DIGO - vita

My first picture is from Bear Island (Bjørnoya) in the Barents Sea and is a very conscious choice, since it symbolises my very first encounter with the arctic nature and its fascinating impact. Three years earlier, in 1962, I had visited the more temperate Faeroe Islands, where I later lived for two years. I continued travelling to the north including Scandinavia, Iceland and seven times to Greenland. I was born in Berlin in 1939, a few months before the outbreak of World War II.. My family lived as a typical Berliner family, even though my father died in 1944. As a kid I commuted between East and West: high school and education in Western Berlin, mothers address in the East (Potsdam). I graduated from the SFOF Berlin in 1961 as a film technician, but travelled in Sweden as they built the Wall in Berlin. So for that reason I chose Scandinavia to reside in from that time on. My wife and I has been living in Denmark (Jutland) for a long time now and have two boys. I made photographs for encyclopaedias, calendars and tourism on the side of with my regular job. For many years I took photographs in the 6x7 size format, but became digital in 2003. I prefer subjects of the Nordic landscape, but today as retired, I can photograph nature subjects when I want to. But the days of big journeys is in the past…


	My first picture is from Bear Island (Bjørnoya) in the Barents Sea and is a very conscious choice, since it symbolises my very first encounter with the arctic nature and its fascinating impact. Three years earlier, in 1962, I had visited the more temperate Faeroe Islands, where I later lived for two years. I continued travelling to the north including Scandinavia, Iceland and seven times to Greenland. I was born in Berlin in 1939, a few months before the outbreak of World War II.. My family lived as a typical Berliner family, even though my father died in 1944. As a kid I commuted between East and West: high school and education in Western Berlin, mothers address in the East (Potsdam). I graduated from the SFOF Berlin in 1961 as a film technician, but travelled in Sweden as they built the Wall in Berlin. So for that reason I chose Scandinavia to reside in from that time on. My wife and I has been living in Denmark (Jutland) for a long time now and have two boys. I made photographs for encyclopaedias, calendars and tourism on the side of with my regular job. For many years I took photographs in the 6x7 size format, but became digital in 2003. I prefer subjects of the Nordic landscape, but today as retired, I can photograph nature subjects when I want to. But the days of big journeys is in the past…
			digo@digo.dk


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