PHOTOGRAPHY PLAYERS: DANISH PHOTO-ART SCENE

On Friday, 29 January, 18.00 (CET) Celina Lunsford, artistic director of the FFF, Alison Nordström, international curator and art scholar, and the Danish photographer Torben Eskerod will discuss in an Online Gallery Talk the making of and concept behind the current FFF exhibition FINDINGS. TORBEN ESKEROD. Curated by Alison Nordström, the show is installed, and it will open at the end of the current lockdown to be seen until May 09, 2021. This talk will be streamed online on the FFF YouTube channel and here on the FFF website.

On Saturday, 30 January, 14.00–19.00 (CET) the online zoom event will take place in two sessions and will be opened live by the Danish Ambassador to Germany, Susanne Hyldelund. The research librarian and photography curator Sarah Giersing will follow presenting The National Collection of Photography of the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen. Photography expert and publisher Jens Friis will give insights into the Danish photo book scene and KATALOG, one of Europe’s longest running photo-art magazines. 

Various photo and film artists such as Inuuteq Storch, Torben Eskerod and Fryd Frydendahl will be highlighted, giving the creative evidence of their work, the curators Beate Cegielska, director of Galleri Image in Aarhus, and Kirstine Autzen will talk about the collaboration between exhibition makers and artists, using the current exhibition “Soil Studies” as an example, with some of the participating artists such as Lotte Fløe Christensen, Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Inuuteq Storch and Veronika Geiger. Furthermore, artist Fryd Frydendahl, will talk about photographic education in Denmark, with an emphasis on her new position as the principal of the photo school Fatamorgana in Copenhagen.

The online symposium DANISH PHOTO-ART SCENE is part of the accompanying programme of the exhibition FINDINGS. TORBEN ESKEROD and also of the FFF format PHOTOGRAPHY PLAYERS. INTERNATIONAL SPECIALISTS FEATURING UPCOMING TALENTS.