Projects / Archive
A selection of photographic projects, radio pieces and magazine features by Simon Høgsberg.
Photographic Projects
The Grocery Store Project
A photographic project based on 97,000 photographs taken outside a supermarket in Copenhagen. The final work presents 2,067 images of people who were photographed repeatedly at the same location.
Føtex-projektet
A photographic project made outside a Føtex supermarket in Copenhagen. The work focuses on people passing the same public place over time.
Spirit is Higher
A photographic story about Anette, a woman born without knees and elbows, and her attempt to climb Sweden’s highest mountain.
Free Advice
A project made on a street corner in Copenhagen, where Simon Høgsberg offered free advice and coffee to people passing by. The project consists of portraits and conversations with 50 people.
We’re All Gonna Die
A 100-meter-long photographic work made in Berlin. The project presents people photographed at the same location and arranged as one continuous image.
A Laborious Romance
A story from Berlin about an art project involving dating, performance and collaboration between two artists.
Dance Dance Dance
A photographic project from a dance camp in Sweden.
The Tower of Babel
A photographic project inspired by the novel 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster.
Faces of New York
A portrait project in which 10 people in New York talk about their faces.
Copenhagen / Istanbul
Notes and photographs from a bicycle journey from Copenhagen to Istanbul.
Professional Fury
A photographic report from four days on the road with Danish heavy metal band HateSphere.
The Low-Fat Diaries
A travel project about trying to get from Denmark to the Mediterranean Sea with 14 euro.
The Thought Project
A project based on stopping people in the street and asking what they were thinking the second before they were stopped.
Blue Lights and Hash Browns
A portrait project about six street artists.
Private & Public
Portraits of pedestrians photographed from the same spot in London over the course of one year.
Radio
Strøtanker på gadeplan
A Danish radio program based on recordings of people stopped in the street in Copenhagen and asked what they were thinking the second before they were stopped.
En strandtur for 14 euro
A Danish radio program about trying to get from Copenhagen to the Mediterranean Sea with 14 euro.
En cykelmygs bekendelser
A Danish radio program based on recordings made during a bicycle trip from Denmark to Istanbul.
Magazine Features
Anette på bjerget
A magazine feature published in Samvirke in 2010. The feature is about Anette and her attempt to climb a mountain.
Billeder fra en bro
A magazine feature published in Samvirke in 2009.
The Tower of Babel
A magazine feature published in Motiv in 2008. The feature is connected to the photographic project The Tower of Babel.
En tung dans på roser
A magazine feature published in Samvirke in 2008. The feature is about an avant-garde dating project in Berlin involving two artists.
Let’s Dance
A magazine feature published in Ud & Se in 2007.
Ansigtsløfter
A magazine feature published in Ud & Se in 2006.
Fra København til Middelhavet for 100 kr.
A magazine feature published in Euroman in 2005. The feature is about travelling from Copenhagen to the Mediterranean Sea with 100 Danish kroner.
Da Simon cyklede ud for at finde godheden
A magazine feature published in Ud & Se in 2005. The feature is about a bicycle journey from Denmark to Istanbul.
Tung støj
A magazine feature published in Euroman in 2005. The feature is about heavy metal music.
Tanker i New York
A magazine feature published in Euroman in 2004. The feature is connected to a project about stopping people in the street and asking what they were thinking.
Drengestreger
A magazine feature published in Romeo + Juliet in 2003.