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Simon Høgsberg. Self-Portrait.

The look of Simon Høgsberg, BA in photography and a freelancer photographer in Copenhagen. Featured for amazing works in projects like “We’re all Gonna Die”.

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Thorugh my lens: The idea of this section is to gather the diversity and life opinions, perspectives, options and the development of photography at the professional and educational level worldwide.
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Max: Simon, we are interested in get a closer on your vision and your sense of photography. For us it is an approach open to your focus. Let’s start with the most trivial: What do you want to reflect with the people at your work? We suposse that you have a major purpose, is that true?

Simon: If I have an overall purpose of photografing people, it is to prove how fundamentally similar we are, despite superficial diferences. I feel we have difficulty in understanding and accepting this fact – especially people in the Western World, who are convinced that we are the center of the world.

Detail of Simon's work "We are all gonna die".

Max: Do you seize the moment randomly or do you make a research with a plan of work?

Simon: I try to follow the impulses or gut feelings or whatever goal-oriented apparatus I’m equipped with throughout all creative processes I’m engaged in. Sometimes the project I’m looking for turns up at my front door and all I have to do is let it in. At other times I’ll have to put on my shoes and go look for it.

Max: Do you have any preferred camera for your work?

Simon: The camera I prefer is Canon’s Mark III. It’s wonderfully close to medium format.

"I try to follow the impulses or gut feelings or whatever goal-oriented apparatus I’m equipped with throughout all creative processes I’m engaged in. Sometimes the project I’m looking for turns up at my front door and all I have to do is let it in."

Max: How do you market yourself and control your finances (invoicing, etc.)?

Simon: I don’t control my finances – at the moment my finances seem to control me. It doesn’t matter too much, though. When the situation gets too tough I’ll just pull myself together and look up some commercial work. The old story of every curious-driven guy in town.
As to the marketing bit I do way too little to get noticed by the right people – the right people, in this case, being the ones with easy access to money.

Max: What professionals have inspired your work, can you tell us their names?

Simon: I can give you three names of visual artists who have – among many others – inspired me:
Their names are: Sophie Calle, Peter Funch and Marc Horowits.

Max: Which blogs/websites are your most important reference?

Simon: That would be… TED.com for sure.

There’s not one single person but many people whose comments and views influence the way I see things. I try to be in touch with such people on a daily basis."

Max: What message or advice would you give to those who are starting out in photography?

Simon: The advice I would give those who are starting out in photography would be this: Make sure to be more interested in what you don’t know than in what you do know. And one other thing which is just as important, don’t let your fear of change persuade you to stay where you are. Stagnation is death.

Max: There’s someone that give you constant advice or feedback, or do you work completely alone?

Simon: There’s not one single person but many people whose comments and views influence the way I see things. I try to be in touch with such people on a daily basis.

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