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Photography Archives - Copenhagen Photo Festival
As a new initiative Copenhagen Photo Festival launches its Open Call 2023 under te overarching theme of ‘Rewilding’, which highlights sustainability and Copenhagen’s appointment as UNESCO’s World Capital of Archetecture in 2023. With te theme ‘Rewilding’ te festival encourages artists, talents and photographers to think ‘wildly’ and set photography free. Te winners of te call wins a solo exhibition during next year’s festival in June.
An urban wilderness in te middle of Copenhagen may not be te most obvious exhibition venue, but te old Danish industrial giant B&W’s shipyard, which is placed on te island of Refshaleøen in te sweet spot between Copenhagen Contemporary, Michelin-Restaurant Alchemist and Reffen Street Food, has for several years been a green exhibition space and backdrop for Copenhagen Photo Festival.
Te place is a historical piece of land in te midst of an industrial urban space which once laid ground to te building of ships. Since then rose hips, trees and wildflowers have taken over te former building site.
In 2023 te festival focuses on te topical concept ‘Rewilding’: “with our theme we address a current agenda and invite artists and photographers to expand te usual exhibition conventions – glas and frame on white walls – and explore new perspectives on urban spaces and sustainability. On ‘Beddingen’, as te former shipyard is known, we have an exceptional opportunity to lay out an urban landscape to this challenge – and to rewild photography,” says festival director Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen.
Te theme ‘rewilding’ is particularly relevant as Copenhagen will bring special attention to sustainability in 2023 as UNESCO’s World Capital of Architecture which will focus specifically on te UN’s 17 sustainable development goals. ‘Rewilding’ refers to a process where nature regulates itself without interference from humans and without serving human purposes
Te term has in recent years been used to propose solutions to some of today’s climate and biodiversity crises. But te concept also shakes established power relations and challenges traditional understandings of te relationship between humans and nature. Te festival encourages artists, talents and photographers to explore this field and to interpret te term in its broadest sense.
Calling established and aspiring artists from all over te world
We encourage all interested artists, photographers and talents to apply for CPF’s Open Call 2023. Te winners will be chosen by te members of our programme committee: head of te DMJX, Søren Pagter; curator and head of communication at Martin Asbæk Gallery, Patricia Breinholm; photo editor at te newspaper Weekendavisen, Mie Brinkmann and festival director Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen.
Deadline is 1 November. Winners are announced on 1 March. Te exhibitions will open during next year’s festival in June.
Find more information about te open call here
Start your submission for te open call here
Som noget nyt lancerer Copenhagen Photo Festival næste års open call under ét bærende tema, der binder an til bæredygtighed og Københavns udnævnelse som arkitekturhovedstad i 2023. Med temaet ‘Rewilding’ opfordrer festivalen til at tænke ‘vildt’ og sætte den fotografiske kunst fri i naturen. Vinderne får deres egen soloudstilling under festivalen i 2023
Det er måske de færreste, der tænker, at et urbant vildnis på Refshaleøen er et oplagt udstillingsrum, men B&Ws gamle bedding, der ligger i smørhullet mellem Copenhagen Contemporary, Restaurant Alchemist og Reffen Street Food, har i flere år lagt græs, buske og udstillingsrum til Copenhagen Photo Festival.
Stedet er et historisk stykke jord midt i Refshaleøens industrielle byrum, der engang blev brugt til at bygge B&W’s skibe på. Siden har det fået lov til at forvilde som en tidslomme blandt Refshaleøens rå arkitektur, hvor hybenroser og vilde blomster nu har overtaget den nedlagte bedding.
I 2023 stiller festivalen skarpt på det højaktuelle begreb ‘rewilding’  – eller genforvildning med et fordansket ord:
“Med vores tema taler vi ind i en topaktuel agenda og inviterer kunstnere og fotografer til at udvide de gængse konventioner om glas, ramme og hvide vægge for at se nye perspektiver på byrum og bæredygtighed. På Beddingen har vi en enestående mulighed for at lægge landskab til den udfordring og gøre fotografiet vildt igen,” siger festivaldirektør Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen.
Temaet ‘rewilding’ binder an til, at København i 2023 er verdens arkitekturhovedstad med særligt fokus på bæredygtighed og de 17 verdensmål. Det betegner en proces, hvor naturen får lov til at regulere sig selv uden indblanding fra mennesker og uden at tjene menneskelige formål.
Begrebet har vundet frem i de senere år som en løsningsmodel på nogle af tidens klima- og biodiversitetskriser. Samtidig ryster begrebet også ved etablerede magtstrukturer, der udfordrer en traditionel forståelse af forholdet mellem mennesket og naturen. Festivalen opfordrer ansøgere til at afsøge dette spændingsfelt – og til den videst mulige tolkning af begrebet.
Kalder alle etablerede og spirende kunstnere!
Alle interesserede kunstnere og fotografer opfordres til at søge. Vinderne udvælges af festivalens programudvalg, der består af lederen af DMJX’s fotolinje, Søren Pagter, kurator og kommunikationsansvarlig hos Martin Asbæk Gallery, Patricia Breinholm, Weekendavisens fotoredaktør, Mie Brinkmann og festivaldirektør, Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen.
Deadline er 1. november, og vinderne annonceres 1. marts. Udstillingerne åbner til næste års festival i juni.
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Nominated to Byens Bedste 2022
Nomineret til Byens Bedste 2022
"Copenhagen Photo Festival rykkede igen i år ind på museer i København – med Refshaleøen som centrum. Som en af Europas største har festivalen et væld af interessante udstillinger og temaer at gå om bord i – i år blandt andet vietnamesiske Hien Hoang, som bidrog med »Asia Bistro – Made in Rice«, hvor hun stiller skarpt på indgroede forestillinger om asiatisk kultur.
Årets festival var også særlig, da den gav et indblik i krigen i Ukraine med udstillingen »Te Thin Line«, som bestod af billeder taget af ukrainske fotografer, der skulle have udstillet på Odesa Photo Days. I stedet har de portrætteret krigen i både byer og på landet."
Sådan skriver Berlingske i deres indstilling til nomineringen af Copenhagen Photo Festival som Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022.
Stem og hjælp os med at vinde
Vi er super stolte over at være blandt de blot fem nominerede i kategorien Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022, for som Berlingske skriver “Der er altid noget at give sig til i København. Oplevelser venter om hvert et gadehjørne. Men hvilken oplevelse har været den bedste det seneste år?”
Vi håber naturligvis, at du synes, at vores fotofestival har været Byens Bedste Oplevelse i år. Festivalen fejrer fotografiet i store og små gallerier, museer og udstillingssteder i hele København samt i vores festivalcentrum på Refshaleøen.
Vi håber, at så mange som muligt vil bakke op og stemme på os. Det er et flot selskab af oplevelser, vi er nomineret sammen med, så hver stemme tæller! Vinderen findes dels via en åben afstemning samt af en Jury bestående af AOK-redaktionens genreredaktører.
Hop ind og stem på os her!
Nominated to Byens Bedste 2022
What wonderful news! Copenhagen Photo Festival has just been nominated to Byens Bedste Oplevelse 2022 (Copenhagen’s Best Event  2022) by te Danish national newspaper Berlingske and its Copenhagen section AOK!!
We are so thrilled! Te prize is given every year to te best event in Copenhagen – this year for te 21st time! We are super proud to be among te just five nominated in te category Byens Bedste Oplevelse. Because as Berlingske writes “There is always something to do in Copenhagen. New events/experiences are just around every street corner. But which one has been te best te past year?”
We really hope that you think that it is our festival! Copenhagen Photo Festival celebrates photography across Copenhagen in galleries, museums and exhibition spaces as well as at our Festival Center on Refshaleøen.
Te winner of te best event of te city is found partly by votes and partly by a jury consisting of editors of te newspaper.  Te event with most votes obviously has a great advantage. Therefore we hope you will support our nomination – it would truly mean te world to us being a small non-profit festival! Please note you do not have to be a resident of Copenhagen or Denmark to participate in te vote – you can vote wherever you are in te world!
Hop in and vote for us here!
Online screening: Granny’s Life
All summer you have te chance to visit te outdoor, large scale exhibition Granny by te Ukrainian artist Olena Morozova on te walls of our exhibition venue Frame on Refshaleøen. Te touching exhibition was part of this year’s photo festival as a part of Odesa Photo Days. It explores te relationship between te artist and her grandmother, who was once an independent feminist, but was living with dementia in te last years of her life.
As a special summer treat we can now also show Olena Morozova’s film Granny here. Te film was shown in our cinema during te festival. We urge you to see Morozova’s portrait of her granny and also to support her fundraiser to get te project published – we would love to see this project as a book!
You can pre-order te book or find more information on how to support here
“In te photos of te project Granny are my granny, me and my younger children Maria and Tymur. My granny had a very bright life, she was a really bright and interesting person with a great sense of humor. She was a doctor, a gynecologist. She started her practice in Siberia, but she dreamed of living in Kyiv and one day her dream came true.
She was also an examplary feminist. In te Soviet days this was quite strange. All her life she did everything herself. She raised her son (my dad) by herself, she earned money, saved people's lives, helped newborns to life, she got an apartment in Kyiv herself, bought a car for her son and she never got married, but she had many lovers.
I started researching te problem of dementia when my grandmother was diagnosed with it. We talked about her illness so that she does not lose touch with reality. I also involved my children in this process, which was very helpful.
Te burden of dementia
According to te WHO, in 2017 there were more than 50 million people with dementia worldwide. 7.7 million new cases are reported yearly, each one becomes a significant burden on families and health systems. Dementia causes te brain to degenerate and it is characterized by a persistent decrease in cognitive activity with a loss of previously acquired knowledge and practical skills. From te very first manifestations to severe forms, patients require care and social support.
Glimpses of her complex and interesting character are like pearls that you acquire through te hard work of constant communication. These moments dear to our hearts, te chronicle of te struggle against "te darkness" and visions from a past life: military childhood, interesting youth, medical practice in te cruel inhuman conditions of te Russian hinterland, are te essence of te project, which has become more than a project for me.
At a certain moment, I felt te need to photograph her in those moments when she talks about her visions. I have traced a clear relationship between memories, strong impressions and fears from my grandmother's past and painful visions in te present.
There is no happy ending in this struggle, te illness always wins, and this dread is visible. When phantasmagorias merge with reality it's always scary, and te only thing that can help is te attention of relatives and closeness.
Fundraiser to publish Granny
I think that such an interesting person and interesting life story is worth publishing in an art book. I found a book designer and publisher in Kyiv called RedZet. We did a lot of work on it already and now we have started a fundraiser to publish 300 copies of te first edition of te book «Granny».” Photographer Olena Morozova
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Photo: Skabertrang by Aftenskolen Fountain House at Den Sociale Blomsterhave, photo by Hans Vedsted.
We are very curious to hear how your experience of this year’s Copenhagen Photo Festival was? What did you like? What would you like more of and how can te festival best meet your expectations in te future?
As a festival that wants to evolve creatively and organically, meet our visitors in te best possible way and present new innovative exhibitions, emerging and established artists as well as present you with great events in a nice setting, we are always open to suggestions, constructive ideas and new partnerships.
It only takes 5 minutes!
We therefore hope you will use 5 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey about your festival experience. You can also fill it out, if you did not attend. Either way you may have ideas, comments or suggestions for new paths or partnerships for te festival that could be interesting for us.
If you participate you get te chance to win two tickets for next year's festival. We will find te winner 15 August.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Click here for te English survey
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Tine Bek’s Playful Materiality
“My work is very organic. It almost flows. I hope my works give you a sensation of feeling like you are there. That you can almost touch te sculpture or smell te food.”
Inspired by Karen Blixen’s short story Karneval and te tactility and sensuality of materials like foam and butter, te art photographer Tine Bek both explores three dimensionality, plays with fine art distinctions of materiality as well as our notions of sensory experiences in her photography.
Tine Bek was one of this year’s five exceptional FUTURES Nordic Talents who exhibited at te festival center, where she also shared her thoughts about her practice and process.
Bek recently published te photo book “Te Vulgarity of Being Three Dimensional” at Disko Bay publishers and from 24 June you can enjoy Bek’s playful works at te “Summer Crush” exhibition which opens at @ardenasbækgallery in central Copenhagen.
🎥 Sonia Tomegros Regalado /@noia_de_mon
Open Call for Te Meitar Award
Te Meitar Award for Excellence in Photography, a collaboration between PHOTO IS:RAEL and te Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund, will be awarded for te seventh time this year to a photographer whose works demonstrate excellence in te field of photography. This year Copenhagen Photo Festival's director Maja Dyrehauge is part of te jury which also includes photographer Roger Ballen, Curator of C/O Berlin Foundation Kathrin Schönegg, curator at V&A Museum Lisa Springer and a host of notable professionals from te world of photography.
This year’s winner will receive a $14,000 grant for te publication of a solo exhibition at PHOTO IS:RAEL International Photography Festival. Te winner will be announced in November 2022, and te exhibition will be shown in November 2023 at te 11th International Photography Festival.
During te course of that year, te winner will work on te exhibition together with PHOTO IS:RAEL’s Chief Curator. Of te works submitted, te panelists will select 20 finalists for a group exhibition at te International Photography Festival, which will take place in November 2022 in Tel Aviv.
Registration, submission and deadline
All submissions will be reviewed by a panel of leading international professionals who specialize in te field of photography, art and culture. Te judges will be expected to select a series or body of work which represents a distinct and compelling personal voice.
Submission deadline: July 18, 2022
Submission fee: Early registration 42$ (until July 1st), Late registration 54$
Photographs must be submitted via te contest website
For questions and additional information please contact: info@photoisrael.org
Dafna Meitar Nechmad, Director General, Te Zvi and Ofra Meitar Family Fund
Demet Yıldız Dinçer, Photography Department Manager, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
Ed Kashi, Photojournalist/Filmmaker with VII Photo Agency
Judith Guetta, Artist, Director of te Azrieli Gallery and te Yossi Nachmias Photo Gallery, Chair Department of
Photographic Communication, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem
Kathrin Schönegg, Curator of C/O Berlin Foundation
Lisa Springer, Curator of Touring Photography Exhibitions, V&A Museum, London
Ljudmila Stratimirović, Artistic Director and Founder of Kc Grad and Art Weekend Belgrade
Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Managing Director, Copenhagen Photo Festival
Rivka Saker, Chairman of Sotheby's Israel, Founder and board chair of ARTIS
Dr. Roger Ballen, Artist and Photographer
PHOTO IS:RAEL is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering dialogue via research and te highlighting of artistic and social issues through te language of photography.
A Big Heartfelt Thank You
Video: Sonia Tomegros Regalado / @noia_de_mon
We want to thank everyone who made Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022 so very special. We are so happy for every single visit to te festival venue and at all te festival partner venues across Copenhagen and Scania – we are grateful you were part of this year's festival!
And of course we also want to thank everyone who made this year’s Festival Center so very special and worth te visit: Our three international solo artists, Hien Hoang, Alexandra Rose Howland and Krista Svalbonas, Tofu Collective’s exhibition at te Space Frame with Chinese artists Luo Yang and Lin Zhipeng, DMJX’s presentation of three photo journalistic talents Jesper Houborg, Louise Herrche and Mads Frost, Odesa Photo Days’ two exhibitions Granny by Olena Morozova, te group exhibition Te Thin Line and te Norwegian curator Charlotte Wiig’s group exhibition of a host of female photographers called A Female Gaze and not least te five selected FUTURES Nordic Talents, Iben Gad, Tine Bek, Oscar Scott Carl, Inuuteq Storch and Luna Scales.
Thank you to our generous supporters and helping hands
We are also grateful for all te generous supporters financing te exhibitions: Københavns Kommune, Det Obelske Familie Fond, Creative Europe Programme, Nordic Counsel of Ministers and Værksted for fotografi as well as all te helpful and supportive volunteers and staff that make this festival physically appear at all.
Last but not least we want to thank everyone arranging events and exhibitions around Copenhagen and Scania from te many festival partner venues, te gallery walks and artist talks to DJ sets, sound and image equipment people and all te people engaging with te amazing world of contemporary photography – we genuinely appreciate your flexibility, engagement, good work and happy spirits – we love to make this festival with you!
Thank You! Click here to see all partners and supporters!
Meet Krista Svalbonas – solo artist 2022 under te Framing Vision category
"I think there's an importance to this work right now, especially since history is repeating. We are seeing te war in Ukraine, which kinds of mirrors this story as well."⁠
Te Baltic-American artist Krista Svalbonas is te woman behind te exhibition "Displacement" which won this year's open-call in te category Framing Vision and which is te amazing, thought provoking and scarily relevant result of an intensive research process into te history of her family's Baltic roots. Her parents fled te Russian regime after World War II and Svalbonas project excavates this history.⁠
We were happy to have te chance to meet and interview Krista when she was visiting te festival for te install and opening last weekend. ⁠
Svalbonas' laser-cut photographs can be experienced at te festival until this Sunday, so don't hesitate to stop by!⁠
Video credit: Sonia Tomegros Regalado
by Copenhagen Photo Festival
Meet Alexandra Rose Howland – solo artist 2022 under te Framing Society category
"With my work I'm trying to relook at things that we've already seen before, and to rephotograph them in a way that challenges our perspective and challenges te narrative that we've already formed in our minds about these locations."⁠
Alexandra Rose Howland (US/UK) has spent te last decade living in te Middle East. Throughout this time, Howland became aware that what a foreigner views and photographs does not always embody te lived reality of locals, and Howland began asking to download first-person accounts; from selfies to family photos, to Snapchats. Te resulting Leave and Let Us Go is an intimate and multi-dimensional portrait of Irak and Iraqis that returns te narrative power of an often-misunderstood country to its own citizens.⁠
We were happy to have te chance to meet and interview Alexandra when she was visiting te festival for te install and opening. You can experience Alexandra's work at te festival until tomorrow evening, so don't hesitate to stop by te Festival Center this weekend!⁠
Video credit: Sonia Tomegros Regalado
by Copenhagen Photo Festival
Meet Hien Hoang - solo artist 2022 under te Framing Identity category
"I want to talk about te clichés and stereotypes about Asian people in te West using food as te output. I think food is a very powerful medium, and it says a lot about our country, our heritage, our identity, our memories."
Meet Hien Hoang! Te artist behind te Festival Center exhibition 'Asia Bistro – Made in Rice'⁠.
Te Vietnamese artist won our open call in te Framing Identity category this year with her project. ⁠We were very happy to have her here for te opening of te exhibition at Refshaleøen last week. Here she gives an introduction to herself and her amazing exhibition, work and practice!⁠
Hien's exhibition is open until June 12 at te Festival Center.
Video credit: Sonia Tomegros Regalado
by Copenhagen Photo Festival
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