Growing up is based on photos from our family album, which I have reinterpreted by creating collages with my own photography and artistic eye. It is a collaborative story about me and my close family members told through the eyes of my father and I.
By creating the series I am rediscovering pieces of my childhood personality as well as remembering moments from a joyful, fearless, and light-hearted childhood in a world that with the eye’s of a young adult seem fragile and unpredictable.
Henriette Sabroe Ebbesen (b. 1994) is an autodidact photographer and film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ebbesen is interested in the intersection between science and art. Her artworks are small science experiments on how the human body, psyche and world in general can be visualized and interpreted, depending on the mind and eyes of the beholder.
Ebbesen works with reflections and collage to create surreal effects in her work: “In my work I aim to play with the sense of reality that we relate to the photograph by distorting the objects and space within the picture frame. With these effects I aim to surprise and confuse and leave one with the question of what is real.” Conceptually her works often deal with identity and the subconscious self affected by and interrelated to the surrounding world.
Ebbesen’s work has been exhibited widely, both in the USA and Europe. In 2021 she held her first solo exhibition at Vasli Souza Gallery in Oslo. Ebbesen has been spotlighted by the editors of Photo Vogue as a photographer to keep an eye on, and nominated by the photography foundation Der Greif as a selectied nominee for the talent program FUTURES supported by EU. In February 2024 a big solo exhibition “Kaleidoscope” by Henriette opened at the world-renowned Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm. In addition to her exhibition “Kaleidoscope” she presented her first monologue “Self Reflection” published by Disko Bay Books.
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