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Joakim Eskildsen

    December 22, 1971
    Cornwall
    American realities
    • Cornwall

      • 130 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      'Meine Güte, was für ein Land!', schwärmte Virginia Woolf und fragte sich, warum sie nicht in Cornwall lebte, diesem vom Atlantik umspülten mythischen Land am Ende der Welt. Einer Welt, die changiert zwischen Hart und Zart, zwischen zerklüfteten Rändern, überbordendem Blütenzauber und kargen Fischerdörfern. Auch Joakim Eskildsen zeigt sich fasziniert von dieser Landschaft, die vom Meer geprägt ist, vom Nebel gestreichelt, vom Regen verwöhnt, von der Sonne erheitert. Viermal reiste der dänische Fotograf nach Cornwall, und jedes Mal kehrte er mit melancholischen Bildern zurück, die uns teilhaben lassen am unvergänglichen Zauber von Land’s End.

      Cornwall2018
    • American realities

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      In 2010, more Americans lived below the poverty line than at any time since 1959, when the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting this data. In 2011, Kira Pollack, Director of Photography at 'TIME', commissioned photographer Joakim Eskildsen to capture the growing crisis, affecting nearly 46.2 million Americans. Based on census data, the places with the highest poverty rates were chosen when Eskildsen, together with journalist Natasha del Toro, traveled to New York, California, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Georgia over seven months to document the lives of the people behind the statistics. The people Joakim Eskildsen has portrayed are people who struggle to make ends meet, who have lost their jobs or homes, and often live in unhealthy conditions. They usually remain invisible in the American society to which the myth of the American Dream is still very strong. Many of the people held there was no such dream anymore, merely the American Reality.

      American realities2015
      3.7