Joakim Eskildsen


Joakim Eskildsen is a Danish art photographer.

Career as a photographer

Eskildsen born 1971 in Copenhagen. He was a pupil of Rigmor Mydtskov in Copenhagen and went to Finland in 1994 to study photographic book making with Pentti Sammallahti at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He lives near Copenhagen and has shown some of his works in Europe, China, and South Africa.
From 2000-2006, together with the writer Cia Rinne, Eskildsen sought out Romani in various countries and other ethnic groups in India who are possibly related to the Roma. The fruits of this work have found their way into the book The Roma Journeys, which delivers insight into the life of the Roma by its text and more than 200 photographs.

Awards