Capture Your City 2023: No Filter
Exhibition
Jun 9 - Oct 3, 2023
What does the city look like if we cut away sunsets and summer days? If we look at the city with brutally honest eyes, what other images show up?
This year, the Capture Your City theme was No Filter and we invited participants in the competition to look past the romantic painting and instead see beauty in the timeworn, the raw, the shabby, and the abandoned in the city. More than 5,000 photographs were submitted for the competition.
In the Capture Your City exhibition you can explore the best photos, chosen by a jury with e.g. photographer Marie Hald and film producer Emile Hertling Péronard. The exhibition includes photographs from the open main competition and from the schools competition for middle classes and final classes.
If you feel like having your photo in the exhibition, you can take part in the Capture Your City competition in 2024!
Photo: Natascha Lhea Narvaez Nielsen Natascha Lhea Narvaez Nielsen: Tiny living
The jury’s statement: “The 1st prize winner in Capture Your City 2023 takes us into a very private and intimate space. We have an honest look into everyday life in the city, where the laundry and washing-up struggle for space in the cramped kitchen. The window frames the city outside – we see the many other apartments, where similar lives are perhaps playing out. There is something timeless about the photograph; having to live in a small space has always been part of life in the city. The photograph has a nice composition and could have been taken for a newspaper report.”
Photo: Asger Korsgaard Asger Korsgaard: Nørrebroparken
The jury’s statement: “The motif is a strong example of this year’s theme, depicting the sometimes less attractive side of the city when the diggers and mayhem of construction move in. But it also shows how, despite everything, citizens can still find oases in the changing cityscape, and almost in contempt sit on their favorite bench and piece of grass, even though their chosen spot is not exactly welcoming. This photograph seems rather messy at first, but after a little time a harmony takes shape, and there is much to explore.”
Photo: Alex Traberg Alex Traberg: Who’s your daddy
The jury’s statement: “This photograph brings to mind H. C. Andersen and the Ugly Duckling. The beautiful and enchanting is covered by dirty plastic! The photograph plays with the contrast between nature and culture – the live birds sitting on the artificial; a theme repeated in H. C. Andersen’s fairytales and in the manmade city with its nature. The photographer was clearly in the right place at the right time and captured the moment displaying human imitation of nature.”
Winners
Winners – School Contest
Photo: Lucas John Hansen Lucas John Hansen: Fest og farver
6.d. Kildegårdsskolen (Herlev)
The jury’s statement: “The photographer has captured a very special energy and without a filter. The red light and smoke are aesthetically very impressive. The motif also tells a story; it could serve as a photograph in a newspaper report for young people! There is something disturbing and secretive about it, because we cannot see the face of the ‘protagonist’, and the mystery leads us to think about what is actually going on and where it is all happening.”
Photo: Alma Christine Hulgaard Gebhardt Alma Christine Hulgaard Gebhardt: Uden titel
8. klasse Søndermarksskolen (Rønne)
The jury’s statement: “Is it architecture? A staircase? Perhaps the Forest Tower on Zealand? No, it is a pile of car tires with a little rainwater, but it takes a while for the observer to realize this. The photograph links perfectly with this year’s theme of finding beauty in unexpected places. It zooms in on some objects in the city that may have been left behind or forgotten and shows that poetry can even be found here.”
Photo: Freya Elina Stokbro, Ellen Gjerløv Winther Freya Elina Stokbro og Ellen Gjerløv Winther: Bilulykke
5.a. Filstedvejens Skole (Aalborg)
The jury’s statement: “A conceptually well thought out and well taken photograph. The cars are reflected in the glass pane, and they lead our thoughts to the title of the photograph: “Road Accident”. The motif captures the ugliness in the city – garbage, soot, and broken glass, but with a classical mirroring technique that makes the photograph interesting to look at and impressive in its very own way.”
Jury
Emile Hertling Péronard
Film producer
Emile Hertling Péronard is a Greenlandic film producer based in Copenhagen. His production companies, Ánorâk Film and Polarama Greenland, build bridges between Greenland and Europe by producing documentaries, fictional and new media productions. Most recently, Emile produced the award-winning Music for Black Pigeons by Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed as well as Twice Colonized, which will open this year’s Danish documentary film festival CPH:DOX. For more than a decade, he has worked to improve conditions for film production in the Arctic, and his films have been shown at the Festival de Cannes, the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival and the Venice International Film Festival.
Maja Dyrehauge
Managing Director, Copenhagen Photo Festival
As managing director of Copenhagen Photo Festival, Maja shines a spotlight on international art and documentary photography. To Maja, photography is important because it has become an everyday language that everyone responds to and uses.
Marie Hald
Photographer
Marie Hald is a Danish photographer who has achieved international recognition, winning, among other things, a World Press Photo Award. She currently has a major solo exhibition at Denmark’s national Portrait Gallery at Frederiksborg Castle and has previously had a solo exhibition at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Marie is known for her book of photography, Feminin, which features more than 100 photographs of people between the ages of 0 and 102. Her photographs appear raw and unedited, resulting in a book that honestly portrays the many different ways a body can look.
Mia Heil Rasmussen
Head of Marketing and Communications Dansk Arkitektur Center
Mia is responsible for marketing and communication at the Danish Architecture Center. She has a good eye for graphic arts and photo through her work. Mia is representing DAC for the first time this year in the jury.
Tanja Zhigalova
Winner of the Capture Your City contest in 2022
Tanja Zhigalova won the 2022 Capture Your City photo contest when the theme was Soul of the City. Her photograph contained a delicate contradiction between an elderly lady and a large statue outside the Church of Our Lady – Copenhagen Cathedral. Each year, we invite the winner of the previous year’s contest to sit on the jury and offer their view on who should take the title of Capture Your City winner!
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