I love photography and I absolutely love extending my arm with my camera.

Photography is a very diverse profession and I believe that the most significant technique to me is to keep it simple, very much along the lines of John Szarkowski thoughts in “The Photographer’s Eye”. Photography is not really a craft, but more a love for the subjects around me and the urge to depict and tell the stories.

In 2006 I bought a DSLR, because of my infatuation with concert photography and the insufficiency of the camera I owned at the time. Concert photography is my starting grounds as a photographer, which later has made a lot of sense to me, because concerts are a wonderful playground for a young photographer to understand his equipment and apply different techniques. I find that concerts somehow can represent real life situations, in the sense that there are many unexpected movements to foresee and capture and vantage points to choose. It’s an hour of people on stage presenting themselves and an hour for the photographer to depict that. I love its combination of complexity and simplicity. It is a place for improvisation and fun.

I find unique personalities intriguing, not only in people, but in animals too. And perhaps most importantly: capturing it. I think all living beings have a personality and it is my job as a photographer to interpret it and catch it on film. My love and fascination for animals is centered around their limited use of emotions. They’re different than people, who set themselves aside from animals with the additional secondary emotions and the many many shades in between – complexity.

Although I haven’t had the chance to spend the same amount of time with all the living beings  I have taken photos of, I find that I have captured a special glow – a soul – in their photos, because I aim for it and wouldn’t consider the photo a success unless it does.

When I am taking photos of people my primary aim is to get pass people’s own idea of how they look and capture the true unmasked “them” – to be invited behind “the mask” and capture the person for who he/she really is success to me.

The location is equally as important to me, because it frames our subject with a context and tell the part of the story that you can’t read by only looking at the person on a monochrome background, except when you have preceding familiarity with the person. Some photos need subtlety and others needs a little extra, which is why the photographer sometimes uses implicit persuasion to tell a story. This is partially what I find signifies the photographers personal style – his or her view on the world and the way they find it best depicted.

Imagine a ragged place that you walk pass every day, at night this place transforms into a warmer and more intense place, because of the luminance. This is one of my favorite things to capture and usually with long shutter. I never really search out these locations, because they usually are suddenly there.

Over the last 2-3 years I have been so fortunate to take my skills beyond the borders of Denmark. Not only does it offer me perspective as a person, but it also broadens and defines my idea of beauty worthy of being captured. When photographing places in nature I especially find that HDR underlines the beauty of a place by adding contrast. When the place I visit is widely known, I find that I can go closer to the detail and only show a fragment without changing the subject matter.

Robert Cava once said “If your pictures aren’t good, you’re not close enough”, which I have come to use as words of wisdom in all of my work, often finding myself wanting to see how close I can get to the subject or object – literally.