Home Works
I started photographing when I was 14 years old – now I am 40. During the first years, I photographed around the house, the fields, and the forest. At the beginning, it was a certain light or weather condition that inspired me and made me eager to go out. Since then , I have moved away from the village, and started to photograph on different journeys. The firsts works were from Scandinavia, Portugal, and then all around Europe, India and Africa.
At some point, my interest went back to the beginnings, and to the things that had so much inspired me at first. I felt it was a relief to photograph in the immediate surroundings, rediscovering what had made me so interested in photography – an artistic homecoming as it were. It coincided with the birth of my son, and a little later, my daughter. My family needed a good place to live, the search took us to six different homes – in Finland, Denmark and Germany.
The pictures on display here are from three different homes in Denmark.
Joakim Eskildsen, August 17th 2012
EXHIBITION
New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School
January 24 – April 2013
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Avenue, 38th Street
New York NY 10016
USA
