Asger carlsen biography channel

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Asger Carlsen ’s documentary-like images create an uncanny vision of the grotesque.

What I find interesting about them is the sculptural quality lent to his subjects, as well as the sparse and un-kept environments they’re photographed in. The tension between his realist style of his photographs and their un-real subject matter creates a seamless platform from which we can ruminate over our own physical mortality.

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Greg Jones:First off Asger, tell us about how you became interested in photography, and where does the inspiration to create such haunting work come from?

Asger Carlsen: I got into photography when I was a young boy .

I felt drawn to the