The Fogtdal Photographers Awards (Danish

Danish language

Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...

: Fogtdal's Fotografpris) is the largest awards programme dedicated specifically to Danish photography

Photography in Denmark

Photography in Denmark has developed from strong participation and interest in the very beginnings of the art in 1839 to the success of a considerable number of Danes in the world of photography today...

. It was established in 2004 by Danish publisher Per Fogtdal. The awards programme consists of an Honarary Award, rewarded with DKK

Danish krone

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 250,000, and five other awards, each rewarded with a travel grant of DKK 50,000. Every year the winners are presented in an exhibition at Fotografisk Center

Fotografisk Center

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 in Copenhagen

Copenhagen

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Fogtdal Honorary Award laureates

Year	Laureate
2009	Jacob Holdt Jacob Holdt Jacob Holdt is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, American Pictures, gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes....
2008	Morten Bo Morten Bo Morten Bo , is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work with a social impact. His 15 travelling exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s proved quite controversial. In the 1980s, he turned to more abstract photography with lines, contours and contrasts of light and shade...
2007	Kirsten Klein Kirsten Klein Kirsten Klein is a Danish photographer who since the mid-1970s has lived on the island of Mors. She has become one of Denmark's foremost landscape photographers, developing a highly characteristic, somewhat melancholic style, frequently achieved by employing older photographic techniques.-Early...
2006	Krass Clement Krass Clement Krass Clement Kay Christensen is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work. He graduated as a film director in Copenhagen but soon turned to still photography, publishing his first book Skygger af øjeblikke in 1978. He has since become an active documentary photographer,...
2005	Keld Helmer-Petersen Keld Helmer-Petersen Keld Helmer-Petersen is a Danish photographer who achieved his international breakthrough in 1948 when he published 122 Farvefotografier/122 Colour Photographs, a collection of experiments with shapes inspired by Albert Renger-Patzsch and the poetic realism of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement...
2004	Viggo Rivad Viggo Rivad Viggo Rivad is a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946 and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called essay approach resulting in series of related photographs such as Et farvel and Laurits...

2009

In 2009 the five winners were:

• Mads Gamdrup
• Tove Kurtzweil
• Finn Larsen
• Trine Søndergaard / Nicolai Howalt
• Signe Vad

2008

In 2008 the five winners were:

• Liv Carlé Mortensen
• Torben Eskerod
• Peter Funch
• Kajsa Gullberg/Fryd Frydendahl
• Camilla Holmgren