Jacob Gils


Jacob Gils is a Danish contemporary art photographer known for his work in multiple exposure technique called "Movement". His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, art fairs and museums around the world.

Early life

Jacob Gils was born in Gentofte, Denmark in an artist family. His mother is the painter Merete Hansen, and his father was the painter Ove Gils. Jacob Gils graduated from the Copenhagen School of Photography in 1989, where he assisted the Danish Photographer Leif Schiller. In his early career he worked as a commercial photographer and founded the prestigious photo studio Gils Fotografi and in 2001 he transitioned to a fine art practice and started to experiment with different techniques and expressions of the photography.

Awards

2015 Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris in the category "Fine Art Nudes"
2012 Px3 Prix de la photographie Paris in the category "Fine Art Altered Images"

His work

Movement

Jacob Gils Movement series started as an experiment and eventually became a true creative work. As a matter of fact Myriam Simons, from le revenue claims that his photography is something new and full of creativity because he paints with his camera. Fredrik Haren "The Creativity Explorer", called this way for his experience exploring about human creativity and writer about the subject, talked about the balance between Jacob's "curious research mode" and the "focused execution mode".

Limit to your love

The series Limit to your love is Gils' nude experiment with a Polaroid camera. He has won two awards with this series. Virginie Lorient from Bettina Von Arnim's Gallery asserts that the transfers of colours of this technique may vary, but Jacob Gils does not modify the natural colours.

Transfer

In the transfer serie, Jacob Gils transfers polaroids onto watercolour paper. Through this innovated technique, the eye begins to decode, and to see more than a simple picture.

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