About
Danish award winning photographer, with over 20 years of professional experience.
I value quality, craftsmanship and authenticity.
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Here is my story
After receiving a degree as certified photographer from Media College Denmark, I moved to New York City.
My dream of living and working in New York City for a while became reality. Alongside assignments for magazines, I developed my fine art photography further and participated in the group show: " Life of The City " in Manhattans Museum of Modern Art.
To learn more about the craft and business, I also worked as freelance assistant for a few iconic photographers:
Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair.
Albert Watson for Yahoo Magazine, Zara and Paramount Pictures.
Brigitte Lacombe for Vogue, New York Times Magazine, Time, HBO and Rolex.
These really good people and down to earth photographers, showed me faith and trust to work as one of their assistants on portrait sessions all over the United States and great locations in Europe, with a wide range of talented people:
Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Robert de Niro, Julianne Moore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Yo-Yo Ma, Jennifer Connelly, Calvin Klein,
Martin Scorsese, Daniel Day Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Jessica Lange, Tom Wilkinson, Mike Nichols, Warren Beatty, Prince,
Sophie Marceau, Cameron Diaz, Robert Altman, Katia and Marielle Labèque, among many others.
I was even cleared by the Secret Service in order to do my job as assistant on a Vogue portrait session of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, photographed by Brigitte Lacombe. This was in Plains, Georgia - the hometown of former President Jimmy Carter.
All in all it was hard work and extremely rewarding to be working on the elite level in the industry.
I returned to Denmark after nearly 3 years in New York City. On the way I stopped in Paris for 6 months.
Alongside commissions for Max France and others, I also worked with Ellen von Unwerth for Guess, I.D and Vogue Italia.
Since then, I´ve been based in Denmark, working on art projects and commissions as photographer.
The combined result is a long list of commercial, editorial and fine art references with a large number of international awards.
Selected References
Adidas · Dissing + Weitling · Flos · Swarovski · Pentagram · Lego · Newsweek · SHL · Amnesty
Weekendavisen · Geo Italia · Alexander Mann Solutions · Gyldendal · Hoffmann und Campe · Businessweek
Lilienhoff · Novozymes · The Royal Danish Theatre · Gaffa · Scientific American · L'Express Style · Max France
Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin · New Scientist · Harper Collins · Novo Nordisk · Mattel · El País
Portraits
Over the years I have done more than 1000 portraits, including:
Brett Anderson · Wilma Giglio · Carl Henning-Pedersen · Nikolaj Hübbe · J'aime Crandall · Matt Johnson · Jørgen Leth
Danica Curcic · Keith Warner · Astrid Elbo · Morten Hee Andersen · Poul-Erik Høyer · Dicte · Rasmus Henning
Awards & Nominations
I´m honored to have received the Grand Prize of American Photographic Artists, among many awards and nominations:
Cannes Lions · AOP · IPA · Prix de la Photographie Paris · Epica · Aurora · Creative Circle Award
Exhibition References ( group shows )
Museum of Modern Art, New York City · Association of Photographers, London · McCulloch Gallery, Melbourne
Danish Design Center, Copenhagen · Farmani Gallery, New York City · Oliver Gordon Gallery, Toronto
