active participants in the sexual and performative act, is taken out of the photo and the rooms are presented empty.

Read more about the exhibition here.

Flensborggade 57
Copenhagen V

Flensborggade 57 is a exhibition space and a work place.

Opening Hours
The space is open at Thursdays from 12-5pm and by appointment.

Andersen´s Contemporary presents Ulrik Heltoft´s exhibition The Voynich Botanical Studies and The Origin of Specimen 52v
20. April – 8. June 2013

The second solo exhibition with Ulrik Heltoft at Andersen´s Contemporary is based on The Voynich Manuscript, a literary work found at the Beineche Rare Book Library in New Haven

The work is written in cryptic letters and illustrated with drawings of what seems to be imaginary plants.

In 129 black and white photographs of imaginary plants, Heltoft use the literary work of unknown origin, as a conceptual frame for his work. The images in the photographs are all composed in an advanced 3D-program.

Opening
19. April 5-8pm

Andersen´s Contemporary
Amager Strandvej 50
2300 Copenhagen

The exhibition Come as You Are is the first soloexhibition in Scandinavia by the Brazilian photo-artist Calé.
Who are you? Are you a free individual? Or are you a slave to the norm of generality? Through the exhibition Calé raises questions about identity in the big city.

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Aarhus

www.galleriimage.dk

Great news for everyone using Instagram. In relation to the exhibition “Your Habour” at the Danish Architecture Center, a Instagram competition is taking place. The exhibition focus on the rapid development of Copenhagen´s inner habour and the Danish Architecture Center  wants you to take part in the documentation of the habour by using your Instagram.

To learn more about the competition go to www.DAC.dk
Grab your smartphone and hash-tag #havnenerdin on your next photo of the Copenhagen habour.

The competition runs till June 15th. 2013

Entry deadline for independent exhibitions is April 22nd. More info here

We are looking forward to the fourth edition of Copenhagen Photo Festival June 6th – 16th. The festival programme will be revealed online on June 1st. In the meantime visit our blog.

Louisiana Channel trailer | Louisiana Channel

In November 2012 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art launched their online art and culture channel Louisiana Channel. The channel has a great variety of videos and among these are videos with photographers such as Astrid Kruse Jense, Elina Brotherus, Trine Søndergaard and Thomas Demand.

Go to their website
www.channel.louisiana.dk

Fotografisk Center
Tina Enghoff – Migrant Documents
April 13th – June 2nd 2013

Tina Enghoff´s exhibition at Fotografisk Center consists of four photo series, video, sound and a postcard installation, all documenting the circumstances and living conditions of homeless African migrants in Denmark.

Not only documenting the situation of the migrants herself, Enghoff also give the migrants a chance to speak, through their own pictures and recorded dialogs between the African migrants and Enghoff.

Fotografisk Center
Pasteursvej 14, 1.
Kbh V

Opening Hours
Tue-Fri 11-5
Sat-Sun 12-4

The solo project at Den Frie by Nicolai Howalt is about light. Based on the notion of the healing abilities of light therapy, developed by the doctor and Nobel prize winner Niels Finsen, Howalt explores the visual traces of the UV rays. Through his photographs Howalt attempts to capture the expressions and colors of the UV rays, which by their nature are invisible to the human eye.

Den Frie
Oslo Plads 1
2100 Kbh Ø

Opening hours
Tue-Fri 12-5
Thus 12-9
Sat-Sun 10-5

Easter Holidays
23.03.2013-01.04.2013 

This Easter Fotografisk Center is arranging a photo collage workshop for children and their adults. The children will be able to challenge and work with their understanding of photography, through the creative play with collages.

Open everyday this Easter.

Fotografi-i-fokus is still going strong and has lots of great exhibitions to offer in Helsingborg, Malmø, Lund, Landskrona, Sjöbo and Tomelilla.
For more information about the exhibitions go here.

Galleri Image – Landscape in Between - Morten Barker
01.03.2013-07.04.2013 

In the exhibition Landscape in Between by Morten Barker, the Danish military shootingareas can be viewed as balancing between the landscape of the Golden Age and a war landscape. On these areas it can be seen how our warfare abroad has left traces at home. Here deers stand among cartridge shells and thus challenge the idea of Denmark as a peaceful nation.

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Aarhus C

We are overwhelmed with the amount of submissions that we have received for The Censored Exhibition at Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013.

You can still be part of the festival. Deadline for submissions is Friday March 15th.

Go to our website to learn more about the submission procedure www.copenhagenphotofestival.com/admission/

For independent exhibitions the programme entry deadline is April 5th.

KONTORprojects
“En gang var alle gale” by Signe Vad
Vernissage Friday 08.03.2013 from 5-8pm 

KONTORprojects will be showing the first part of what is to become Signe Vad´s trilogy, about “the last man.” The exhibition is part of the Swedish photo biennial Fotografi-i-fokus. The exhibition is on display till Saturday 16.03.2013.

KONTORprojects
Værnedamsvej 7A
1819 Frederiksberg C

Galleri Susanne Ottesen – Stig Brøgger
Suburban Life – Photography as Painting
o1.03.2013-28.03.2013

Stig Brøgger´s photo series combine a range of photos of significant differences such as landscapes, toys, buildings, paintings, flowers, photos from the web and much more. The photos are combined through 44 posters of geometric compositions, wherein the combination suddenly can be regarded as, a diverse picture of the suburbs.

Galleri Susanne Ottesen
Gothersgade 49
1123 Copenhagen K

Opening hours
Tue-Fri 10-18
Sat 10-15

Press Photo of the Year 2012/2013

Last Friday the best press photographs and press photographers were awarded, in the Danish competition Press Photo of the Year. Lærke Posselt won in the category International Reportage, Jacob Ehrbahn was awarded the title of Press Photographer of the Year and Marie Hald won first prize in the category Press Photo of the Year.

Congratulations to the three of them and all the other winners.

The photographs are now on display at The National Photo Museum in Copenhagen until 13.04.2013.

The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1,
1221 Copenhagen

Opening hours
Mon-Sat 10-7

Anne Lass “Triple Seven” – Vernissage at Peter Lav Gallery
01.03.2013 at 5 pm.

With the exhibition Triple Seven, Lass present us with her examination of private gambling dens and casinos in Berlin, a phenomenon, which has grown rapidly since the beginning of our present financial crisis. Lass has visited and photographed over a one hundred gambling dens, and through the exhibition, we are confronted with this parallel world, wherein the gamblers and the gambling machines are left out.

Peter Lav Gallery
Esplanaden 8D
Copenhagen K

Fotografi i Fokus – South Sweden Photography Biennial
02.03.2013-31.03.2013

With more than 40 photo exhibitions and lots of talks and seminars, March is a month with photography in focus. The photo biennial just across the water (at least for those of You living in Copenhagen), have exhibitions and events in Lund, Helsingborg, Landskrona, Sjöbo, Tomelilla, Munka Ljungby and Malmø. Dunkers Kulturhus in Helsingborg have three photo exhibitions and in Malmø alone, you can find more than 20 exhibitions. KONTORprojects in Copenhagen is also part of the biennial, with the exhibition “En gang var alle gale” by photographer Signe Vad.

Program is available here.

Afterlife – Museum of Contemporary Art. 
02.02.13 – 07.03.13

Afterlife – a collaboration between, photographer Sofie Amalie Klougart, film director Cæcilie Østerby Sørensen, the sound duo Graf, Nielsen and Das Beckwerk Museum. The exhibition is devoted to existential questions such as, what do we do if life comes to an end? Is it a catastrophe? Or is it happiness? Through this collaboration, the exhibition portrays the human life, as a utopian afterlife without any purpose.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Stændertorvet 3D
4000 Roskilde
Dk

Torbjørn Rødland - American Photography

Gallery Nils Stærk presents Norwegian born and LA-based photographer Torbjørn Rødland with the exhibition American Photography.
Consisting of 10 photographs the exhibition altogether evokes an interesting combination of familiar imagery and motifs, creating a symbolically loaded, yet loose landscape of the American society.

The exhibition is on display until 02.03.2013

Nils Stærk
Ny Carlsberg vej 68
1760 Copenhagen V

Opening Hours
Thue-Fri 12-5
Sat 12-3

At the moment Stockholm Art Week has just begun and the city is loaded with great exhibitions and talks. One of the major highlights is the PhotoMarket, where some of Europe´s most prestigious photo galleries will be represented, such as Bukowskis (Stockholm) Camera Work (Berlin) Forma (Milano) Fotografiska Art Partner (Stockholm) Kahmann Gallery (Amsterdam) Paci Contemporary (Brescia) P.U.G. (Oslo). During the PhotoMarket there will also be arranged events and talks with photographers and collectors.

Right now the main exhibition at Fotografiska is David LaChapelle, Burning Beauty.

More information is to be found here.

Fotografiska
Stadsgårdshamnen 22
116 45 Stockholm

Opening Hours
Sun-Wed 9-21
Thurs-Sat 9-23

Curtain Falls – Carina Zunino
With photographs of the Icelandic nature, artist Carina Zunino has created an installation where photography, sculpture and printmaking merge together. Each of the 11 photographs are parted in two as a stage curtain and accompanied with text. The exhibition thus in some way remind us, that we are confronted with an illusionary space and a staged reality of nature.

The show ends on feb. 24.

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
Aarhus C

The young contemporary Finnish artist Nelli Palomäki, has her first solo-exhibition in Denmark. With her black and white portraits and consistent style, Palomäki has established herself, as one of the most promising young photographers in Scandinavia. While breaking away from the contemporary style of portrait photography, Palomäki in a unique way, brings about earlier ways of working within the genre.

The show is on display from February 8th – April 1st.

Ordrupgaard
Vilvordevej 110
2920 Charlottenlund

Opening Hours
Thues-Fri 1-5
Sat-Sun 11-5

We are currently open for admissions for participation in the 2013 Copenhagen Photo Festival.
You can read more about the admission procedure here. Deadline is March 15th.

For inquiries, please contact

Project Manager
Trine Rindsig Laursen
trine@copenhagenphotofestival.com
+45 4244 2010

Birds – trees and hunting scenes 19.01-03.03 2013

For the first time ever Kunsthal Nord is having an exhibition solely dedicated to contemporary photography. Artist Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt have created a shared project, consisting of works produced  from 2005-2012, all addressing the theme of postmodern man´s relationship with nature.

Kunsthal Nord, Nordkraft
Kjellerups Torv 5, 2. sal
9000 Aalborg

Open all days (except mondays)
Entrance is free

Vernissage tonight at 5pm

Tonight Fotografisk Center presents Lea Porsagers exhibition How to Program and Use T-F, in which she combines sculptural objects and projections, while working with thoughts as physical phenomenons.

Fotografisk Center
Pasteursvej 14, 1.
København V

Black Fanta II by Nikolaj Moeller together with Galleri Naboløs, is opening tomorrow at Tøjhusmuseet in Copenhagen.
Black Fanta II is the follower of Moeller´s earlier series Black Fanta, which debuted at Copenhagen Photo Festival in 2011. The series portrays the Afghan National Security Forces, and is divided in three parts portraying: the Afghan Local Police, the Afghan National Police and new recruits of the Afghan National Army.

Vernissage
Thursday 24. jan. from 4-6pm.

Tøjhusmuseet (The Royal Danish Arsenal Museum)
Tøjhusgade 3
1214 KBH K.

Show:
25. jan – 31. march

Tonight: opening of Leigh Ledare´s solo exhibition Leigh Ledare, et al. 

His work evolves around social dynamics and relationships. His work addresses controversial themes, through images of his closest; mother, ex-wife, collectors, himself and such, often engaged in sexual situations.

The solo exhibition consists of photography, text, film and archival material.

The vernissage is tonight, jan. 17th, at 7pm – 10pm

Kunsthal Charlottenborg
Nyhavn 2
1051 Kbh K

Opening this friday: Anna Strand´s Nagoya Notebook at Peter Lav Gallery.

Nagoya Notebook an exhibition of found photographs, staged photographs and photographic objects, all made during Strand´s stay in Japan in 2012.

Friday 11th, from 5-7pm
at Peter Lav Gallery
Esplanaden 8D
Cph

Next week is the last chance to experience Thomas Skou´s exhibition The Long Way Home, at The Generator Gallery in Copenhagen.

Beautiful snapshots, let us become part of the travelers story and the experiences of wonders and realities on the road.

The show closes Jan 10th. 2013

Generator Gallery
Adelgade 5-7
CPH K

Now you can vote for Politiken´s best photo of the year.

Go to http://politiken.dk/kultur/aaretsbedste/ECE1851970/stem-hvad-er-aarets-politiken-foto/ and see all the great photographs.

Merry Christmas!

This fall Martin Asbæk Gallery showed Disappearing into the Past by Astrid Kruse Jensen. Now its possible to experience the works at Kunsthallen Brandts. 

In the exhibition Disappearing into the Past, Astrid Kruse Jensen is turning away from the advanced photographic techniques, towards the uncontrolable polaroid photography. We disappear into the past in a double sense, both regarding the motif, with its memories of a past time, and technically, by turning away from the digital photograph.

Kunsthallen Brandts
Brandts Torv 1,
Odense

Website

This thursday 13. December at 7pm, artists Ditte Haarløv Johnsen and Michelle Eistrup talk about childhood experiences which have engaged their artistic practice.

At the same time experience Ditte Haarløv Johnsen´s work “Maputo Diary” – a photographic series portraying people and their environments in Maputo, Mozambique.

Haarløv Johnsen herself grew up in Mozambique and thus the relation between her childhood and artistic practice is indeed interesting.

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
Aarhus

Dedicated
26th November  - 29th December

Posing the question “How does one create art” photographer Mingo and journalist Jørgen Schlosser have created a book entitled “Dedikeret – 25 danske kunstnere fortæller om deres inspiration og kunst” (Dedicated – Danish artists talk about their inspiration and art).

Within the book a number of well-known artists such as Michael Kvium, Jacob Holdt, Ghita Nørby og Nikolaj Lie Kaas talk about their practice and Mingo portrays each artist in unique and highly staged photographs.

The photographs will be exhibited at the Entrance Gallery at The Royal Library from November 26th-December 29th.

The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
1221 Cph.

Entrance 40 dkr.
Registration at Birgitte Vilslev bv@photography.dk
Free entrance for members of Fotografisk Center and DJ:Fotograferne.
Dec. 4th from 6-8pm

Fotografisk Center
Pasteursvej 14, 1 floor.
Copenhagen V.

Amazonan Trails 

This December and January at The Workers´ Museum in Copenhagen, photographer Mike Kollöffel is exhibiting his photographs of the Huaorani-indians from the Amazones in Ecuador.

Kollöffel´s photographic practice comprises photojournalism as well as independent projects and it is the second time Kollöffel is exhibiting at The Workers´ Museum.

“The exhibition will focus on identity, nature, rain forest, resources, oil industry and how we relate to the world around us.” (The Workers´ Museum)

The Workers´Museum 
Rømersgade 22
København K

Opening hours
Everyday from 10-4

A documentary photo exhibition at Copenhagen City Hall display works by Italian photographer, Giovanni Diffidenti.

The photos which came about in collaboration with the NGO Dan Church Aid offers the viewer a glimpse into the life of landmine victimes in Burma/Myanmar.

Entrance is free and it is a great chance to experience not only thought provoking documentary photography but also the space of the City Hall.

Mon-fri 7.45- 17.00
Sat 10-12.00
Sunday closed

Paris Photo 15 – 18 November 2012.

Created in 1996 the parisian art fair Paris Photo opened its doors to a fair solely dedicated to historical and contemporary photography.

Starting tomorrow the fair takes place at the beautiful settings of the Grand Palais in Paris.

Danish galleries such as Bo Bjerggaard, Peter Lav and Martin Asbæk are all at the fair this year.

For more information about the fair, galleries and events go to www.parisphoto.com

Personal Projects søger nu dokumentarfotografer til den kommende udstilling i Øksnehallen, som del af Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013. 

Her kan der læses om ansøgningsproceduren. 

Kort om os:
Vi er fem dokumentarfotografer, som alle arbejder med længerevarende personlige projekter. Vi er socialt engagerede historiefortællere, som har valgt dokumentarfotografiet som fortælleform, fordi fotografiet på unik vis kan tale til følelserne og skabe forståelse for andre menneskers liv. Vi tror på, at det er en borgerpligt at være veloplyst, at information fremmer vores demokrati, og at sammenhængskraften i samfundet styrkes, jo mere vi ved om hinanden.

Hvad leder vi efter:
Tre stærke dokumentar-fotografiske projekter med noget på hjertet. De tre projekter bliver en del af gruppeudstillingen Personal Projects 2013 i Øksnehallen. Du skal være åben for at bidrage til fællesskabet med idéer og engagement, så vi kan gøre udstillingen til en stor og god oplevelse. Det kræver en del tid og hårdt arbejde at sætte en udstilling op. Så vær indstillet på flere møder med gruppen i det nye år, samt tre dage til at sætte udstillingen op i juni.

Økonomien:
Alle deltagere hæfter selv økonomisk for udgifter i forbindelse med deres personlige udstilling (prints + indramning) i gallerikvalitet. Der er også risiko for at du selv skal bidrage med et mindre beløb til fællesudgifter (til ophængning, lys, fernisering, PR etc.). Ved salg af prints beholder fotograferne selv pengene.

Hvad skal du gøre:
Send en mappe/zip-fil via www.wetransfer.com. Send mappen til Maria Fonfara (fotofonfara@gmail.com). Mappen skal indeholde: Ca. 20 billeder á 2000 pixels på længste side i en mellem jpeg-kvalitet, en halv A4 side om dit projekt og en halv A4 sidez om dig selv. Har du spørgsmål rettes de til fotofonfara@gmail.com eller på mobil 22 98 84 41.

Deadline:
Søndag den 15. December 2012.
Næste Call for entries er i Marts 2013.

De bedste hilsner  · Mads Nissen · Christian Als · Maria Fonfara · David Høgsholt · Miriam Dalsgaard

Absence of Subject – Galleri Image

This Friday Gallery Naboløs celebrates their two year anniversary with a birthday party!

With the American presidential election at its peak, the exhibition “State of the Union” is perfectly timed.
Works by photographer Emil Hartvig, Mette Juul and Mathias Juul Christensen will form an exhibition focusing on each artist’s view on the America of today.

Event
November 2nd
5 pm-9 pm

Galleri Naboløs
Valkendorffsgade 15
Copenhagen K

For more information about the event go here.

Ideally Indian, Types and Stereotypes in Indian Portrait Photography - KONTORprojects

Presenting three contemporary Indian photographers, Bharat Sikka, Nandini Valli Muthiahs and Pushpamala N, the exhibition “Ideally Indian” revolves around three central themes; humor, staging and performance.

Each artist comment on the social realities of India, and without being directly political, there is still a strong sense of actuality in each work.

Trine Søndegaard, “Still” – Martin Asbæk Gallery 

At the moment Martin Asbæk Gallery has a solo exhibition with photographer Trine Søndergaard entitled Still.

In 2008 Søndergaard received the three years work grant from the Danish Arts Council and has shown her works at places such as Glyptoteket in Copenhagen.

The exhibition at Martin Asbæk Gallery consists of several series, woven together by the overall theme “Still”.

The works are up for view till November 24th 2012

Bilder Nordic presents a talk by photographer and co-founder of the photographic agency VII Photo, Gary Knight.

With twenty years in the field of documentary photography, Knight has worked in Southeast Asia, Ex-Yugoslavia, The Middle East and many other places around the globe.

The talk will be centered around his own photographic practice.

October 30th. at 7pm.

The talk is free but one should register at www.bildernordic.dk

KE, the annual Artists´Autumn Exhibition, has since its origin hatched many well-known artists.

This year KE12 offer a great deal of  photographic work by artists such as Miriam Nielsen, Maja Nydahl, Søren Røenholt, Majs Persdatter and Andreas Olesen among others.

The exhibition runs till November 25th.

Den Frie
Oslo Plads 1
2100 København Ø

Opening Hours
Mon. Closed
Tue-fri 12am – 5pm
Thur 12am– 9pm
Sat 10am – 5pm
Sun 10am – 5pm

More information at www.denfrie.dk

The largest nordic photo fair opened today in Forum, Copenhagen.

The fair offers its visitors lots of photographic inspiration, product information and a great opportunity to meet fellow photography enthusiasts, at all levels and ages.

It is possible to experience a great variety of stands at the fair, such as Canon Denmark whom is greatly represented with a larger stand.

Forum
Julius Thomsens Plads 1
1925 Frederiksberg C
Denmark

Opening Hours
Sat 10.00-18.00
Sun 10.00- 17.00

Tickets
Adults: 120 DKK
12-18 years youth ticket: 80
Children under 12 years: Free

Through his artistic practice, Reisch has been focusing on digital editing of photography, and one might see Untitled 14/ as the culmination of just this.

But the works are not based on photographs, instead they are solely computer generated images, however on photographic print.

So, when is something a photograph? And is it possible to talk about photography just by the physical resemblance?

The works are on display till the 3rd of November.

Read more about the exhibit here

Bilder Nordic presents a talk by photographer and co-founder of the photographic agency VII Photo, Gary Knight.

With twenty years in the field of documentary photography, Knight has worked in Southeast Asia, Ex-Yugoslavia, The Middle East and many other places around the globe.

The talk will be centered around his own photographic practice.

October 30th. at 7pm.

The talk is free but one should register at www.bildernordic.dk

At the exhibition Facing the Dark, artist duo Hanne Nielsen and Birgit Johnsen present us with both photography and videoart.

The exhibition which primary focus is on photography, consists of two series, respectively Facing the Dark, photographs from Lille Vildmose, said to be the darkest area of Denmark and Rabbit Molds, a series of imagery produced back when the duo in 1997 did the video Rabbitsuit.

This is their first separate gallery show and runs till October 30th.

Charlotte Fogh Gallery
Mejlgade 18 B
8000 Aarhus C

Opening Hours
Tue - Fri 12pm -5pm
Sat 11pm – 3pm
and by appointment

In 2011 Copenhagen Photo Festival encouraged Danes to send in pictures of everyday  rituals captured at Nørrebro in Copenhagen. This resulted in the festival exhibition 2200 Everyday Rituals curated by Joachim Ladefoged, Martin Asbæk and Jakob Holdt. In cooperation with the Art Club at DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) the initiative has now expanded to all of Denmark.

Between the summer of 2011 and 2012 the DR Art Club received photographs from all over Denmark.

By June 2012, more than 600 photographs were submitted and out of these, 50 photographs were carefully selected and displayed at this years Copenhagen Photo Festival, along with the pictures of 2200 Everyday Rituals.

After being displayed at Trapholt the show will continue throughout the country.

The exhibition Everyday Rituals (Hverdagsritualer) is on display at Trapholt October 30th – December 2nd.

For more information go to www.trapholt.dk and dr.dk

Trapholt
Æblehaven 23
6000 Kolding
Denmark

Opening Hours
Tue. – Sun. 10am-5pm
Wed. 10am-8pm – free entrance between 5pm-8pm
Mon. closed

A sweet cure for any rainy fall day.

Portraying the controversial photographic pioneer Edward Steichen, this Fall exhibition at The National Photo Museum show works by the artist himself, supplemented by other photographic works.

The exhibition thus strive to illustrate the great impact Steichen has had on the photographic practice of his time and beyond.

His long career as an artist, show an incredible diversity, exploring and developing photography as a craft and as an artistic practice.

More information about the show is to be found here.

The National Photo Museum
Det Kongelige Bibliotek
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
København

Opening Hours
Mon-sat: 10am-7pm

Dates
12th oct – 9th feb. 2012

Just a sneak peek for the new Gregory Crewdson Movie.

The movie is about the American photographer and his staged photographs of American people, their homes, neighborhoods and lives.

It has yet to reach theaters in the US and Internationally.

Since 2000 the International photo festival, FotoTriennale.dk, has taken place at Fyn.

This year, the overarching theme of the monthly long photo festival is “The Good Life.”

What determines a good life? There is no definitive answer to this question, and just exactly this, is expressed through the works of over 30 artists exhibiting at 12 different venues and in the urban spaces of Odense.

More information about the venues and the festival can be found at:
http://fototriennale.dk/en/exhibitions/venues

Friday the 12th of October Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen will open the exhibit entitled “Ung dansk fotografi og videokunst” (Young Danish Photography and Video Art).

The show presents young contemporary artists such as Alen Aligrudic, Lars Dyrendom, Gudrun Hasle, Marie Kølbæk Iversen, Helene Ringkjær Pedersen, Eva Marie Rødbro and Jacob Tækker.

For more information visit the website… http://www.photography.dk. 

Dates:
12th October-16th December

Opening Hours: 
Tue-Fri 11-5pm.
Sat-Sun 12-4pm.

Fotografisk Center:
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14, 1. floor
1799 Cph V.

Photo: Willem Popelier

September 15th – November 27th

C/O Berlin continues the photographic exhibition series Talents with the photographic works of the young Dutch artist Willem Popelier.

The exhibition entitled “This is Willem”, focus on the photographic representation of identity through a playful examination of both the private and public approach to the photographic portrait. Popelier uses photographic material from his private life as well as the media, while constantly revolving around how the individual is represented in the photographic media.

C/O Berlin exhibits photographic works of great diversity and is certainly worth a visit.

The show continues through fall, untill the 27^th of November.

More information at www.co-berlin.info

September 29th – December 22nd

As part of The Intimate Autumn: Behind the Facade, the colourful photographs by Russian artist Alena Zhandarova can be experienced at Aarhus Kunstbygning.

In the series Cornflower Tea and Concealing Chocolate, Zhandarova positions herself as the center of her images, that not only pay attention to the unique moment, but also the self. In the photographs we see a young girl, self-absorbed, in a dreamlike everyday universe.

“In the intense focus of the artistic ego, the works move in a bittersweet balancing-act between preoccupation with the self and preoccupation with the world”

More information can be found at www.aarhuskunstbygning.dk

Tonight! 

V1 Gallery is presenting The 2012 Vice Photo Show, featuring Peter Sutherland, Asger Carlsen, Olga Kravets, Kevin Kunishi and Roger Ballen.

The show is on display until friday.

V1 Gallery
Flæsketorvet 69-71
1711 Copenhagen V.

More information about the show at www.v1gallery.com 

INSIDE OUT 2400 – MØNTMESTERVEJ NORTH WEST COPENHAGEN 

Tonight and tomorrow night you can experience a series of 15 meter tall video projections on the apartment gabels at Møntmestervej in North West of Copenhagen.

Visualizing the residents of the area through sound, text and pictures, the cross-genre artistic project is turning the area inside out.

The project is created and curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen and Kassandra Wellendorf in close collaboration with a number of artists.

In 2009 a similar project was done by Hanne Lise Thomsen at Vesterbro Copenhagen.

The project is shown from 8.30 pm. – 11.30 pm.

Today the first edition of the Unseen Photo Fair in Amsterdam opens at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek, showcasing fifty galleries solely devoted to photography.

The fair is dedicated to and focusing on the new developments in contemporary photography.

Amongst the fifty galleries represented, are Copenhagen-based Martin Asbæk Gallery and Peter Lav Gallery, showing works by Danish photographers such as Astrid Kruse Jensen, Ebbe Stub Wittrup, Nikolai Howalt, Trine Søndergaard and Adam Jeppesen.

The five day program offers a broad variety of galleries and photographers and forms the basis for a great experience.

Dates: 19^th - 23^th of September.

More information can be found at their website, www.unseenamsterdam.com

Photo: Astrid Kruse Jensen

Photo: Ed Templeton

The American artist and professional skater Ed Templeton is showing a collection of photographs from his trip to Russia in 2007. Through the photographs Templeton’s first-time experience of Russia is documented.

“A trip where he shot constantly in the wide-eyed amazement of a first-timer in a new place, picking up on the social differences of the people and places so mythical to a child who grew up in the cold-war.”

The exhibition is on display till September 29th and is one out of three solo exhibitions presented by V1 Gallery, wherein it is also possible to experience works by Evan Hecox and Thomas Campbell.

Jesper Rasmussen’s photographic series “White Cube Installations” confronts us with the neutral white exhibition space in the highest sense.
The different spaces are photographed and retouched, so that the actual exhibition space appears as a naked, empty peep box. By deleting the actual function of the space, as a place for exhibiting objects, the uniformity of the spaces and the cohesion between them becomes clear.

The works are on display at Galerie Møller Witt till saturday 29th of september 2012

Read more at http://www.gmw.dk/

Galerie Møller Witt
Christiansgade 18,
8000 Aarhus C.

Opening Hours
Thu-Fri 11.30 am – 5 pm, Sat 11 am – 4 pm

This month the Danish/Swiss artist group PUTPUT are exhibiting their conceptuel photographic work at Gallery Naboløs. What seems as recognizable everyday objects, are by closer look transformed.

Hereby the works challenge perception and recognition, and presents a humoristic and suprising visual language, in which houseplants suddenly are made of dusters and popsicles of sponges.

Urban Space 2012 from Copenhagen Photo Festival on Vimeo.

2 PM
Finissage of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012.
Photo City, Ny Tap, Store DSV, Pasteursvej 54, 1799 København V

11 AM and 2 PM

Guided tour of Photo City, Carlsberg at The Elephant Gate, Ny Carlsberg Vej, 1799 Copenhagen V

7–11 PM

Fatamorgana, The Danish School of Art Photography, presents three upcoming photographers.

10 AM – 1 PM and 2 PM – 5 PM
Workshop: iPhone photography – Creativity at your fingertips
Kontraframe Gallery, Flæsketorvet 77-79, 1711 København V

11 AM and 2 PM
Guided tour at Photo City, Carlsberg at The Elephant Gate, Ny Carlsberg Vej, 1799 Copenhagen V

1 PM
Artist Talk: Thomas Jensen
The Photo Stage, Photo City, Ny Tap, 5th floor, Pasteursvej 52, 1799 København V

1 – 2 PM
Artist Talk: Per Bak Jensen
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Flæsketorvet 85A, 1711 København V

2 PM
Artist Talk and debate
Slottet, Photo City, 6th floor, Pasteursvej 4, 1799 København V

4 – 6 PM
Seminar on photography between documentary and visual art
Fotografisk Center, Pasteursvej 14, 1st floor, 1799 København V

9 PM
Exhibition Party
ApArt, Nørre Søgade 11, 1370 København K

Tomorrow Sunday June 17th

2 PM
Come join us for the finissage of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012.
Photo City, Ny Tap, Store DSV, Pasteursvej 54, 1799 København V

Copenhagen Photo Festival is celebrating the full spectrum of photography. Today we want to focus on diversity and draw a line from the past to the future.

At the art galleries and satellite exhibitions you’ll find staged portraits of everyday life by the well-known photographer Lee Materazzi (US) at Gallery Poulsen, provocative photos such as the exhibition Dead and Alive: Consumed by Fire at Fotocaféen or still life nature motives by Finn Larsen at Dunkers Kulturhus. Take a walk down a historical lane starting with the retrospective exhibition Raw Power in Malmö or Beauty and the Breast at Galerie Eros and ending with the 2012 Graduation Exhibition of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Art, which displays photography of tomorrow. Have a nice stroll!

Finding Myself at Home, Lee Materazzi (US)
Gallery Poulsen Contemporary Fine Arts, Flæsketorvet 24, Den Hvide Kødby, 1711 Copenhagen V, Opening hours: Wed – Fri 12 – 5.30 PM, Saturday 12–16 or by appointment

Sydhavnen
Karensminde Kulturhus, Wagnersvej 19, 2450 Copenhagen SV, June 7th – 17th
Eight photographers from Sydhavnen were employed by the Museum of Copenhagen to portrait their own neighbourhood, Sydhavnen, during spring 2012.

The 2012 Graduation Exhibition of The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ Schools of Visual Art
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 København K
June 1st – August 5th, Tue – Sun 12 – 5 PM, Thursday 12 – 21

Hidden Visions
KONTORprojects, Værnedamsvej 7A, backyard, 1819 Frederiksberg C
Until June 24th 2012, Wed-Fri 12 AM-5 PM, Sat 12 AM-4 PM
Laura Parker (US), Caleb Charland (US), and Kristina Bengtsson (SE).
Hidden Visions is a study on the meditative world of photography, one at times quite forgotten. It is an exhibition that aims to explore the crossover between our traditional view on photography, and one that is free of the (potential) restraints of a camera.

Lost
Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Flæsketorvet 85 A, 1711 København V
Until June 23rd 2012, Tue-Fri 1 – 6 PM, Sat 12 AM-4 PM.
Per Bak Jensen has been described as seeking the in-between and the unexpected. Through his photography he explores the enigmatic in both city and rural environments. In formal terms his compositions seem harmonious, easy to enjoy. But semantically they may be puzzling. How to account for the flow of shapes, textures and shadows that lend expression to the image?

PIXELS + EYEphone
Kontraframe Gallery, Flæsketorvet 77-79, 1711 København V
June 7th – 17th, Mon-Fri 9 AM – 4 PM, sat. 10 AM – 6 PM, sun. 10 AM – 4 PM
PIXELS is a voyage into the pixel world of photography. It is a personal search for the digitalized origin. A photo consists of pixels, millions of little squared color codes, which combined creates a whole. By enlarging these pixels you lose your previous relations to the motif. Work by Thorbjørn Hansen & Tobias Dinesen
EYEphone is an experimental game with snapshots from everyday life, from work and from journeys. All the photos have been shot and edited on an iPhone. Work by René Strandbygaard, Thorbjørn Hansen & Tobias Dinesen.
My name is Jørgen Leth. Art Moves # 2
Gl Strand, Gl Strand, 48, 1202 Copenhagen K
Until August 12th, Tue – Sun 11 AM – 5 PM

Beauty and the Breast
Galerie Eros, Holbergsgade 9, 1057 Copenhagen K, Tue – Thurs 12 – 5.30 PM, Friday 12 – 6 PM, Saturday 11 AM – 14 PM

Dead and Alive: Consumed by Fire
Fotocaféen, Vesterbrogade 45, 1620 Copenhagen V, Mon – Fri 10 – 5.30 PM, Sat 10 AM – 2PM

Swedish Galleries

Raw Power
Malmö Museum, Malmöhusvägen 6, 211 18 Malmö
May 20th – September 20th, 10 AM – 5 PM
In 1977, the Swedish photographer Mats Bäcker shot his famous black and white photo of Iggy Pop. The photo of the punk legend giving the audience the finger has since reached an icon status. In the exhibition Raw Power at Malmö Museum Bäcker’s complete collection of rock photography can be experienced in large scale for the first time.

Man’s Land: Finn Larsen
Dunkers Kulturhus, Kungsgatan 11, 251 89 Helsingborg, Tue-Wed, Fri 10 AM – 6 PM, March 23rd – August 26th, Thursday 10 AM – 8 PM, Sat-Sun, 10 AM – 5 PM
It’s all about viewing the landscape as carefully and unbiased as possible. Leaving behind God, elves, fairies, sentiments, nationalism, symbolism and all other mischief.
The message of the Danish photographer Finn Larsen is as straight and realistic as his landscape pictures. In an unpretentious and mindful manner he often focuses on the ordinary, which seems neither very remarkable, nor spectacular at first glance.

4 PM
Guided tour at Photo City, Carlsberg at The Elephant Gate, Ny Carlsberg Vej, 1799 Copenhagen V

10 AM – 17.30 PM
Nordic Now! Two-days seminar June 14th – 15th
Photo City – The Photo Stage, Pasteursvej 52, 5th floor, 1799 Copenhagen V

It’s not too late! Still available seats for the seminar. Here are a few picks from today’s program. Check out the full program for the two-days seminar Thursday June 14th and Friday June 15th on nordicnow.net.

SLOW PHOTO
11:00-12:00: Lecture by Harri Pälviranta (FI) / photographer and PhD-student at the Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture, Helsinki

13.00-14.00: Artist talk by Ditte Haarløv Johnsen (DK) / photographer?14.00-14.45: Artist talk by Petur Thomsen (IS) / photographer

HYBRIDS

15:00-16:00: Artist talk by Henrik Kastenskov (DK) / photographer and part of Bombay Flying Club multimedia Collective

16:00-16:40: Artist talk by Eline Mugaas (NO) / artist

16:40-17:20: Artist talk by Nanna Hänninen (FI) / photographer

4 PM
Guided tour at Photo City, Carlsberg at The Elephant Gate, Ny Carlsberg Vej, 1799 København V

7 PM
Artist Talk – Ashley Cameron, The Photo Stage, Photo City, Ny Tap, Pasteursvej 52, 5th floor
1799 København V

The British commercial photographer Ashley Cameron has through the years become part of the elite in creating fictive pictures in Photoshop. By using advanced composition techniques and 3D designs, he meets the wishes of the client. Among his clients are Mercedes, Bristish Airways, The Times, AT&T, Ericsson, Yahoo, Guiness and Citibank.

Over the years Cameron has gained a variety of skills and knowledge from the many jobs he’s done. One of the most important thing he’s learned is to “break down big issues into a series of lesser tasks, which more easily can be handled” According to Cameron there is a countless number of ways  in which to work. The important thing is the end result – not how you get there.

Meet Ashley Cameron at this artist talk arranged by Bilder Nordic School of Photography.

And remember to sign up for the Nordic seminar Nordic Now! Thursday June 14^th and Friday June 15^th. Visit nordicnow.net.

Photo by Jakob Dall from the exhibition “Rongi’s life” at Slottet, Photo City

7 – 8.30 PM

Artist Talk and debate: Africa – The photography as a teammate or opponent?

Jakob Dall, photographer, Information. Tine Harden, freelance photographer. Holger Bernt Hansen, professor in Africa studies and Niels Carstensen, Folkekirkens Nødhjælp.
Photo City, Slottet, 6th floor, Pasteursvej 4, 1799 København V

NB! Today’s talk with Lærke Posselt has unfortunately been cancelled. 

Photo by Sergei Svaitchenko from the exhibition “FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE…” at Galleri Naboløs

The art galleries and exhibition spaces are an important part of Copenhagen Photo Festival displaying contemporary art photography. There has thus always been an open invitation for galleries to participate in the festival. This year the number of participating galleries and exhibition spaceshas grown to more than 40, two of them are even Swedish. It is truly amazing and we are honored. Every year we are excited to see what the each gallery have planned for the festival – Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 is no exception.

Galleri Naboløs – A New Collaboration

Last year the contemporary art photography gallery, Galleri Naboløs, had a small but beautiful exhibition in Photo City, Carlsberg. This year Galleri Naboløs has curated the exhibition, A WORLD A PART – a special selection from more than 4000 submitted works.

Galleri Naboløs also host their own exhibition with contemporary art photographer, Sergei Sviatchenko, FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE… in the city. The exhibition continues the work of Sergei Svaitchenko’s use of photography and collage elements, which are turned into a sharp contoured and sculptural expression.

A WORLD A PART, Galleri Naboløs, Photo City – Bryghuset, Ny Carlsberg Vej, by The Elephant Gate, 1799 København V, Telefon: +45 3113 8686, E-mail: info@nabolos.dk

FOR CERTAIN BECAUSE…, Galleri Naboløs, Valkendorfsgade 15, 1151 København K
T: +45 3113 8686, E-mail: info@nabolos.dk

Photography In Open Air at Carlsberg

Jens Haaning’s large photography ‘Aishia’ from 1999 is now on display for the first time in Copenhagen during Copenhagen Photo Festival and as part of the exhibition, Behind the Surface – Pictures From The Daily Life of Denmark, at Fotografisk Center. The picture has previously been on display in different European cities. ‘Aishia’ is a portrait of a Turkish girl living in Denmark. The 9×9 m large picture hangs on the facade of one of Carlsberg’s preserved brick buildings, thus creating a dialogue between the exhibition space and urban space. The picture is a monumental production of a Danish-Turkish girl.

BEHIND THE SURFACE, Fotografisk Center, Pasteursvej 14, 1st floor, 1799 København V
T: +45 3393 0996, E-mail: info@photography.dk

Elina Brotherus
Many of Elina Brotherus’ photos and works of video are self-portraits typically investigating the relationship between individual and space, both in relation to interiors as well as landscapes. Her motifs and themes are usually concerned with reflection for instance in the diptych-series Points of View on Landscape where she shows the role of the perspective in the way we perceive the world. Standing in the middle of a Nordic landscape, wearing orange trousers, a model (the artist herself) is photographed with her back against the camera and then laterally reversed facing the camera, photographed from the opposite direction. The same landscape and the same person, standing in the exact same place, but seen from two points of view

ELINA BROTHERUS, Martin Asbæk Gallery, Bredgade 23, 1260 København K
T: +45 3315 4045, E-mail: gallery@martinasbaek.com

7.00 PM

Artist talk and debate: Burma – how much do we see of the truth?

Photo City – Slottet, Pasteursvej 4, 6^th floor, 1799 København V

In the panel: Niels Hougaard, photographer, JP. David Høgsholt, photographer, freelance. Flemming Ytzen, journalist, Politiken. Christina Lund, journalist and writer.

We look forward to another day of celebrating photography with all of you!

The fifth day of Copenhagen Photo Festival is up and running and today’s highlight is the exhibition and national project Danish Everyday Rituals, a collaboration between DR’s Art Club and Copenhagen Photo Festival.

Danish Everyday Rituals
Galleri Oxholm – Ravnsborggade 5,
2200 København N
June 8^th – June 17^th
Opening Hours:
Wednesday – Friday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 12 Noon – 4 pm

The project Danish Everyday Rituals is a collaboration between Copenhagen Photo Festival’s project 2200 Everyday Rituals, Denmark’s first multicultural street exhibition, which showed a new side of the Nørrebro neighborhood, and DR’s Art Club.

Since the summer of 2011 DR’s Art Club has collected photos from the rest of the country, which has led to an impressive collection of 600 pictures from 50 towns all over Denmark.

The national collection of everyday rituals and last year’s collection of 2200 everyday rituals are now brought together as the project Danish Everyday Rituals. The grand exhibition is shown at Galleri Oxholm and SAK, Svendborg Amts Kunstforening, and will travel across the country to i.e. Trapholt in Kolding after the festival.

See the complete tour plan of the exhibition at DR: www.dr.dk

Photo Competition: What is a Copenhagener?

Don’t forget to upload your entry for the chance to win a digital reflex camera sponsored by Canon. Read all about the competition and how to upload your portrait picture of a Copenhagener at www.copenhagen.dk

The past two years Copenhagen Photo Festival has marked the celebration of photography in the urban space of Copenhagen. Projections at buildings at night and street galleries have brought the aesthetic of contemporary photography to people in their everyday rituals. This year the festival has increased the focus on photography in urban space with different initiatives with the ambition to reach as many people as possible:

All over town you will find the City Space Art Project with 130 unique images from the different festival exhibitions.

At Frederiksberg a Photo Walk will take its audience through the cityscape of Gl. Kongevej.

The Danish Union of Press Photographers hosts its 100 year-anniversary exhibition at Nytorv.

The photo journalists from Personal Projects wrap the square, Kongens Nytorv, in mansize photos.

Finally the Copenhagen underground will be turned into an impressive exhibition space when Copenhagen Photo Festival takes over all the Metro trains.

11 AM
Artist Talk – Mehdi Avaz, Photo City – The Photo Stage, Pasteursvej 46, 5th floor
1799 København V

1 PM
Artist Talks – Photographers from The Censored Exhibition 2012, Photo City, Ny Tap (Store DSV), Pasteursvej 52, 1799 København V

2 PM
Artist Talk – Henrik Saxgren, Photo City, Slottet, Pasteursvej 4, 1799 København V

2 PM
Artist Talk – KONTORprojects, Værnedamsvej 7A, backyard, 1819, Frederiksberg C

3 PM
Artist Talk – Hans-Olav Forsang, Photo City – The Photo Stage, Pasteursvej 46, 5th floor
1799 København V

4.30 PM
Artist Talk – Damian Heinisch, Photo City – The Photo Stage, Pasteursvej 46, 5th floor
1799 København V

7 PM
Screening and debate – Photo City, Halmlageret, Ny Carlsbergvej, 1799 København V

Events of the day

4 – 7 PM

Vernissage – Personal Projects, Øksnehallen, Halmtorvet 11, 1700 København V

5 PM

Vernissage – Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1, 1219 København K

5 PM

Vernissage – Per Morten Abrahamsen, Hans Alf Gallery, Holbergsgade 13,1057 København K

5 PM

Vernissage  and Artist Talk – B15, Islands Brygge 15, 2300 København S

5 PM

Vernissage – Danish Every Day Rituals, Gallery Oxholm, Ravnsborggade 5, 2200 København N

5 PM

Vernissage – Hidden Visions, KONTORprojects, KONTORprojects, Værnedamsvej 7A, backyard, 1819, Frederiksberg C

7.30 – 9 PM

Artist Talk – Jacob Aue Sobol, Photo City – The Photo Stage, Pasteursvej 52, 5th floor
1799 København V

From 7 PM

Personal Projects Party – Slagtehusgade 5E, 1715 København V

8 PM – 3 AM

Pixel Party, Kontraframe Gallery, Flæsketorvet 77-79, 1711 København V

NB! Artist Talk at Slottet, Photo City Friday, June 8th is cancelled.

Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 is up and running!

Entrance?
In Photo City all the exhibitions are free of charge. Only a few of the participating museums have an entrance fee.

Opening of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 from Copenhagen Photo Festival on Vimeo.

The event we’ve been waiting for all year is rapidly approaching!

With the official opening of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 only a few weeks away, photographers, organizers, editors, graphic designers and printers all over Denmark and 24 other countries are working non-stop to get the final details sorted before the opening of this year’s festival.

Program
The program for Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 is even bigger than last year, which you will notice by the number of exhibitions all over the city. The expansion of the festival also counts an increased event program with daily tours, screenings, artist talks and even a two day seminar about Nordic contemporary photography.

When, What and Were?
The program will be revealed online on June 1st where the first printed programs also will be handed out. So stay tuned!

We’re looking so much forward to seeing you all to eleven days of celebrating photography. It all starts June 7th at 4 pm at Photo City, where we hope to see you all to the official opening of Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012!

Fatamorgana The Danish School of Art Photography has created a competition for future photographers. To enter the competition, you don’t need a degree nor a special photographic style, just an urge and curiosity to take pictures.

Deadline for entering the competition is May 26th.

Read more about the event at
www.facebook.com/events/315185221883308/

If you find yourself near the Kings New Square (Kgs Nytorv) within the next couple of months, remember to check the large scale documentary photo exhibition.

It is not only fences and reconstruction which welcomes you at The Kings New Square at the moment. The fence around the constructions site has been transformed to an exhibition site for the photographers from Personal Projects and Henrik Saxgren. Personal projects has the last two years participated in Copenhagen Photo Festival under the title “5 x personal projects” where five Danish documentary photographers has exhibited their personal projects in Øksnehallen. This year the projects has multiplied, and no less than ten personal projects are taking part in Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012 at Øksnehallen – but all ready now you can experience nine of the contributing photographers at The Kings New Square now.

The photographers are Maria Fonfara, Thomas Lekfeldt, Mads Nissen, Miriam Dalsgaard, Jonathan Bjerg Møller, David Høgsholt, Christian Als, Niels Christensen and Tobias Selnæs Markussen. The last photographer, who’ll join the exhibition for the festival is Lærke Posselt.

The Norwegian Bilder Nordic School of Photography has in collaboration with Grundtvigs Højskole and Das Büro invited the internationally renowned photographer Ed Kashi to a talk in Nørrebrohallen May 9th at 7.30 pm.

Ed Kashi, who is part of VII photo, is known for his social and political approach to photography and has during his career been published in National Geografic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Fortune, Gro, Newsweek and many more.

His position as one of the leading names in multimedia productions was established with his project “Iraqi/Kurdistan Flipbook” from 2006. Along with his wife, he has since then created the non-profit multimedia company Kashi Talking Eyes Media.

The talk includes the four topics: photographic history, big productions, subjective photojournalism and conceptual work.

The event is free, but you need to sign up at http://bit.ly/IwOh4C

Nørrebrohallen
Bragesgade 5
DK – 2200 Copenhagen

Date: May 9th 2012

Time: 7.30 pm

The Norwegian photo magazine Objektiv launches their fifth and latest issue at the artist-run exhibition space KONTORprojects on Saturday at 2 – 5 pm.

Objektiv focuses on the camera based contemporary art and has in the four previous editions proven itself as a strong communicator of photography. The Norwegian magazine will be present during Copenhagen Photo Festival 2012, where they along side the Danish magazine Filter and the Finnish Photoraw are the initiators of the two day seminar Nordic Now.

Stay tuned and we will update you regarding the seminar.

KONTORprojects
Vaernedamsvej 7a, baghuset
DK – 1819 Frederiksberg C
Denmark

Read more at
www.objektiv.no
www.kontorprojects.dk
www.nordicnow.net

The Copenhagen based lifestyle magazine Bitchslap Magazine is currently portraying up-and-coming photographers from all around the world. To see the person behind the photos the magazine has invited the photographers to answer a few questions about their lives and works.

The series’ first photographer is Canadian Alana Paterson.

See the interview and works of Alana Paterson at
bitchslapmag.com/

The streets of Copenhagen will on May 12th be the host of “Global Spring” -  a one day festival. Among the initiators of the festival are Grundtvigs Højskole, who has teamed up with the photo bureau Das Büro and arranged a photo competition.

The head of the competition is the photo journalist Maria Fonfara, who on last year’s Copenhagen Photo Festival was on display at the exhibition “5 x Personal Projects”. The competition’s jury is the photographers Lars Bech and Carsten Ingemann from Das Büro.

Read more about the competition and how to sign up at
http://grundtvigs.dk/2011/05/12/12-maj-fotokonkurrence-det-gode-miljoportraet/

The four graduates from CPH Film and Photo School Freya Sif Hestnes, Jens Paunkjær Christensen, Martin Stub-Holm el-Toukhy and Jesper Friman Christensen have joined forces in the photo collective Kronotop.

The collective’s debut is the current exhibition “Kronotop” at Vess / Vesterbro Showroom, where the four photographers invite the audience to a new photographic reality with an unsettling and disturbing edge. Even though the four photographers seek the same visual language, the four themes differ greatly.

The exhibition runs till Thursday April 19th.

Vess / Vesterbro Showroom
Oehlenschlaegersgade 36
DK – 1663 Copenhagen
Denmark

Opening Hours
Monday-Thursday: 3 – 8 pm

Read more about the exhibition and the photographers at
http://www.kronotop.dk/

The Danish photographer Teit Jørgensen studied both photography at Delta Photo as well as cinematography at The Danish Film School. You therefore experience both still pictures and moving pictures in the works of Teit Jørgensen. Last year Jørgensen exhibited the still photo exhibition “The End of the World” at the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen and he is mentioned in connection with no less than five titles in The Danish Film Institue’s list of the 100 best Danish documentaries.

Teit Jørgensen’s works can currently be experienced in the exhibition WSO – 23.04.1966 at Galleri Tom Christoffersen. The exhibition runs till April 28th.

Galleri Tom Christoffersen
Skindergade 5
DK – 1159 Copenhagen

Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12 – 6 pm
Lørdag: kl 11 am – 4 pm

Read more about the exhibition at
tomchristoffersen.dk

The financial crisis is noticed world wide – also in the small society surrounding Galesburg, Illinois, where unemployment is rising and tough living condition are influencing the citizens.

The New York-based photographer Chris Verene goes back to his roots in the exhibition Family where his family and hometown Galesburg is the focal point. Verene turns away from the staged photo to show the life of the people he knows so well. Knowing the people allows Verene to come even closer in showing the everyday life of Galesburg citizens with worn out interior and broken marriages but also life’s happy moments.

The exhibition is on display till May 6th.

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Aarhus C

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 1 pm – 5 pm

Read more at
galleriimage.dk

With the exhibition fotoGRAFISK (photoGRAPHIC) Fotografisk Center explores the art of photogravure.

Through the years, the world renowned copper printer Niels Borch Jensen has worked with a wide range of international artists – like Anna Barriball, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, Tacita Dean, Thomas Demand, A K Dolven, Elmgreen & Dragset, Jeffrey Eugenides, Mathew Hale, Carsten Höller, Clay Ketter, João Penalva, Dahn Vo, Mark Wallinger and Karen Yamatoday. A selection of their works are now on display at the exhibition fotoGRAFISK. Jensen’s unique photogravure shows the photos in different styles and gives them an almost paint-like expression.

The exhibition opens today at 5 pm and will be on display till May 28th 2012.

Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

Entrance: 25 DKK

More on
www.photography.dk

On April 1st all photographers will receive an email. If you are accepted to take part in the exhibition, the email will contain info about the further process.

Independent exhibitions
If you’re planning and coordinating your own exhibition in the greater Copenhagen area during the festival, your exhibition can be included in our program and catalogue. For further information regarding independent exhibitions please contact us at info(at)copenhagenphotofestival.com

The other part is a video installation, which like the first part deals with the relationship between reality and logic in a serious yet humorous fashion.

The exhibition opens today and will be on display until April 7th.

DAMP Gallery
Esplanaden 1C
DK – 1263 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12 Noon – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 4 pm

More about the exhibition at
dampgallery.dk

The key words of the 18th century were education, travelling, etiquette and pompous masquerades in the upper class. The downside to this polished facade was violence, punishment and slavery.

Five Aarhus-based photographers have interpreted this contrast-filled century and from Friday the result of their interpretations can be experienced in the exhibition “Photographic Interpretations” at Galleri Christina Lykke in Aarhus.

The five exhibited photographers are Jakob Mark, Jens Peter Engedal, Ragne Sigmund, Anne Højlund Nicolaisen and Lykke Rump.

Galleri Christina Lykke
Oestboulevarden 11 b
DK – 8000 Aarhus C

Opening Hours
Thursday: 12 Noon – 4 pm
Friday: 12 Noon – 4 pm
First Saturday of the month: 12 Noon – 4 pm

More about the exhibition at
http://www.gallerichristinalykke.dk/

Tomorrow Peter Lav Gallery officially opens its doors for an exhibition by art photographer Michael Mørk.

One of Michael Mørk’s trademarks is his fascination with minimizing the differences between photography and art. This fascination shines through in the new exhibition “Domestic Landscapes”, where a mundane IKEA cupboard is transformed into an object of tension and mystique.

The exhibition opens tomorrow and will be on display until April 28th.

Peter Lav Gallery
Esplanaden 8D
DK – 1263 Copenhagen

Read more about the exhibition and the artist at
www.plgallery.dk

The Irish film maker Philip Evans has done most of his work in the skate environment, which now has led to the film Format Perspective. The film shows 6 European photographers’ life, work and individual approaches to the skate environment and culture that ties them together.

In connection with the screening, there will be an exhibition with the photos that were taken by the photographers during the shooting of the film.

The photographers are Nils Svensson (Malmö), Stuart Robinson (Belfast), Alex Irving (London), Rich Gilligan (Dublin), Bertand Trichet (Barcelona/Tokyo) and Sergej Vutuc (Heilbronn).

Exhibition
Hotel Fox
Jamers Plads 3
DK- 1551 Copenhagen
Denmark

February 24th – March 3rd

Screening
Grand Teatret
Mikkel Bryggers Gade 8
DK- 1460 København K
Denmark

February 27th at 9.30 pm

Read more about the film, exhibition and the photographers at
bitchslapmag.com/

Galleri Image in Aarhus opens a new exhibition with Danish Pernille Koldbech Fich. In the exhibition Black you can experience classic portrait photography as well as interior photography. Common for both genres of photography is the creative approach Fich has to the the colour black, which normally plays an anonymizing background – in Fich’s photo, the colour on the other hand reveals and conceals the photos’ space. This approach to the colour black creates a sense of absence in a spaceless and timeless dark, which makes Fich’s photos poetic and reflective.

The vernissage is on Friday February 17th at 4 pm – 6 pm

Galleri Image
Vestergade 29
8000 Aarhus C

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 1 pm – 5 pm

Read more at
galleriimage.dk

In Stockholm in 2006 a number of gallery owners got together to create an art fair in the Swedish capital. The thought behind the fair was to promote Swedish and Scandinavian galleries and their representation of contemporary art. A year later Konstmässan Market opened its doors to the public for the very first time.

When Market opens tomorrow for this year’s fair, several Danish galleries will be exhibiting. Among the represented galleries is Martin Asbæk Gallery who is showing the photo exhibition “How to Hunt” by Nicolai Howalt and Trine Søndergaard, while Peter Lav Gallery has brought works by photographer Hyun-Jin Kwark. At this year’s fair you’ll also be able to meet Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Beaver Projects, Nils Stærk, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, V1 Gallery and Kant Gallery.

Besides Market, this weekend Stockholm will also be the host of the artist run art fair Supermarket, where you can meet KONTORprojects, Toves Galleri and Qwerty.

Both fairs open tomorrow and can be visited all weekend.

Read more at
www.market-art.se
supermarketartfair.com

Danish press photographers and photojournalists have throughout the years received considerable recognition worldwide for their unique style. Lately we’ve seen the Danish photographers acknowledged at Photographer of the Year International, where Mads Nissen, Morten Germund and Jacob Ehrbahn as well as Lærke Posselt were rewarded for their photos. Lærke Posselt was also rewarded in World Press Photo with her portrait of actress Melisa Mehraban, where Jan Dagø also won for his photos from Tahrir Square in Cairo.

It is therefore not without reason that the union, which houses most of these photographers, this year can celebrate their 100 year anniversary.

In connection with the anniversary the union has chosen to publish the book “The Witnesses – The History”, which shows Danish press photography through the last century. The book launch is Friday the 17th of February from 2 pm till 4 pm at The Worker’s Museum. In spring the celebration continues, when the exhibition “Danish Press Photography in a Century” opens May 15th at the King’s New Square in Copenhagen.

The Danish Museum of Photography in Herning set out on a mission to increase the artistic level in Danish art photo. The mission led to a curated photo exhibition with the theme “To The Edge”. The thought behind the theme is to engage a diverse audience as well as to surprise and even provoke the audience.

The guidelines for the exhibition were sent to Danish photographers and answered with no less than 300 singles and series. Out of the 300 photos, 59 singles and series were chosen by the curators; landscape photographer Kirsten Klein, art photographer Trine Søndergaard and commercial photographer Kenneth Havgaard.

The exhibition is on display until April 22nd.

The Danish Museum of Photography
Museumsgade 28
DK – 7800 Herning

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 12 noon – 4.30 pm

Read more about the exhibition at
www.fotomuseum.dk/UK/

Since its birth photography has always had an ability to raise numerous debates regarding ethical and moral questions. With photos from the concentration camps during the Second World War and the photo of guards and prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq society was forced to face the question of ethical warfare.

The art museum Trapholt in Kolding is currently hosting the exhibition “Controversial!” with 80 photos, which all caused world wide debate in the last century.

Trapholt
Aeblehaven 23
DK – 6000 Kolding

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am – 8 pm

Se the  photo by Lærke Posselt at
posseltphotography.com

See all the winning photos and read more about the competition at
www.worldpressphoto.org

In the middle of 2009 Danish photographer Adam Jeppesen began his long hike from Arctic to Antarctica – a 487 day long and lonely hike through South and North America. The only companionship Jeppesen had was his camera, which was used on a daily basis to document his lonesome trip.

The pictures from Jeppesen’s journey have a somewhat characteristic romantic though slightly melancholic feel to them, a result caused by the physical effects the journey had on the film.

The exhibition opens tomorrow and is on display till April 28th.

The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
DK – 1016 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Mon – Sat: 10 am – 7 pm

Read more about the exhibition at
www.kb.dk

In the winding streets of Copenhagen, behind the square Gråbrødretorv, you’ll find Galleri Tom Christoffersen, which currently is hosting phenomenal portrait photography.

The gallery shows an exhibition by portrait and art photographer Tove Kurtzweil. The Danish photographer is known for her many portraits of art icons as Gisela Freund, Richard Kern, Duane Michals, Helmut Newton, Yoko Ono, William Wegmann and many others which are currently exhibited at the gallery.

The exhibition is open till February 17th.

Galleri Tom Christoffersen
Skindergade 5
DK – 1159 Copenhagen

Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12 – 6 pm
Lørdag: kl 11 am – 4 pm

Read more about the exhibition at
tomchristoffersen.dk

The Copenhagen Costum Art Gallery is currently hosting a photo exhibition by Henrik Adamsen. The Danish fashion photographer has a long history in fashion, which began when he started working as a retoucher. He has since changed his focus to photography and with photography he has explored the king of clothing; the suit in all its variations.

The exhibition is open till February 28th.

Costum Art Gallery
Havnegade 44
DK – 1058 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Monday – Friday: 11 am – Midnight
Saturday: Noon – Midnight
Sunday: 1 pm – Midnight

Read more at
customartgallery.dk

The Aarhus-born photographer Petra Kleis is as of today exhibiting in the Copenhagen department store Illum with the series “Bugs”. The exhibition expresses a fascination of the animal by investigating the strong feelings most people seem to associate with this animal group – feelings such as fear, irritation or interest.

With a hard flash and loads of colors, the exhibition shows a variety of insects who all suffered the destiny of being killed by humans.

The exhibition opens today and runs until the end of April.

Illum
2nd floor
Østergade 52
DK – 1001 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Monday – Thursday: 10 am – 7 pm
Friday: 10 am – 8 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 6 pm

Read more at
www.nabolos.dk

With works in the collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Mette Tronvoll can be considered to be among the elite in portrait photography.

One of the signatures of the Norwegian photographer, is the scale in which she presents her work. With portraits in large scale, Tronvoll has filled Museet for Fotokunst (Museum of Photo Art) in Odense. The retrospective exhibition shows portraits from days in the studio to the documentary depiction of people in as marvellous surroundings as the nature of Greenland, Mongolia and Japan.

The exhibition is open from January 20th to March 11th.

Museet for Fotokunst BRANDTS
Brandts Torv 1
DK – 5000 Odense

Opening hours
Tue – Sun: 10 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 12 am – 9 pm

More on
www.brandts.dk

10 years ago Danish Kim Grenaa and Uffe Buchard launched the international fashion and lifestyle magazine DANSK Magazin, to create a platform for and to promote Danish fashion abroad. In the last 10 years the magazine has established itself on the international market and is today published twice a year and distributed on six continents.

In collaboration with Danish Design Centre the two magazine founders have curated this exhibition to provide the audience with a walk-through of the history Danish fashion has gone through in the last decade.

Danish Design Centre
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 27
DK – 1533 København V

Opening Hours
Monday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm
Wednesday: 10 am – 9 pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11 am – 4 pm

Read more about the exhibition at ddc.dk

Until March 18th it’s possible to experience Gambia through the eyes of three generations of Gambian women as part of the exhibition “Even now to explain everything would be difficult” at Fotografisk Center.

The Danish artist Gitte Villesen is mainly known for her videos, but is currently exhibiting the project ” I Will Arrange Everything. It Will Be the Best Film Ever”, which consists of three video projections in a staged installation. The project is carried out in collaboration with camera man Jonas Mortensen and Gambian Amadou Sarr, who gets to play an active role in the project, as the three projections are based on women in his life; his third wife Mariama Senghor, her mother Mariama Corr and her grandmother Yenden Joff. Through conversations with these women, we get to see what it’s like to be a woman in a country where magic plays an essential part and the gender roles are far from what we’re used to.

Besides “I Will Arrange Everything. It Will Be the Best Film Ever” three of Villesen’s previous projects  “A Silent Movie” (2007), “Script for a Silent Movie” (2006) and “Kitchen etc” (2006) are available as part of this current exhibition.

The exhibition opened January 21st and runs until March 18th.

Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen

Opening Hours
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

Entrance: 25 DKK

More on:
www.photography.dk

As Copenhagen Fashion Festival once again is taking over Copenhagen several photo exhibitions are appearing all over town. One of the exhibitions is Northern Women in Chanel by Peter Farago and Ingela Klemetz Farago.

The exhibition, which previously has been shown at photography museum Fotografiska in Stockholm, is now visiting Denmark at Designmuseum Danmark. In the exhibition the Faragos duo have portrayed Scandinavian and Baltic supermodels all dressed in clothes by the revolutionary fashion house CHANEL. The photos beautifully show the historic development of the label all presented by 45 of the most popular northern models.

The exhibition opens today and runs until April 8th.

Designmuseum Danmark
Bredgade 68
1260 København K

Opening Hours
Tuesday – Sunday: 11 am – 5 pm
Monday: Closed
- open till 9 pm every Wednesday from the 14th of February 2012

We are currently open for admissions for participation in the 2012 Copenhagen Photo Festival. You can read more about admission procedure here. Deadline is March 15th.

For inquiries, please contact

Project Manager
Trine Rindsig Laursen
trine@copenhagenphotofestival.com
+45 4244 2010

The Newly Graduated Photojournalist Astrid Dalum Wins Scanpix Award

The Scanpix Award honors the best graduate project from the photo journalistic program at The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus.

Graduate Astrid Dalum was awarded with the prestigious prize. Dalum was chosen for her project about women, their bodies and the view women have of it.

I Am Woman
How do women feel about their body? That’s the question photographer Astrid Dalum asks 22 women in the project “I Am Woman”. The women is either concerned about appearance, age, sexuality, weight, illness or pregnancy. Some women are okay with their body – some are not.

See the entire project here:
www.journalisthojskolen.dk/showcase

German Andreas Gursky, who last year set the record, by selling the photo Rhine II for over 2 million pounds, is now exhibiting 45 giant photos at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

On first hand, Gursky’s photo might appear as the aesthetic perfection or even as the perfect picture, but if you step a little closer, you will notice discrepancies – it doesn’t really seem like the actual reality. Gursky is most of the time in, what can be called, an area, which boarders between photography and painting. All of Gursky’s photos are not just simple, lightly edited photos, as we know from some of the classical genres of photography. Most of his photos consist of several photos mixed and matched, edited and manipulated. It is therefore not just photography nor painting, but more like a whole new reality – a reality, the human eye simply wasn’t able to detect.

It is not only the convergence of all the photos, which is the reason for Gursky’s photos being called the photography’s equivalent to extreme sports, it is also the subject and its surroundings as well as the often extreme angles from where the photos are shot.

The exhibition opened January 13th and runs until May 13th – and is one of this year’s must sees!

Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13
DK- 3050 Humlebæk

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday 11-22
Saturday and Sunday 11-18
Public Holidays 11-18
Monday closed

When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 filled the sky over Europe with volcanic ashes, it soon became an eyeopener for Danish Mette Bersang and British Kathrine Marquis, when they realized the effect of the lack of airplanes in the sky. With this newfound insight the two artists got together to explore the epochal  airborne transportation vehicle.

The exhibition does not only explore the airplane, with its physically shape, size and form but also its surroundings – the skies. With the cancellation of all air traffic during Eyjafjallajökull’s outbreak, all the long, white, vaporized trails of the airplane – a phenomenon we’re so used to today, but rarely give any thought about, suddenly went missing. It is through these elements Bersang and Marquis explore and try to map the airplane, its surroundings and its journey, all in beautiful and poetic photography, drawing and various print making techniques.

Exhibition runs from January 28th – February 4th 2012

KONTORprojects
Værnedamsvej 7A, baghuset
1819 Frederiksberg C
Phone: +45  2791 4164
Mail: mail@kontorprojects.dk

Opening hours
Wednesday – Friday: 12 noon – 5 pm
Saturday:  12 noon – 5 pm
Or by appointment

From November 25th 2011, the Greenlandic artist Julie Edel Hardenberg is showing an exhibition about Western stereotypes with a Greenlandic point of view.

In a time where the distance to a society bound by tradition is increasing, the differences between those who work in the traditional professions and those who has stepped into the ever-changing, modern society are rapidly appearing. The difference and distance between these worlds, is Hardenberg’s subject in the exhibition Sapiitsut/Heroes.

As a native Greenlander, Hardenberg has seen and experienced this distancing, and a big part of her previous works have been about the Greenlandic identity and Greenlanders’ understanding of themselves. This is expressed in the exhibition by staging the citizens of Nuuk as movie stars on fictional film posters. The posters, which are created in cooperation with photographer Lars Frederik Anders, are a way to focus on the increasing role, Western culture has in Greenland as well as in the daily life of its citizens.

Exhibition:
Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen
25.11.11 – 15.01.12
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

Entrance: 25 DKK

More on:
www.photography.dk
www.hardenberg.dk

Denmark’s first multicultural street photo exhibition is now being published as a book.

The windows of the stores on Nørrebrogade were transformed into the longest photo gallery in Denmark, when the residents of Nørrebro exhibited their own pictures of the daily life in one of the most exposed neighborhoods in Copenhagen, during Copenhagen Photo Festival 2011.

The photographers Joachim Ladefoged and Jacob Holdt and gallery owner Martin Asbæk selected the pictures for the exhibition, which now in the shape of a book appear as an authentic and multicultural portrait of this diverse part of town.

A selection of photos from 2200 Everyday Rituals will be exhibited at Cafe Retro in relations to the launch.

Book launch
Friday October 28th 2011
4 – 6 pm
Cafe Retro Nørrebro
Jærgersborggade 14
DK – 2200 Copenhagen

Tonight the visitors at this year’s Culture Night will be able to dig into art – and dirt.

For tonight’s Culture Night, Museum of Copenhagen has arranged a variety of different and exciting events for the whole family. The events include everything from workshops in recycling and urban photo safari to archaeological studies, and can all be experienced at the museum as well as in the streets.

At the City Hall Square you will be able to flip through the 150.000 pictures of Copenhagen, which are exhibited at The Wall in the middle of the square. Just behind The Wall it’s hard not to notice the huge archeological excavation, where you will be able to see and hear the archeologists tell about their work on the excavation site.

From the City Hall Square you will have the opportunity to join the urban photo safaris, where you, in the company of a professional photographer, will be able to rexplore the old capital through the lens of your camera. All the safaris end at the Museum of Copenhagen, where artist and designer Jeremy Walton is hosting a workshop on how to use the things we otherwise would just have thrown out.

More on the events on
copenhagen.dk
kulturnatten.dk

During this year’s Culture Night, the photo collective 16tyve will be showing photos from all around the world.

With a mixture of commercial photographers and photojournalists, the photographers at 16tyve have chosen to host an exhibition with 14 international photographers. Among the exhibited photographers are some of the photographers who participated in this year’s photo festival including Maria Fonfara, depicting the often tabooed subject of love and sexuality amongst the elderly and Mette Frandsen with the raw black and white series “Sin City” about the almost Quentin Tarantino-like universe in Las Vegas.
Also participating in this exhibition is Peter Dench (UK) with his series “England Uncensured” – a story about a people, who aren’t known for their great cuisine nor their great sense of fashion.
The American photographer Darcy Padilla is exhibiting the series “Julie” about a girl, who’s had to overcome more obstacles in her short life, than most people would dare to imagine.
“Zona Sibirian Prison Camps” is a series presented by the Belgian photographer Carl De Keyzer. The series shows the reality De Keyzer was allowed to portray on his journey around the Sibirian prison camps, a reality strictly guarded by the military.

The photographers:
Brenda Ann Keanally (US), Carl De Keyzer (B), Darcy Padilla (US), Fernando Moleres (E), Ingo Arndt (D), Maria Fonfara (DK), Peter Dench (UK), Martin Schoeller (D), Brian Skerry (US), Mette Frandsen (DK), Yuri Kozyrev (RUS), Thomas Nielsen (DK), Wim De Schamphelaere (B), Carolyn Drake (US)

16tyve
Vesterbrogade 80B
DK – 1620 Copenhagen
14.10.11
From 7 pm

More about the event and the photographers:
16tyve.dk
facebook.com/16tyve

The world’s best press photos are once again visiting Denmark.

Since 1955, the press photo’s equivalent to the Olympics has grown bigger and bigger, and has over and over again been able to put focus back on the importance of photography in the daily news.

Each year, the World Press Photo exhibition tours the world and shows the audience the events of the last year, depicted in beautiful (but at times gruesome) excerpts – and this year’s exhibition is no exception.

The exhibition:
Pressen
JP/Politikens Hus
Rådhuspladsen 37
DK – 1785 Copenhagen
Denmark
07.10.11 – 02.11.11

Opening hours:
Monday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Tuesday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Wednesday: 1 pm – 9 pm
Thursday: 1 pm – 9 pm
Friday: 1 pm – 6 pm
Saturday: 11 am – 6 pm
Sunday 11 am – 6 pm

More on:
worldpressphoto.org
politiken.dk

The Danish Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol will until Sunday be exhibiting at Fotografisk Center with the highly acclaimed exhibition “Stories”.

Jacob Aue Sobol is known for his series of black and white documentary photos, that with an almost snapshot-like expression become visual stories, which also applies to this exhibition. A selection of photos from previous series tell some of Sobol’s stories from Bangkok and Tokyo as well as from Denmark and Greenland.

Exhibition:
Fotografisk Center
Tap E, Carlsberg
Pasteursvej 14
DK – 1799 Copenhagen
03.09.11 – 09.10.11
Tue – Sun: 11 am – 5 pm
Thurs: 11 am – 8 pm

More on:
www.photography.dk
www.auesobol.dk

In the series “Beneath the Roses”, photographer Gregory Crewdson stages the idyllic American suburb with a sense of melancholic tranquility.

The National Museum of Photography is hosting an exhibition by the American photographer Gregory Crewdson. The exhibition contains three of Crewdson’s series, each of them carried out in a beautiful but solitary imagery.
In the series “Beneath the Roses”, the ideals of the American family are portrayed with an almost cinematic composition of scenery and characters – characters loaded with a claustrophobic sense of yearning and desire. The desire is equally obvious in the black and white series “Fireflies”, where Crewdson is able to create a feeling of peaceful yet tense desire with the light from the mating ritual of fireflies.
In the third series of the exhibition “Sanctuary”, Crewdson has been to the Italian village Cincittà and documented the abandoned movie sets with a unique beauty.

Exhibition:
The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
DK – 1016 Copenhagen
23.09.11 – 28.01.12
Mon – Sat: 10 am – 7 pm

More on:
www.kb.dk

Multiplicity and tolerance are the keywords behind photographer Klaus Thymann’s exhibition about the Danish freetown Christiania – a city within a city.

With a focus on the anarchistic architecture of Christiania, Thymann shows, that even a small town like Copenhagen is able to have another layer. The goal behind the exhibition is to create a time capsule. Without the use of digital aid, Thymann has created a photographic documentary of a city within the city before it’s absorbed through normalization.

Exhibition:
Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic centre drive
Torrance, CA
17.09.11 – 29.10.11

More on:
www.torranceartmuseum.com
www.thymann.com
www.facebook.com/event

In the exhibition Endings, the Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt examines society’s view on death anno 2011.

Through a study of the leftover ashes of the human cremation, Howalt is liberating death from the cultural, religious and social context. In the six large-sized and six smaller photos, this dust of death is transformed into abstract landscapes, which in their own unique texture create a characteristic whole.

Opening:
Martin Asbæk Gallery
Bredgade 23
DK -1260 Copenhagen
23.09.11
5 pm – 7 pm

Exhibition:
Martin Asbæk Gallery
Bredgade 23
DK – 1260 Copenhagen
23.09.11 – 22.10.11
Tue-Fri: 11 am – 6 pm, Sat: 11 am – 4 pm
More on:
www.martinasbaek.com
www.nicolaihowalt.com

On Friday Carlsberg’s Ny Tap opens its doors for the group exhibition Face, Head and Shoulders. The exhibitions shows 26 young, international photographers’ interpretation of portrait photography.

Challenging the Portrait
It is the first inititative from the new curator collectiv Lodret, which consist of the two Danish art photographers Flemming Ove Bech and Johan Rosenmunthe, who with this international group exhibition are putting focus on the diversity of photography as well as challenging the classic portrait photography.

The exhibited artists have with their individual visual expression taken up the challenge with these new interpretations of one of the most traditional genres in photography: the portrait.

The photographers are:
Erica Allen (US), Marie Angeletti (FR), Flemming Ove Bech (DK), Lucas Blalock (US), Steven Brahms (US), Grant Cornett (US), Charlotte Dumas (NL), Gerald Edwards III (US), Peter Helles Eriksen (DK), Thobias Fäldt (SE), Fryd Frydendahl (DK), Thomas Hauser (DE), Valdemar Jørgensen (DK), Andreas Laszlo Konrath (UK), Mårten Lange (SE), Wayne Liu (CH), Joshua Lutz (US), Michael Madsen (DK), Matthew Monteith (US), Frankie Nazardo (IT), Jenny Nordquist (SE), Justin James Reed (US), Johan Rosenmunthe (DK), Diana Scherer (NL), Bill Sullivan (US), Isabelle Wenzel (DE)

Opening:
Carlsberg Ny Tap
15.09.11
Kl. 17-22

Main Exhibition:
Carlsberg Ny Tap
15.09.11 – 15.10.11
Every day from 12-17
Free entrance

Satellite Exhibition:
Kunsthallen Nikolaj
29.09.11 – 05.10.11
Check website for opening hours
Free entrance

More on:
www.lodretogfriends.com
www.facebook.com/lodretvandret
www.kunsthallennikolaj.dk/

Copenhagen Photo Festival thanks for a successful 2011. We’ll return June 7-17 2012. In the meanwhile, the Copenhagen Photo Festival page will communicate information on Danish and international photo exhibitions and events throughout the year.

Symposium

The photojournalist patiently waits for the right moment and the perfect composition, while the art photographer plans and stages his work down to the smallest detail. This year’s symposium at Statens Museum for Kunst during Copenhagen Photo Festival focuses on staged photography. The photographers Per Morten Abrahamsen, Joachim Ladefoged, Henrik Saxgren and Ziv Koren all work with photography, but with each their individual approach.

Moderator at the symposium is Kristine Kern, new manager of the reopened Center of Photography.

Entrance: Free
Date: Saturday June 18th
Time: 11 am – 2 pm
Place: Statens Museum for Kunst, Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 Copenhagen K

Vernisage of Indoors // Outdoors

It is through the fresh eyes of Maja Nydal Eriksen and Simone Lilmoes that new light is thrown on the newest part of Copenhagen; Ørestaden. With its award-winning architecture it sets frames for tales of the everyday life.
In the photoexhibition Indoors // Outdoors Maja Nydal Eriksen and Simone Lilmoes interpret and frame the soft lines of this part of the city

Date: Wednesday, June 15th
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Place: VM Bjerget, Ørestads Boulevard 55, 2300 Copenhagen S

Here and Now

The exhibition takes you on a journey to Spain. One photographer takes you to bullfighting, another one shows you the typical Spanish woman or invites you to visit the family …

14 Spanish documentary photographers give us a unique insight into contemporary Spain. An honest look. The exhibition allows us to stand in the footsteps of the photographers seeing the society from a personal perspective.

Each photographer show us a fraction of Spain, together they form a whole. We take a look into the society from ankles that the ordinary tourist will never experience. We see Spain through the eyes of Spain.

It is recommendable to take the two floor travel all the way to Spain.

Here and Now is exhibited in Ny Carlsberg Bryghus.