Else Vinæs

Photography is a form of visual communication that has evolved from simple experiments with light and shadow to a sophisticated technology that shapes how we see and understand the world. It is a discipline that combines art and technique. Fine art photographers experiment with composition, light and post-processing to create images that challenge the viewer’s perception.

Else plays with reality and uses her images to create creative photo art. She creates a story that leaves room for our imagination. Playing with reality results in alternative images. Else creates a personal and imaginary experience of the past and the future. She tries to capture a form of timelessness. She observes her surroundings and holds on to the impressions. Our reality is suspended and combined into a new context.

The images have a story that appeals to the viewer’s imagination. The camera does not lie, it is said. In return, Else has a creative relationship with the truth. You have to give yourself plenty of time and let your eye and imagination wander around the image. It is up to the viewer to decide what the image should show.

The best moment is always right now.

Erik Jørgensen

Visual art is about appearance, but nothing is what it appears to be. This is not least true of Erik Jørgensen’s images. Erik works in the photographic field of tension between fiction and reality, where the camera’s registration of an “objective” reality becomes elements of a fiction.

For Erik, the camera and digital image processing are tools in a creative process, just as the canvas and brush are for the painter, and the sheet music and piano are for the composer. Erik dissolves traditional photographic realism by combining elements from several different images and processing them into an interpretation where fantasy and reality merge into a whole. He creates imaginary realities and stories where time and space disappear in favor of creativity and imagination. The viewer’s experience is far from predetermined.

For Erik, there is no “truth” in photography, and he has only one photographic rule of thumb, which he lives by without exception. He ONLY uses his own photos when he makes his creations, and he DOES NOT use AI programs.

In addition, he says like the punks in the 1980s: There are no rules. Break them!!

Lone Holde

Lone Holde is experimental in her image process and is not bound by form and material. She expresses herself in many different materials and has a wide range of artworks. For her, it is about being playful in the creative process.

Lone’s fascination with working in soapstone and others began about 12 years ago. What is special about the stone is that it has its own primordial power and energy, as well as its own expression in form, hardness and color. Lone works in stone from, among others, Zimbabwe, India, China and Brazil. She chooses the stone – or the stone chooses her 🙂

When Lone starts working with the stone, she looks at the shape, color and structure – and thinks about the first thoughts about how she wants to shape it. Along the way, she may discover cracks that she needs to deal with – or exciting colors that she wants to emphasize. Then she thinks about how this should be included in the further process.

So in this way it is an interaction between Lone and the stone. That is why it is both exciting and fascinating where she ends up with the final work. It is fantastic and alluring to transform stones into works and find surprising elements in them. When the shape is finished, the stone is ground in a meditative process, after which it is waxed and polished.

Lone has a studio in KunstSmedjen at Musicon, Bagtæppet 8, 4000 Roskilde, where it is open every day from 12-16.