Søren Thorsen - Photography

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I was born in 1944 and have been dealing seriously with photography since the beginning of the 70´ies. Dentist by

profession but retired since 2007, and my wife and I enjoy, that there are no demands on us.

 

I stand for pure and honest photography, and my most important theme is man.  The human mind fascinates me deeply.

Meeting people as a photographer give me experiences and values, I could not be without. And values are the salt

of life. No theme is strange for me. On this site you can watch images with a lot of different themes.  As mentioned  

people inspire me, and there are many varieties. But in the end they show up to have dreams and hopes as myself.

 

A good photograph must contain an artistic experience in form of a message, a story or just be a technically

delicate photograph. You must be able to return, enjoy again or find new angles in the story. It is always an

abstraction, because the photographer cuts a 2-dimensional slice out of the 3-dimensional reality. It's a

manipulation in  itself, when you press the shutter button.  The digital medium has not made me do

technical  experiments and manipulations in a larger scale. But there are a lot of possibilities in it.

There has to be a reason for experiments. It's difficult to explain in words, but you can say, the effect

should add something to the photograph and not stand alone.

 

Digital photography has been a good fertilizer. The man in the street has taken it up, and you meet people with a

camera everywhere. And I do believe, that the development will lead to higher and lasting quality in regards to prints.

 

My digital equipment is a Nikon D700 with some old AF-lenses. Furthermore I have a Canon G9, which has

 the advantage of being easy to bring along.

 

I´m a member of "Fotogruppen Kama" -  a small  group with only 2 members. We have joined SDF-

The Society of  Danish Photography. Through SDF we are members of FIAP. With my group mate in "Kama"

Christian Guldager and John Petersen I've made diaporamas.  A diaporama is a  hybrid form, an automatic

slideshow with sound. To be mentioned is a show about having a dog, a show about the modern human

in its own absurd world, and a show about showing feelings figuratively.

 

In our group we also value to spread out the knowledge of photography. Ten times we have managed the local

arrangement of "The Golden" on Haderslev Museum. "The Golden" is a censured  FIAP-exhibition with around

600 accepted works.

 

I’m also a member of a an unofficial group of photographers called "Fotosyndikatet". with the photographers

Marianne Skovby Christensen, Leif Christensen, Torkil Michelsen, Erik Holmgaard, Peter Klode.

We join one or two times a year to have a good time together and share our common interest in photography.

 

HAVE A GOOD TIME WITH THE PHOTOGRAPHS.