About the photographer and the photos

Architect from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, 1979.

Started to exhibit photographic works in the late 1990s, and over the years I have had many exhibitions at home and abroad, including at the Danish Museum of Photo Arts, Brandts in Odense and NordArt in Germany.

My photographs have featured in newspapers and photo magazines. My work has been shown in a documentary on Danish television.

In 2023 I published the book: "Photographic short stories", which are available from online booksellers.

I live in central Odense with my English wife.

TECHNIQUE

The black-and-white photos are - with few exceptions - taken with the use of film/analog cameras using large negative format and developed in the darkroom.

Many of the photos have been created using different trick effects, such as double, triple or multiple exposures. Tricks effects have also been created in the darkroom.

The color photographs are digital.

I paint all the backgrounds myself. Most of the props are homemade.

ABOUT THE PICTURES

Photographic art is often centred on registering or interpreting the physical world around us.

What I’m interested in is to create my own little worlds which the viewer is invited to explore. Little worlds that call upon the imagination of the viewer to uncover the short stories within them. 

The figures in these stories are often naked. Clothing situates the figure in a certain era and projects a distinct cultural identity. This leaves less room for the imagination. The mystery disappears. Without clothing, the figure transcends time and place.

In contrast to vitalism in the early 1900s and the youth rebellion of the 1970s, the naked body today is associated with the sexual – not with freedom and naturalness. There is no room for “imperfect bodies”. This is a mindset that I would like to challenge with my pictures.

We are created equal – and yet we are so different. I find that fascinating. Therefore, everyone can be used as a model.

All photos on this website are covered by copyright!