Through the past 24 years, I have on and off – and continuously – been taking photographs of and on the quay and harbour area at ‘Islands Brygge’, an area of Copenhagen. It used to be a garbage dump, now it’s surrounded by and covered with newly build modern and expensive concrete buildings, extremely different from when I started coming to ‘Bryggen’ back when my friend got a temporary apartment there in 1996, and we were still in College. Back then it was still a grey in grey industrial harbour area with one bar, one Chinese chippy, one kiosk and the first supermarket opening. It was an area of Copenhagen I didn’t know even though I grew up in the city, waaaay out there on the other side of the bridge ‘Langebro’ connecting to the part of Copenhagen called ‘Amager’. Since then, it has changed so much and significantly, the entire harbour area has completely changed character – and of course so has my relationship with it. From 2002 my mother got a garden-allotment house at the outskirts of ‘Bryggen’ and from 2009 I got one myself and have therefore come to know ’Bryggen’ at all times of the day and through the changing seasons, which fortunately still can be sensed there on the border to the previously protected ‘Amager Fælled’ common, now also very much a building site.
I have taken well over 1500 photographs of the harbour area through the years, and dream of selecting and compiling them into a photobook and an exhibition.
