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Photography

Photography in a climate time

Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the vanishing in a special way.
Steffen Moestrup -

Absorbed by the exterior

Gero Von Boehm: Helmut Newton – The Bad and the Beautiful

PHOTO: Photographer Helmut Newton's controversial cult status persists long after his death.
Melita Zajc -

Japanese women's views on life, gender roles and society

Anne-Stine Johnsbråten (photo): Good Wife, Wise Mother

PHOTO: Japanese women struggle between traditional gender roles, an expectation of work effort and reproduction while maintaining the role of "good wife, wise mother".
Patricia Sequeira Brás -

South African identity

PHOTO: The South African photographer Santu Mofokeng recently died at the age of 63. His image essays from the time during and after apartheid, on the other hand, live on.
Nina Beach -

A desire for materiality

PHOTOGRAPHY: Can a photo hit us? Or can it show limitations imposed on the individual by family and societal expectations?
Nina Beach -

To tell something important about others

Fred Baldwin: Dear Mr. Picasso. An illustrated love affair with freedom

PHOTOGRAPHY:: The world-famous photographer Fred Baldwin has published his memoirs at the age of 90. Is this a strange insight into a human being who, through everything and everyone he meets, first and foremost sees himself?
Nina Trige Andersen -

Skinless exposure

Margreth Olin, Katja Høgset, Espen Wallin: self Portrait

anorexia: shameless uses Lene Marie Fossen's own tormented body as a canvas for grief, pain and longing in her series of self-portraits – relevant both in the documentary self Portrait and in the exhibition Gatekeeper.
Ellen Lande -

The photo model that would not be filmed

Beniamino Barrese: The Disappearance of My Mother

SKY LINSE LICE: The camera-dependent photo model now shuns her son's worn-in documentary filming, at the same time as she criticizes the image-driven model industry she has had as a livelihood.
Astra Soldiers -

Blind doña Maria sees a borderless landscape

Elisabetta Balasso: Doña Maria and your dreams. Photographer Horst Friedrichs

PHOTO BOOK: The book Doña Maria und Ihre Träume offers an exceptional journey through Venezuela's barren and mysterious desert landscape with a touch of magical realism.
João Vilela Geraldo -

The explosive power of the snapshot

Maria Pasenau: Whit Kind Regrets

ABOUT THE PHOTO BOOK: An intense and ambiguous conversation in several layers about the photo book, which with its context premise elevates the snapshot.
Ellen Lande -

A woman in the boys club

Linda Gordon: Inge Morath: An Illustrated Biography

PHOTO: Inge Morath was one of the few female photographers of the 1950s who became a member of the male-dominated Magnum Photos. In this illustrated biography we get to take part in her adventurous and unconventional life.
Pinar Ciftci -

Moments into the suffering of others

Rune Eraker, Laara Matsen, Espen Rasmussen: Norwegian Journal of Photography

DOCUMENTARY PHOTO: The opportunity is now to see what professional documentary photographers do.
Truls Lie -
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COPENHAGEN PHOTO FESTIVAL / Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the disappearing in a special way.

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