(Photo: Asger Ladefoged)
It is now three years since Russia attacked Ukraine. Three years ago, on 24 February 2022, Russian military moved across the neighboring country's borders and the 'full-scale war' began. How do you get visual attention for a war that has lasted over three years in a media landscape where everyone is fighting for attention? Should you try to depict war in a different way than the classic 'war photography', and how can you do that?
War threatening condition
Increasingly since February 2022, we in Denmark have begun to see ourselves as a country 'in the shadow of war': Everyone now knows the word 'prepping', the prime minister's New Year's speech was full of serious words, and the word 'war tax' has entered the political agenda. If the prime minister calls for increased awareness that we live in a new war-threatening state, how can photography show and convey this 'new' state? How do you photograph the implications of war? Can you photograph cyber war?
Photojournalist at Berlingske Asger Ladefoged, who has covered the war in Ukraine several times since 2016, and who has also covered the war against the Islamic State from both Syria and Iraq, and Anders Birger, socially committed documentary photographer and teacher, who works with new ways of using photography both in his own projects and through his teaching, participate in this panel discussion about war photography as a genre and about new approaches to the genre. Professor of photography studies from the University of Copenhagen and Nordic Humanities Center Mette Sandbye will moderate the conversation.
The event is open to everyone and takes place at the Royal Library, Copenhagen. (Karen Blixen Hall, Diamanten, 1st floor)
- Organizer: Nordic Humanities Center i samarbejde med Det Kongelige Bibliotek
- Address: Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1, 1221 København K
- Contact Email: Sandbye@hum.ku.dk
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