LADEFOGED, Joachim - After my time / Tiden efter min tid - SIGNED ENGLISH EDITION!

Personal statement by Danish photographer, Joachim LADEFOGED

"In July of 2001 my wife and I had our first, long-wished-for child. Two months later 9/11 struck, and I went from joy to fear. My life as a photojournalist, documenting the hotspots of the world, was changed forever; I did not want my children to grow up without a father. I restructured my life, wrapped myself around my family, and turned my gaze inwards. Then I began to feel a need take stock. I began to take a closer look at what kind of world my children were going to grow up in, and what I carried from my childhood that I could pass on to them.
'After my time / Tiden efter min tid' is my journey back in time, back to my childhood, to all the places I have lived and from which I carry memories.My meeting with the past turned out to be more difficult than I had imagined. It was worth it though. It was a journey back in time to find my own roots; a journey that taught me to look ahead by looking back." (Joachim LADEFOGED)

Background information

"When Danish photographer Joachim LADEFOGED and his wife had their first child in 2001, it would change both of their lives. Just two months later, the 9/11 attacks took place and then-new father, known for his powerful reportage photography filed from sixty countries, decided to radically change how he approached much of his work.
Instead of grabbing his camera and heading into a conflict zone, he returned to his native Denmark and started producing 'slower, more introspective work.' The photo volume 'After My Time', that emerged from this process, is his attempt to 'take stock' of his history and to examine the personal, cultural and historical legacy he might pass on to his child. Between 2002 and 2014, he visited the many homes he grew up in (his family moved around a lot), the barns that sat out the back, the roadsides nearby. Access wasn’t always easy but he nearly always got in, and built up a rapport with the new residents. The project itself changed direction, too. In 2007, he scrapped most of the photographs he had made since 2002, because he found that despite slowing down he was still shooting in a “reportage style”. So he got out his tripod and slowed down even further." (© Richard Conway in: TIME LIghtBox, 2014)

Content

The result in the photo book 'After my Time' by Joachim LADEFOGED is a series of visually dense, sometimes haunting images. After a small introduction (here in English), roundabout 50 color images are placed in the middle of the pages, one per page, surrounded by white space, no page number no more informations. Those are given with the tumbnails at the end of the linen bound book.

About the Danish photographer, Joachim LADEFOGED (b.1970)

Photo books by Joachim LADEFOGED