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U P C O M I N G - E X H I B I T I O N S : Spring 2010 March 12 - April 25 Part of Fotofest Reception with the artists Tuesday March 16, 6pm - 8pm Unintended Sculptures
Henrik Saxgren was born in Randers, Denmark in 1953. Although professionally trained as an advertising photographer, he switched to photojournalism in 1979, when he co-founded the collective photo agency 2Maj, based in Copenhagen. With 2Maj as his base he worked as an independent photojournalist up to 1995, when the agency was dissolved. From 1995 to 2000 he constantly went to Nicaragua, only back in Denmark to earn money to finance his work on the book, Solomons House, which was published by Aperture in the United States in 2000. After the accomplishment of this very classic b&w documentary book he found it was time for a change. In 2000/2001 he settled for some months in Ecuador and did a series of large format colour landscapes. After 9/11 he settled one month in Gaza with the same large format camera and did the exhibition: Landscapes of War. In 2006 he finished four years work on the project, “War & Love - immigration into the Nordic countries”, where he did one portrait (and text) of 80 immigrants/ families of different nationalities, who had settled in one of the Nordic countries. That project was published in Denmark and Sweden. September 20. he opened the exhibition ‘Unintended Sculptures’ at The National Museum of Photography and at Galerie Asbæk in Copenhagen. The project was published by German publisher, Hatje Cantz with the same title.
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