Talk : A workshop on your future

Date

May 3 incl. May 3

Opening time

Sat: 13:00 - N/A

Anders Birger

Talk : A workshop on your future

How do we want to be remembered, and how will we be remembered?

In this workshop we will be exploring our future stories and imagine ourselves looked back on from a not-too-distant future. What will be your narrative, and what stories will be told about us by our descendants? Photographer and writer Anders Birger will lead us through his own work created in collaboration with his daughter Nora, and their imagined great (great) granddaughter Clara. We will work together as a group to create our own future image remembered by those who will come after us and find ways to manifest this image for ourselves as well as for those who will inherit it.

What will be your story?

Anders Birger

‘I am a socially engaged documentary photographer with an extended teaching practice, working on topics that stem from my own curiosity and whose aim is to address issues in society that I want to be changed. My work might be about others, but it is also a way for me to understand my own position in society; a way for me to try to evolve as a human being.

I work with photography and video. I also like to write and build things for my projects. My aim is to tell stories that make you wonder.

These stories exist in the realm of magic realism, sitting between fact and fiction. I want my audience to be free to explore the world I create and draw their own conclusions.

By focusing on themes of power, control, courage and beauty, I hope to make people question the stories we tell ourselves, and the social structures that bind us. In this way, I want to challenge the inequalities in society.

I was born in Denmark where I graduated from the Danish School of Journalism with a BA in photojournalism. I then moved to London where I took my first MA at London College of Communication, in documentary photography and photojournalism. Last summer I graduated with my second Masters, this time in photography and society, from The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.

I teach at Masters level at LCC London and live between London and Copenhagen.’

https://andersbirger.com/