As title suggest, this was taken at a small exibition of a few of Danish photographer Jakob Holdts works.
You might know Jakob Holdt, as he is one of the most inspiring and fascinating humans I know of, as well as one of the most influental photographers of all time.
In the mid-1970s he dropped out of high school and travelled to the United states as a vagabond with only $40 and a lousy camera, and hitch hiked for over 200,000 km. Twice a week he'd donate blood in order to buy film. He lived in over 400 homes, from many of the very poorest of Americans to klansmen and Rockefellers.
Over the past 30 years he has put together the show
American Pictures. Alongside the photographies he has fascinating theories of supressing structures and the development of racism.
Examples of Jakob Holdts pictures:
How the army recruits...,
Girl in Georgia,
The whore and white sexism,
Shoe shiners in New Orleans,
Homeless woman on Wall Street,
Independent life,
Dying, homeless man in front of pharmacy,
You do not recieve because you ask wrongly,
Shooting up in the Bronx,
A voice for killing poor people.
ironically, yesterdays picture of a homeless man shooting up in an alley in inner Vesterbro, Copenhagen (an area often , linked with prostitution and drugs), just under the One Love-tag, was taken right outside this exibition. Except for that I did not know the man, it might have fitted right in with the exibition.
