Joakim Eskildsen (born 1971) is a Danish art photographer.

Career as a photographer

Eskildsen born 1971 in

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. He was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with

Pentti Sammallahti Pentti Sammallahti (born 1950 in Helsinki) is a Finnish photographer. He is the only brother of Finnish linguist Pekka Sammallahti Pekka Lars Kalervo Sammallahti ( smn, Sevtil-Piäkká, May 21, 1947 in Helsinki) is a professor of Sami languages ...

at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He lives near Copenhagen and has shown some of his works in Europe (including Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, England, Italy), China, and South Africa. From 2000-2006, together with the writer

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, Eskildsen sought out

Romani Romani may refer to: Ethnicities * Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia ** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule * Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...

in various (mainly Eastern European) countries and other ethnic groups in India who are possibly related to the Roma. The fruits of this work have found their way into the book ''The Roma Journeys'', which delivers insight into the life of the Roma by its text and more than 200 photographs.

Awards

* Photo-Eye Books & Print Annual Award, 2000 (Best Foreign Title, for ''iChickenMoon'')Eskildsen's CV
at the Helsinki School. Accessed 20 November 2010. * Amilcare Ponchielli Prize, 2008 * Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, 2009 (Gold, for ''The Roma Journeys'')Uli Eberhardt,
Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2009: Lesefutter für Fotofans
", Fokussiert.com, 6 November 2008. Accessed 20 November 2010. * Prize of the Otto Pankok Foundation, 2009 (for ''The Roma Journeys'') *

David Octavius Hill Medal The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist David Octavius Hill, famous for his Hill & Adamson calotypes, most of which were devel ...

, 2009 (by the

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)

Publications

* ''Nordtegn / Nordic Signs.'' Opus 29. Helsinki: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu, Valokuvataiteen laitos, 1995. . * ''Meknès'' (1997) * ''Traer'' (1997) * ''Blue Tide: A True Story / Maré Azul: uma história verdadeira.'' Opus 33. Helsinki: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu, Valokuvataiteen laitos, 1997. . With Cia Rinne. * ''A Voyage to iChickenMoon.'' Suomen valokuvataiteen museon julkaisuja, 7. Helsinki: Suomen Valokuvataineen Museo (Finnish Museum of Photography), 1999. . Includes CD. With Cia Rinne and Sebastian Eskildsen. "Part of Shuttle 99, a Nordic-South African cultural exchange"; "Opus 38". * ''al-Madina'' (with Pentti Sammallahti and

Kristoffer Albrecht Christopher is the English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or '' Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Christ" or "Anointed", and φέρει� ...

, 2002) * ''The Roma Journeys.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. . Text: Cia Rinne. Preface:

Günter Grass Günter Wilhelm Grass (born Graß; ; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. He was born in the Free City of Da ...

. ** ''Roma-rejserne.'' Copenhagen: Kunsthallen Nikolaj, 2007. ** ''Die Romareisen.'' Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. .

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eskildsen, Joakim 1971 births 21st-century Danish photographers Danish photographers Living people Photographers from Copenhagen