Fotografisk Center is an exhibition space in

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, dedicated to international and Danish

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. Since 1 January 2016 it has been based in the Copenhagen Meat Packing District (Det Brune Kødbyen) at Staldgade 16, 1799 Copenhagen V.

History

The Fotografisk Centre was established in 1996 by the photographer

Lars Schwander Lars Schwander (born 15 December 1957) is a Danish photographer and gallerist. As a photographer he is most known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996 he founded Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, an exhibition space for art photogra ...

. It was originally based in the ground floor of

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's building on

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When the building closed for a major refurbishment in mid-2008, the centre moved to a temporary address on

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. Faced with years of disturbance due to the upcoming construction of a station on the new

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of the

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, it was decided not to return to Gammel Strand after the renovation but instead to look for new and larger premises. On 1 February 2011 the gallery re-opened in

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, a former bottling plant in the Carlsberg area,

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's which is under redevelopment into a new district and today houses a growing cluster of cultural institutions and businesses.

Exhibitions

A full range of fine art photography is shown, with equal emphasis on both classical and contemporary photography by international artists as well as Danes. An annual exhibition presents the winners of the

Fogtdal Photographers Award The Fogtdal Photographers Awards (Danish: Fogtdals Fotografpriser) is the largest awards programme dedicated specifically to Danish photography. It was established in 2004 by Danish publisher Palle Fogtdal. The awards programme consists of an Hono ...

s. Over the years, exhibitions have presented the works of

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Gisèle Freund Gisèle Freund (born ''Gisela Freund''; 19 December 1908 in Schöneberg District, Berlin 31 March 2000 in Paris) was a German-born French photographer and photojournalist, famous for her documentary photography and portraits of writers and artis ...

Alfred Guzzetti Alfred Guzzetti (born 1942) is a maker of documentary and experimental films and tapes. His work has been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Margaret Mead Festival, and other festivals in London, Rotterdam, Germany, Spain and France, as well ...

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech people, Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bre ...

, Henri Lartique,

Sally Mann Sally Mann HonFRPS (born Sally Turner Munger; May 1, 1951) is an American photographer who has made large format black and white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death. Early life and e ...

Duane Michals Duane Michals ( "Michaels"; born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. Education and career Michals's interest in ar ...

Inge Morath Ingeborg Hermine Morath (; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955. Morath was the ...

Georg Oddner Georg Oddner (17 October 1923 – 7 October 2007) was one of Sweden's greatest photographers from the 20th century. Oddner was a jazz musician and studying advertising in the 1940s when he first came into contact with photography through Joh ...

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

Man Ray Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, although his t ...

Viggo Rivad Viggo Reinholdt Rivad (3 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946, and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called "essay approach", r ...

Bruce Gilden Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the Europea ...

and many more.

Young Danish Photography

The Fotografisk Center's exhibition activities include an annually recurrent exhibition entitled Young Danish Photography, presenting a selection of emerging photographers. The exhibitions are accompanied by the publication of a book which documents the exhibitions.

Other facilities

The center also includes a well stocked bookstore that specializes in photography. It features major international publications, limited edition artists books as well as many of its own publications. Fotografisk Center has also established The Digital Room, a well equipped digital darkroom and workshop available to artists.

Publications

The Fotografisk Center publications extend beyond catalogues for its exhibitions with titles such as ''Among Danish Jews'' and ''Marianne Engberg: Photographs'', both for the

Danish National Museum The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a short distance from Strøget ...

References

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