Joakim Eskildsen

Joakim Eskildsen ( [ jɔɑkɪm ɛskɪldsən ]; born December 22, 1971 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish photo artist and photographer.

Location

Eskildsen was in Copenhagen pupils Hoffotografin Rigmor Mydtskov and went to Helsinki in 1994 to learn the craft of making photographic picture books at the local College of Art and Design at Pentti Sammallahti. He is with exhibitions in Europe ( Germany, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain), in China, in Florida, in South Korea and emerged in South Africa.

Works

The Roma Journeys

Eskildsen has with writer Cia Rinne in the years 2000 to 2006 in seven European countries, especially East of the Roma and visited ethnic groups in India who may be related to the Roma. Also on the basis of several weeks living together with the person in question is from the work created The Roma Journeys, which is by its text and more than 200 epic portraits and environmental studies insight into the cosmos of Roma. The photographs of the plant are used as the soulful creations of an artist praised, in the atmosphere penetrates aware of the spot and tried to understand everyday life and lifestyle of the people he portrayed.

Chronological Overview

• Nordic Signs (1995)
• Meknes ( 1997)
• Traer (1997)
• Al - Madina ( with Pentti Sammallahti and Kristoffer Albrecht, 2002)
• The Roma Journeys: Hungary - India - Greece - Romania - France - Russia - Finland. Text: Cia Rinne. Preface: Günter Grass. Steidl, Göttingen 2007

Awards

• 2000: Photo- Eye Books & Print Annual Award ( Best Foreign Title, for iChickenMoon )
• 2008: Amilcare Ponchielli - Prize ( for The Roma Journeys )
• 2009: German Photo Book Prize (Gold, for The Roma Journeys )
• 2009: Award of the Otto - Pankok Foundation, ( for The Roma Journeys )
• 2009: David Octavius ​​Hill Medal, ( by the German Photographic Academy, for The Roma Journeys )