Below zero makes my heart accelerate was created during my time in Copenhagen, when I interned with Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt. For weeks during the winter I examined the reaction of the winter white bodies in the icy harbor. Jumping in to the cold water in the early mornings, I found it beautiful how the bodies reacted to the water, disappearing for moments under water. Turning their bodies red from the adrenaline. People have been winter swimming for decades. There are enough photographs showing this, to me it felt boring to do the same thing. But still I needed to photograph these swimmers, not as an documentation, but trying to find what they are experiencing.
Now that I am busy with first stages of my latest project, I can’t help but relooking at the working process I made with this project.

In recent years the digitization of photography has made fundamental changes, which changed our entire visual culture. It has been redefined and we are looking completely different at a picture. Although, every two minutes we make more pictures than the whole of humanity in the 19th century. We became more critical towards photography. There even seems to develop a suspicion for the medium, wherein the intention of the photograph, or in which the photographer is being questioned.
To give an example, I often found myself, sitting at the table with the board of various shooting clubs before I could actually really start ‘shooting’ photographs.
Long conversations occurred, and still is whenever I am having a presentation about the project.
I often wonder therefore, are these subjects, those I truly want to continue to follow become so sensitive, it is better left unexposed? Are we more vulnerable than ever before by the medium?
Photography for many years had overcome a status of truthiness, a reflection of reality. Whoever thinks this is still true, from what I see the objectiveness we know and saw in history, the decisive moments about the here and now are no longer important. Slowly sliding in to the phenomenology, of letting go of rules and expectations. Showing imperfections and errors is no longer a problem.
At the moment we are entering a new a new cultural revolution despite the previous one has not yet been properly absorbed yet.