{"id":58163,"date":"2017-11-02T17:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=58163"},"modified":"2017-11-02T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T16:49:25","slug":"edith-bergfors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/edith-bergfors\/","title":{"rendered":"Edith Bergfors on Her Inspirations, Downfalls and Why Two Penises are Better Than One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58167 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/studio-shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Image from upcoming project released through Ditto Press Image courtesy of Ditto Press\/Edith Bergfors<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Edith Bergfors&#8217; talent and love for photography was spurred by a discussion with her cynical teacher Mr. C in her homeland of Denmark. She told Sleek, &#8220;He strongly advised us against pursuing photography as a career, saying it was too hard to make money from, but I don\u2019t think I listened to him very much.&#8221; We&#8217;re incredibly grateful Bergfors decided not to heed Mr. C&#8217;s advice, as her powerful work stands out in London\u2019s saturated art scene. Her images are striking and powerful, while maintaining a certain tenderness and intimacy. Her projects have ranged from <a href=\"https:\/\/i-d.vice.com\/en_uk\/article\/bjmgg5\/baroness-is-hosting-an-erotic-cinema-out-of-ditto-press-this-weekend\"><span class=\"s2\">erotic movies<\/span><\/a> in tiny London cinemas to shooting the lookbook for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/fashion\/article\/30844\/1\/london-designers-debut-dirty-new-tees-for-baron-mag\"><span class=\"s2\">Baron\u2019s NSFW t-shirt project<\/span><\/a>. Bergfors combines a mastery of fashion photography with a knack for capturing her subjects at their most vulnerable, and the London art world is all the richer for it.<\/span><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BQs0dcqjzNw\/?hl=en&#038;taken-by=edithbergfors<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bergfors regularly collaborates with striking fashion publications, including Baron, Baroness Magazine and Lurve Magazine. Her second collaboration with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edithbergfors.com\/fashion\/baron-magazine-ii\/\"><span class=\"s2\">Baron \u2014 inspired by Lars von Trier&#8217;s &#8220;Melancholia&#8221;, <\/span><\/a> is a particular highlight. Bergfors told us that this editorial was the product of a conversation she had with Baron and Baroness founder Matthew Holroyd. &#8220;We decided to create a flashback series of images that one might see at the end of an apocalypse,&#8221; she explained.\u00a0&#8220;We went through my old archives as well as shooting new material and spent a lot of time editing them together to create that visual narrative.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58667 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/edith-bergfors.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Image from Baroness shoot \/ courtesy of Edith Bergfors<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When questioned about whether her work comes from a (<i>buzzword alert)<\/i>\u00a0feminist perspective, she responded, \u2019\u2019I\u2019m not necessarily coming from a feminist direction, though that\u2019s not to say I don\u2019t think men and women should have equal rights!\u2019\u2019 She continued, &#8220;I\u2019m generally interested in the remains of traditions and belief systems that are still presenting themselves in contemporary visual culture, and I like to play with these ideas in ways that might seem provocative, but that are also humorous.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Her most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edithbergfors.com\/fashion\/baroness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent shoot for Baroness<\/a> is a prime example of this. &#8220;The idea was to recreate images inspired by the &#8216;readers wives&#8217; pages of magazines, (in which, traditionally, the male readers of the magazine photograph their wives in kinky situations and have them printed in the back pages). Instead, we imagined the ultimate hunk, who was so excessively attractive because he had not one, but two penises. He was the perfect model for the Baroness, as the idea of the magazine was to flip the power from the male to the female gaze\u2019\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58166 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/looking-up.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Image from upcoming project released through Ditto Press Image courtesy of Ditto Press\/Edith Bergfors<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58164 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bath-tub.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Image from upcoming project released through Ditto Press Image courtesy of Ditto Press\/Edith Bergfors<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bergfors is currently working on two books: &#8220;The Death Book&#8221;, and a second unnamed project, which most of the images in this article are drawn from. This project &#8220;functions as a portrait of my relationship with my now-wife Anna, who is transgender and was presenting as a male when we first met.&#8221; With such an intimate body of work, it makes sense that Bergfors has turned her lens on the most intimate and vulnerable parts of her own life; and the results, as you can see, are blisteringly tender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Both are due to be imminently published through Baron and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dittopress.co.uk\/\">Ditto<\/a>, respectively. Take a look at her portfolio of work on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edithbergfors.com\/\">website,\u00a0<\/a>and visit her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/edithbergfors\/\">Instagram<\/a> for a more intimate view of the photographer and her life.<\/span><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image from upcoming project released through Ditto Press Image courtesy of Ditto Press\/Edith Bergfors Edith Bergfors&#8217; talent and love for photography was spurred by a discussion with her cynical teacher Mr. C in her homeland of Denmark. 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