Henrik Saxgren

Henrik Saxgren (born April 1, 1953 in Randers , Jutland in Denmark ) is a photographer and publisher .

life and work

After school, he trained as a commercial photographer before turning to photojournalism. The focus here is on Cuba and Ecuador as well as crisis areas such as Haiti , Palestine and Rwanda . From 1979 to 1995 he was a founding member of the 2Maj photo agency in Copenhagen and from 1985 to 1991 he was also the photo editor of the critical Danish monthly Ma (o) nadsbladet Press . Until the publication of his book Solomon's House in 2000, Saxgren lived in Nicaragua . He then spent two years in Ecuador and Gaza in Palestine.

His exhibition of photographs Landscapes of War has been shown in Toronto , Esbjerg in Jutland, Glückstadt and Copenhagen , among others . In 2006 he completed the photo book War & Love - Immigration into the Nordic Countries . This portrays and describes the situation of around 80 immigrants and immigrant families in Denmark and Sweden . An exhibition of the same title has so far been shown in Gothenburg , Helsinki , Copenhagen, Aarhus , Stockholm , Oslo and Iceland . In 2009 Saxgren exhibited a photo series with the title: Unintended Sculpture (German: unintended sculptures) in the National Fotografi Museum in Copenhagen and in the Asbaek Gallery in Copenhagen. In Germany, an illustrated book was published in German and English.

Illustrated books

• Points of View: POV Gyldendal, København 1998, ISBN 978-87-00-25318-6 . American edition: Aperture, New York, NY 1998, ISBN 0893817716 .
• Land uden faedre. Gyldendal, København 2000, ISBN 978-87-00-48438-2 .
• Solomon's House: The Lost Children of Nicaragua. American edition: Aperture, New York, NY ISBN 0893819204 . (Preface: Bianca Jagger ).
• Pylonia. Gyldendal, København 2000, ISBN 978-87-00-47664-6 .
• Krig og Kaerlighed: om indvandringen in the north. Gyldental, København 2006, ISBN 87-02-02472-1 . International edition: War and Love: about Immigration into the Nordic Countries.
• Eftersyn. Gyldendal, København 2003, ISBN 978-87-02-02459-3 .
• Bill Kouwenhoven, Timothy Persons: Henrik Saxgren: Unintended Sculptures. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2009, ISBN 978-3-7757-2501-9 (exhibition catalog).

Awards

• 2006: Martin Andersen Nexø prizes
• 2000: Carsten Nielsen-Prisen, Dansk Journalistforbund
• 1995: The Top One Hundred Photographers, Maine, USA.

Public collections

• ARoS Aarhus Art Museum , Denmark
• Museet for Photo Art , Odense, Denmark
• Frederiksborg Museum , Denmark
• Noorderlight Photography Gallery, Netherlands
• Carlsberg Foundation , Denmark
• Danish Art Foundation (Danish Art Foundation)
• Danish Royal Library

Web links

• Literature by and about Henrik Saxgren in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official website of Henrik Saxgren , English