Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

This photoalbum contains the photographs of Jørgen. Jørgen was an amateur photographer operating in the late 1950´s in a small suburban neighbourhood outside of the danish capital of Copenhagen. These photographs were made long before the danish legalisation of porn in 1969.  In Jørgen´s surroundings, neighbours and friends came together for illegal "photographing" and "swinging" and afterwards it was very common to exchange photographs and share photoalbums. Since these gatherings were illegal and everything had to happen in mutual trust so police and suspicious neighbours would not interfere, the material contains a sincere and pure innocence all though the content can awoke some disturbing feelings for the viewer. The group had no previous knowledge in photography or in the making of porn, the material is somehow "clean" of the filthy  porn industry of today, instead we have   this little album with a small statement containing mutual trust and desire. The album is soon to become a book and the photographs are kindly borrowed by Jørgen. Portrait of Jørgen / by Jens Stoltze.