Photo: Astrid Dalum

The Newly Graduated Photojournalist Astrid Dalum Wins Scanpix Award

The Scanpix Award honors the best graduate project from the photo journalistic program at The Danish School of Media and Journalism in Aarhus.

Graduate Astrid Dalum…

Photo: Andreas Gursky, courtesy of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

The world champion of the photography’s equivalent to extreme sports is visiting Denmark.

German Andreas Gursky, who last year set the record, by selling the photo Rhine II for…

Photo: Mette Bersang

When the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull in 2010 filled the sky over Europe with volcanic ashes, it soon became an eyeopener for Danish Mette Bersang and British Kathrine Marquis, when they realized the effect of the lack…

Photo: Julie Edel Hardenberg and Lars Frederik Andersen

From November 25th 2011, the Greenlandic artist Julie Edel Hardenberg is showing an exhibition about Western stereotypes with a Greenlandic point of view.

In a time where the…

Denmark’s first multicultural street photo exhibition are now being published as a book.

The windows of the stores on Nørrebrogade were transformed into the longest photo gallery in Denmark, when the residents of Nørrebro exhibited their own pictures of the daily life in one of the most exposed neighborhoods in Copenhagen, during Copenhagen Photo Festival 2011.

The photographers Joachim Ladefoged and Jacob Holdt and gallery owner Martin Asbæk selected the pictures for the exhibition, which now in the shape of a book appear as an authentic and multicultural portrait of this diverse part of town.

Photo: Lasse Seidelin Bendtsen

Tonight the visitors at this year’s Culture Night will be able to dig into art – and dirt.

For tonight’s Culture Night, Museum of Copenhagen has arranged a variety of different and exciting events for…

Photo: Peter Dench from the series “England Uncensored”.

During this year’s Culture Night, the photo collective 16tyve will be showing photos from all around the world.

With a mixture of commercial photographers and photojournalists, the photographers at 16tyve…

Photo: Jodi Bieber, South Africa, Institute for Artist Management/Goodman Gallery for Time magazine

The world’s best press photos are once again visiting Denmark.

Since 1955, the press photo’s equivalent to the Olympics has grown bigger and bigger, and…

Photo: Eva Koch from the series “June’s Lace”, courtesy of Martin Asbæk Gallery

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Photo: Jacob Aue Sobol

The Danish Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol will until Sunday be exhibiting at Fotografisk Center with the highly acclaimed exhibition “Stories”.

Jacob Aue Sobol is known for his series of black and white documentary…

Photo: Gregory Crewdson, from the series “Beneath the Roses”, 2005/2006

In the series “Beneath the Roses”, photographer Gregory Crewdson stages the idyllic American suburb with a sense of melancholic tranquility.

The National Museum of Photography is…

Photo: Klaus Thymann from the series “Cities: Visionary Places”

Multiplicity and tolerance are the keywords behind photographer Klaus Thymann’s exhibition about the Danish freetown Christiania – a city within a city.

With a focus on the anarchistic architecture…

Photo: Nicolai Howalt, Endings #2, 2011, c-print, 210 x 180 cm., edition of 5, Courtesy Martin Asbæk Gallery

In the exhibition Endings, the Danish photographer Nicolai Howalt examines society’s view on death anno 2011.

Through a study of…

On Friday Carlsberg’s Ny Tap opens its doors for the group exhibition Face, Head and Shoulders. The exhibitions shows 26 young, international photographers’ interpretation of portrait photography.

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Copenhagen Photo Festival thanks for a successfull 2011. We’ll return June 7-17 2012. In the meanwhile, the Copenhagen Photo Festival page will communicate information on Danish and international photo exhibitions and events throughout the year.

The photojournalist patiently waits for the right moment and the perfect composition, while the art photographer plans and stages his work down to the smallest detail.

It is through the fresh eyes of Maja Nydal Eriksen and Simone Lilmoes that new light is thrown on the newest part of Copenhagen; Ørestaden.

Photo: Carlos Luján

Here and Now

The exhibition takes you on a journey to Spain. One photographer takes you to bullfighting, another one shows you the typical Spanish woman or invites you to visit the family …

14 Spanish…

We’re back and ready to take over the streets of Copenhagen with an amazing selection of Danish and international photography. Copenhagen Photo Festival