Joakim eskildsen camera reviews

Early on in the pandemic, the Danish photographer Joakim Eskildsen captured an image of his son tilting his head toward the evening sky in the German countryside, where the family lives.

The photo is moving in its simplicity and haunting in its loneliness. Dancing flames cast an orange glow on the side of the boy’s face; silhouettes of bare trees ornament the distance.

The image is part of a series that Eskildsen began 16 years ago.

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After he and his partner spent 15 years traveling across Europe taking photographs, his partner became pregnant with their son, and Eskildsen realized that his work could no longer entail extensive travel. “I decided at that moment, I’m going to be a present father,” he told me recently.

And so he redirected his camera closer to home, taking photographs only of things that were within walking distance.

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