Elisabeth Ohlson
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Sweden
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photographer and an artist. In her works she often photographs representatives of sexual minorities.
Ohlson, a lesbian
Lesbian
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, is most famous for her exhibition Ecce homo
Ecce Homo (exhibition)
Ecce Homo is a controversial exhibition of 12 photographs of different biblical situations, in modern surroundings, taken by the Swedish photographer Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin. The first vernissage of the exhibition was in Stockholm, July 1998 and attracted a lot of attention. As the exhibition was...
which portrayed Jesus
Jesus
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among homosexuals
Homosexuality
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and transvestites. The scenes were modern versions of stories of the New Testament
New Testament
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, such as Jesus riding a bicycle in a gay parade like in the Triumphal entry
Palm Sunday
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he rode to town with a donkey. With her works, Ohlson has wanted to remind people that Jesus worked with and helped the outcasts of the society. She had the idea when one of her friends died of AIDS
AIDS
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in the early 1990s.
The first Ecce homo exhibition was held in Stockholm
Stockholm
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in 1998. Later an exhibition was held in the Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral
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which the archbishop
Archbishop of Uppsala
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K. G. Hammar
K. G. Hammar
thumb|K. G. HammarKarl Gustav Hilding Hammar , commonly referred to as K. G. Hammar, is a Swedish clergyman. He was Archbishop of Uppsala, head of the Church of Sweden, from 1997 to 2006...
had approved of. Later Ecce homo has toured around the world.
She once made an exhibition called "Taear" that involved two German men farming using their penises.