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Peter Funch
Five Minutes of Anarchy The Danish photo designer, Peter Funch (*1974), has managed to collect a series of impressive awards over the last decade, arousing curiosity over his new works that originated out of a spectacular image campaign. It was an impressive spectacle when Sony let loose 250 thousand shockingly colorful… Read more
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Background Information about Peter Funch
Introduction
Five Minutes of Anarchy
The Danish photo designer, Peter Funch (*1974), has managed to collect a series of impressive awards over the last decade, arousing curiosity over his new works that originated out of a spectacular image campaign.
It was an impressive spectacle when Sony let loose 250 thousand shockingly colorful superballs in the streets of San Francisco. Peter Funch was there to take really amazing photographs in which you have to look twice to believe what you are seeing: an unleashed mass of small, colorful balls hopping down the hills, past the American emblems of normality. The unloaded automobiles parked in front of wooden row houses interfere with an established sedateness, with which unrestrained anarchy suddenly interferes. In a few minutes the show will be over, and the residents who noticed it will rub their eyes. But this moment, with its crazy vitality, will live on in Peter Funch’s photographs. What we got to see is a child’s dream that left everyone, who managed to preserve such childhood dreams, in a great mood.
In 2018, Funch received ‘The Director Einar Hansen and Wife Vera Hansens Art, Design and Architecture Award’ Dir for his work 42nd And Vanderbilt.
The Danish photo designer, Peter Funch (*1974), has managed to collect a series of impressive awards over the last decade, arousing curiosity over his new works that originated out of a spectacular image campaign.
It was an impressive spectacle when Sony let loose 250 thousand shockingly colorful superballs in the streets of San Francisco. Peter Funch was there to take really amazing photographs in which you have to look twice to believe what you are seeing: an unleashed mass of small, colorful balls hopping down the hills, past the American emblems of normality. The unloaded automobiles parked in front of wooden row houses interfere with an established sedateness, with which unrestrained anarchy suddenly interferes. In a few minutes the show will be over, and the residents who noticed it will rub their eyes. But this moment, with its crazy vitality, will live on in Peter Funch’s photographs. What we got to see is a child’s dream that left everyone, who managed to preserve such childhood dreams, in a great mood.
Peter Funch currently lives and works in Paris, France. Prior to that, he resided in New York for 13 years, where he worked as a photographer. Funch graduated as a photojournalist from the Danish School of Journalism in 1999. His still images often combine storytelling with a perceptive social commentary in a cinematic visual language, in which his technical expertise blend together with his Nordic tranquility and dry humor.
Funch works internationally on various projects including publications, editorials, advertising, and exhibitions.
The works of Danish photographer Peter Funch (born 1974) have won many awards, including the twice awarded best Danish press photo of the year. In addition, the photojournalist was invited to the renowned 10th World Press Photo master class with Joob Swart. He regularly takes part in international exhibitions as a freelance photographer.
In 2018, Funch received ‘The Director Einar Hansen and Wife Vera Hansens Art, Design and Architecture Award’ Dir for his work 42nd And Vanderbilt.
His works are currently exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen and in the Reinbeckhallen in Berlin.
Bio
| 1974 | Born in Nykobing Falster, Denmark |
| 1995-2000 | Photography studies at the Danish School of Journalism |
| 2002 | Cofounder of the Gallery V1, Copenhagen |
| 2003 | Participant in the 10th annual World Press Photo Joop Swart masterclass |
| Lives and works in Paris, France |
Awards
| 2018 | The Art, Design and Architecture Award of the Year, Dir. Einar Hansen and wife Vera Hansen Foundation, International |
| 2006 | Winner of Diesel New Art 2006 in category photo with the work Xing Xs |
| 2004 | Nominee for Guldkorn von Creative Circle, Best Photographer and Best Photo Collection |
| 2003 | Nominee for Guldkorn von Creative Circle, Best Commercial Campaign for the AIDS Foundation |
| Finalist in the SXSW Internet Prizes | |
| 2002 | 1st Prize, Best Danish Press Photo of the Year for portraits of the World Trade Center, Sept. 2001 |
| 2001 | Crossing red town awarded and exhibited at the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles, und in the Gallery d'Éssai, Paris |
| 2000 | Award for the project Crossing Red Town as Press Photo of the Year |
| 1st Prize for the Best Photojournalist Project of the Year from the Danish School of Journalism | |
| 1999 | 1st Prize, Best Danish Press Photo of the Year |
Exhibitions
| 2020 | 42nd And Vanderbilt, Vevey, Swiss |
| 2020 | Street, Life, Photography (Group Exhibition), Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 2018 | A History of Photography: Daguerreotype to Digital, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom |
| 2018 | The Triennial of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2018 | Photography To End All Photography, Photobiennalen, Brandts, Odense, Denmark |
| 2016 | Friendships, Nivaagaards Malerisamling, Nivå, Denmark |
| 2015 | The Aesthetics of the Mobile Phone, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany |
| 2007 | Solo exhibition at V1 Gallery, Copenhagen |
| 2006 | selected by Getty Images for "New Photographers 2007"premiering at Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival |
| 2004 | Celebration of the rebellion, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen |
| 2003 | Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam |
| Las Vegas, Gallery V1, Copenhagen | |
| Made by man, Pictures from Las Vegas, Gallery Kling & Bang, Reykjavik | |
| 2001 | Crossing Red Town, Copenhagen Photography Center, Recontres Photographiques Arles und Gallery d'Essai, Paris |
| On Contempo, Kunsthalle Kopenhagen und Gallery Zing, Stockholm |
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