The work I completed last month for the commendable project Virksomhed Vollsmose - creating a prosperous future for female asylum seekers, if you haven't read the entry - was recieved so well that they asked me back to Denmark for further work. It was very exciting for me because they were all so interesting, and it was something completely new for me.
They asked me to host my work in an exhibition. One which would be shown at 6 different locations around Denmark. This involved me choosing my favourite photographs from the previous job and design a layout for them as an exhibition. I chose twelve images, and for cost reasons decided that I could make them work in A1 frames, alternating the amount from 1 to 3 images (see the photo attached). I also decided that for maximum impact I should print two of the images on canvas to hang from the ceiling as 2m x 1.2m prints.
I was also asked to create a slideshow of images that would cycle through and repeat throught the day. This had about 100 of the colour photographs I had taken previously on the ladies.
This was a truely rewarding experience, the women involved had been subservient and down trodden their entire lives. Now here they were in a new country with a fresh start, and what's more, they were the stars of the exhibition. They were as proud as I was.
I must say a thank you to those employees that set up the 5 other exhibitions as I couldn't stay in Denmark for a full month at that time. And also a thank you goes out to Claudia for taking the snaps of the exhibition for me.
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