Joakim Eskildsen

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Joakim Eskildsen ([ ˈjɔɑkɪm ˈɛskɪldsən ]; * December 22, 1971 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish photography artist and photographer .

Location

Eskildsen was a student of the court photographer Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Helsinki in 1994 to learn the craft of making photographic books at Pentti Sammallahti at the School of Art and Design there . He has exhibitions in Europe (Germany, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain), in China, in Florida, in South Korea and emerged in South Africa.

Works

The Roma trips

Eskildsen worked with the writer Cia Rinne in seven European countries from 2000 to 2006. a. of the East visited the Roma and in India ethnic groups that may be related to the Roma. On the basis of several weeks of shared life with the people concerned, the work Die Romareisen emerged, which through its text and over 200 epic portraits and milieu studies gives an insight into the cosmos of the Roma. The photographs of the work are praised as the soulful creations of an artist who consciously penetrates the atmosphere on site and tries to understand the everyday life and lifestyle of the people he portrays.

Chronological overview

  • Nordic Signs (1995)
  • Meknes (1997)
  • Trær (1997)
  • Bluetide (with Cia Rinne, 1997)
  • iChickenMoon (with Cia Rinne and Sebastian Eskildsen, 1999)
  • al-Madina (with Pentti Sammallahti and Kristoffer Albrecht , 2002)
  • The Roma trips: Hungary - India - Greece - Romania - France - Russia - Finland. Text: Cia Rinne. Foreword: Günter Grass . Steidl , Göttingen 2007

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Joakim Eskildsen in synart-artgallery ( memento of the original from July 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.synart-artgallery.de
  2. ^ Joakim Eskildsen - Photography (Eskildsen's website). Accessed February 12, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c d Portfolio: Joakim Eskildsen . Geo .de - Portfolio of the month (collection of fifteen photographs from Die Romareisen ). Accessed February 12, 2011
  4. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: photo exhibition "The Roma Journey": filth, misery, pride . Spiegel Online , November 17, 2009
  5. ^ Uli Eberhardt: German Photo Book Prize 2009: Reading feed for photo fans . Fokussiert.com, November 6, 2008, accessed November 20, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Eskildsen, Joakim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd December 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen