Trine Søndergaard

Catégorie: photography - 1 Commentaire
12 November 2010

Strude #16. 2008. Chromogenic print. 23 x 23 inches

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Strude #27. 2008. Chromogenic print. 23 x 23 inches

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Strude #19. 2008. Chromogenic print. 23 x 23 inches

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Strude #20. 2008. Chromogenic print. 23 x 23 inches

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Strude #17. 2008. Chromogenic print. 23 x 23 inches

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For a period of the three years Danish photographer TRINE SØNDERGARD visited the Danish island of Fanø to take theses portraits of local women dressed up in their traditional costumes.

“My work with Strude began at a local museum on a small Danish island where women’s folk dresses were exhibited on faceless cloth dummies. The colours were intense and the detail intricate, but it was the mask-like hood that drew my eye. A garment called a “strude”, worn by women in the past to protect their faces against the elements and still worn at the annual fête I returned to year after year to make the work.”

SØNDERGARD’s approach to this series is not as an ethnographic nor typographical study, but rather reveals an attention to almost imperceptible moods and elements—how much is visible, what is said and what is unsaid, what is exposed and what is unexposed.

Read more about her work via Ahorn magazine



Un commentaire pour “Trine Søndergaard”

  1. Christina, le 21 November, 2010 à 21:22 Said:

    I had to comment on this. It’s kind of weird. I Actually come from Fanø in denmark. I really got a big smile on my face when I saw the pictures. And oh god I had to wear a “strude” to when I was a little girl. It’s torture. It’s so warm you cant imagine!