Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

 art photographer

Fine art photography

Fine art photography refers to photographs that are created in accordance with the creative vision of the photographer as artist. Fine art photography stands in contrast to photojournalism, which provides a visual account for news events, and commercial photography, the primary focus of which is to...

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Career as a photographer

Eskildsen was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov

Rigmor Mydtskov

Rigmor Mydtskov was a Danish court photographer who is remembered for her portraits of artists performing in Danish theatres but especially for her many portraits of Queen Margrethe and other members of the Danish royal family....

 in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti

Pentti Sammallahti

Pentti Sammallahti is a Finnish photographer. He is the only brother of Finnish linguist Pekka Sammallahti.He taught at the Art and Design University in Helsinki for 17 years. In 1991 he was given a twenty-year grant by the Finnish government.-References:...

 at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He lives near Copenhagen and has shown some of his works in Europe (including Germany, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, France, England, Italy), China, and South Africa.

From 2000-2006, together with the writer Cia Rinne, Eskildsen sought out Roma in various (mainly Eastern European) countries and other ethnic groups in India who are possibly related to the Roma. The fruits of this work have found their way into the book The Roma Journeys, which delivers insight into the life of the Roma by its text and more than 200 photographs.

Awards

• Photo-Eye Books & Print Annual Award, 2000 (Best Foreign Title, for iChickenMoon)
• Amilcare Ponchielli Prize, 2008
• Deutscher Fotobuchpreis
  Deutscher Fotobuchpreis
  The Deutscher Fotobuchpreis or German Photobook Prize is an annual group of awards made by a selected jury, with the purpose of celebrating and honoring exemplary projects in the field of visual-led book publishing originated in Germany...
  
  , 2009 (Gold, for The Roma Journeys)
• Prize of the Otto Pankok Foundation, 2009 (for The Roma Journeys)
• David Octavius Hill Medal
  David Octavius Hill Medal
  The David Octavius Hill Medal is a prize in photography established in 1955, by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. It is named in honor of the Scottish artist David Octavius Hill.-Recipients:...
  
  , 2009 (by the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie)

Books

• Nordtegn / Nordic Signs. Opus 29. Helsinki: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu, Valokuvataiteen laitos, 1995. ISBN 952-90-9465-9.
• Meknès (1997)
• Traer (1997)
• Blue Tide: A True Story / Maré Azul: uma história verdadeira. Opus 33. Helsinki: Taideteollinen Korkeakoulu, Valokuvataiteen laitos, 1997. ISBN 9529088140. With Cia Rinne.
• A Voyage to iChickenMoon. Suomen valokuvataiteen museon julkaisuja, 7. Helsinki: Suomen Valokuvataineen Museo (Finnish Museum of Photography), 1999. ISBN 9519086579. Includes CD. With Cia Rinne and Sebastian Eskildsen. "Part of Shuttle 99, a Nordic-South African cultural exchange"; "Opus 38".
• al-Madina (with Pentti Sammallahti and Kristoffer Albrecht, 2002)
• The Roma Journeys. Göttingen: Steidl, 2007. ISBN 3865213715. Text: Cia Rinne. Preface: Günter Grass
  Günter Grass
  Günter Wilhelm Grass is a Nobel Prize-winning German author, poet, playwright, sculptor and artist.He was born in the Free City of Danzig...
  
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  • Roma-rejserne. Copenhagen: Kunsthallen Nikolaj, 2007.
  • Die Romareisen. Göttingen: Steidl, 2009. ISBN 3865214290.

External links

• Eskildsen's website