The artists nominated by
For this year's FUTURES, Copenhagen Photo Festival offered its annual open talent call exclusively for lens-based artists and photographers in the Nordic region who were born in or after 1984. They also had to have been educated within the field of photography and art, or have a CV which presented continual professional experience in the field within the last 3 years. The festival’s committee – comprising: Patricia Breinholm Bertram, Curator and Head of Communications at Martin Asbæk Gallery; Stinus Duch, publisher and founder of Disko Bay Books; Søren Pagter, Head of Photojournalism at Danish School of Media and Journalism/DMJX,; and Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Managing Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival – prioritized a well-balanced selection, spanning a wide variety of lens-based practice from documentary or anthropological approaches to conceptual and performance-based art.
Barbara Marstrand (b. 1994) has been selected for her project Still Life of Teenagers which playfully portrays the lives of Danish youth. Approaching photography with a curiosity about different groups of people, Marstrand offers a unique insight into different life experiences, combining her artistic practice and keen eye with sociological methods.
Emma Sarpaniemi (b.1993), based in Helsinki, has been selected for her project Two Ways to Carry a Cauliflower because of her refreshingly unique, satiric and at the same time intimate way of exploring identity. Through both performative and satirical self portraits, Sarpaniemi challenges traditional femininity and gender roles.
Frederik Danielsen (b. 1995) has been selected for his work revolving around the myths of the Danish island Als, where the artist himself grew up. Danielsen evokes the viewer's curiosity for these local places and their stories by applying a photographic approach that combines documentary photography and conceptual art, using both his own photographs as well as found material from local archives.
Jenni Toivonen (b. 1993) based in Helsinki, has been selected for her project Are We There - a performative journey to the old village Penedo where her grandparents were set to build an utopian community in the tropics. As it unfolds, the project becomes an investigation into migration, memory and history.
Mathias Eis (b. 1995) has been selected for his long-term project Are we nearly there yet?, which explores life at the 148 rest stops along the Danish highway. Although most Danish people have visited at least one of these stops, few attach any value to them, so Eis transforms these otherwise bland locations into places worth seeing.
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