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Joakim Eskildsen
Karlbergvägen 9
02400 Kyrkslätt
Finland
fax/phone +358-9-2216 330
mobile phone +358 442871030
www.joakimeskildsen.com
CV Joakim Eskildsen
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Fireworks, 1991
Nordic Signs
87 x 73 cm
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The Broken Castle, 1997
Bluetide
140 x 60 cm
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The Fire, 1999
iChickenMoon
75 x 60 cm
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Hand I, 2001
Requiem
127 x 160 cm |
Untitlet, The Roma Journyes, 2006
size of the work not jet decided |
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Orientation
My interest for photography started when I was fourteen years old. My
brother had learned to print pictures at school, and we both tried to
make it work. The pictures were grey and blurred, but still, I felt
that it was exceptional, and from this day on I knew that I wanted to
be a photographer.
I have grown up in the countryside, and nature has always been my
great interest. My grandmother lived in a house that was over two
hundred years old. She always told stories about her childhood in
Sweden. Her garden was an adventure in itself, and there was always a
lot to do - chopping wood, picking apples, flowers, strawberries,
digging up potatoes, cutting trees, painting the house. My
grandmother got water from a well, and a telephone very late. At her
house, everything was understandable. The fire gave warmth, the house
gave a shelter, and the sky gave sun and rain.
After school, I became an apprentice at the Royal Court’s
photographer Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen. Here, we made portraits
of famous persons in Denmark, and I learned that photography consists
of a lot of different handicrafts. I continued to make my own
pictures, and started travelling in the North. When I had finished
the education after four and a half years, I did not know anything
else than that I had to continue working with my own photography.
A turning point was Ritva Kovalainen’s exhibition in Copenhagen in
February 1993. Here, for the first time, I saw Finnish photography.
Apart from Ritva Kovalainen’s own pictures I saw books and
portfolios by Jyrki Parantainen, Jorma Puranen, Ismo Hölttö, Pentti
Sammallahti, Kristoffer Albrecht and Pekka Turunen.
All this Finnish photography was overwhelming to me. In Denmark, I
only knew few photographers to which I felt related, and suddenly I
realized there was a whole crowd of photographers that I felt
connected to. I was immediately convinced that I had to move to
Finland. A few weeks later I travelled to Helsinki, went to see Ritva
Kova-lainen, and applied to the University of Art and Design to make
the book “Nordic Signs”. Since then I have been living in Finland.
To me, it is essential to believe; in a better world, in mankind, and
in that there is a sense with it all. There are so many problems in
the world nowadays - poverty, illness, pollution, environmental
disasters, war - that it requires discipline to be an optimist. I try
to collect photographs of a world that I can believe in, which gives
me hope, and moments of magic.
The people I photograph are usually persons whom I admire, and from
which I wish to learn something. I mostly try to live with the people
for longer periods of time in order to get a better understanding of
everything, and to be able to photograph more peacefully. Usually, I
am working closely together with writer Cia Rinne who is very gifted
with languages. Without this cooperation it would be impossible for
me to live and communicate with the people I photograph.
Photography is a form of still point in my life from that I
orientate. Usually, I am interested in a specific matter. During the
last three years, I have been working on “Drom si sukar”, a
project on the Roma. Since I started photographing, certain issues
have occurred. One important of these is human existence in relation
to nature.
This exhibition map consists of works that have been important points
of orientation to me.
Joakim Eskildsen december 2002
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