Inspiration and brainstorming
If I were to summarise the questions I get asked about my photography, “Where do you get your ideas from?” would probably be top of the list. It’s also the most difficult one to answer. The easiest explanation would probably be to describe the way I work to achieve inspiration and sustain the resultant ideas. I don’t [...]
It’s all lights and makeup
That’s what I tell people when they are occasionally shocked by some of my creative images of gruesome subjects. And that is actually one of the aspects of photography that is the most fun: How important light is for the final image. To move a lamp or turn it off can change the message of a picture [...]
Absurd banalities
Stock photos is essentially about trivialities. Pictures of perfectly ordinary things in setups designed to give the impression of having been taken directly out of everyday life. Therefore the challenge is to get setups to look real while simultaneously creating an image which is photographically appealing – that is to say, not like anything taken with a [...]
Capturing reality
With the number of friends I have among photographers, I often get the chance to discuss the more philosophical aspects of photography. Photo sites, both Danish and foreign, bulging with pictures that fall under the headings of street photography and documentaries, and it is difficult to find a site without at least one picture from a [...]
Warrior 2012
Most of the people who work with me in the photo studio know that since last autumn I have been working on my next project: Warrior 2012. The project is a story in pictures and poetry about man and the inner warrior – from 2012 to 2012. From the Bronze Age warriors and the medieval crusaders [...]
High speed photography
I often forget how much fun it is to do high speed photography – taking photos at a very high shutter speed. It’s actually just as funny as it is easy. It just takes a reasonable SLR camera and sufficient light. A simple flash can do it as long as your flash supports high speed [...]
Stamina
Following up on my previous post I want to write a few words on being lonely. Doing creative work, be it poetry, novels, paintings or photography, is a lonely road to follow. You can have admirers, you can have girlfriends supporting you and friends accepting that you’re a little strange, but you don’t have anyone [...]
Trust yourself
More than two years have passed since I decided it was time that I did something serious about my passion for photography. I decided that I wanted to show my work for a wider audience, and that I would make an attempt to do commercial photography – stock photography. I invested a large amount of [...]
