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Born in Oslo, Norway 1980
 
HIGHER EDUCATION
 
04- 06 1st Honours BA (Hons) Photographic Arts, University of Westminster, London, UK
03- 04 1st year BA Photography at Cleveland College of Art & Design, Middlesbrough, UK
02- 03 Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Norway (1st semester completed in Pondicherry, India)
Spring 02 Environmental Geography, University of Bergen, Norway
00- 01

Philosophy Foundation, University of Oslo, Norway

 
PUBLISHED WORK, WRITINGS & COMMISSIONS
 
April 07

Commissioned work by Trond & Trond Ltd (Norwegian event management) and Siemens Norway, Trondheim.

February 07 Engler og Demoner”, travel reportage on the Trinidad & Tobago carnival (text & images), published in the Friday supplement of Dagbladet, Norway 03.03.07 - PDF
Nov 06- April 07 Part- time staff, London School of Economics & Political Science. Research Assistant for ReCollect: a multimedia collaboration between contemporary art and social science at LSE (ongoing work).
Oct 06- April 07 Photography Assistant for Alys Tomlinson, London
June- Dec 06

Translator for the art/documentary film “In Search of the Malstrøm”, by Heather Barnett (for “Descent into a Maelstroem”, a BOX art/science initiative at the London School of Economics.

Oct 06

Oslo, commissioned work for Mondo, the leading travel magazine in Finland

June 06 Work published in Royal Academy Illustrated 2006 (Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2006
November 05

Part- time staff for the University of Coventry (BA Media Production), on commission in China. Setting up of exchange program link between the Zhejiang University of Media and Communication, Hangzhou (China) and the University of Coventry.

November 05 Work published in Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize Catalogue.
September 05

Ghost Hunting at Ham House, commissioned and published by Mondo.

   
REVIEWS OF WORK
   
November 05

ARTS & IDEAS: The best pictures keep it personal”, Financial Times, Nov 21, 2005

November 05 Byavisa Trondheim, Nov 23, 2005
November 05 www.foto.no - Nov 8/9, 2005
November 05 www.insanus.org - Nov 17, 2005
December 05

www.deloitte.com - “The Big Picture. Deloitte and the National Portrait Gallery.”

   
AWARDS
   
November 05

Deloitte Award for the best portrait taken by a photographer aged 25 or under, part of the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, The National Portrait Gallery.

   
EXHIBITIONS
   
May 07

Oslo Open 2007, May 3- 13, Oslo, Norway

February 07 InsideOut, Tapestry MM, Soho, London.
October 07 Happily Ever After, Oslo Globalization Conference, Oslo, Norway.
November 07 Open Salon 2007, Viewfinder Photography Gallery, Greenwhich, London.
Jun-Aug 06 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2006, The Royal Academy of Arts, London.
28-31 June 06 Best of Photography Degree Show, London West Gallery, Harrow.
22-26 June 06 The University of Westminster Degree Show, Atlantis Gallery, Brick Lane.
Nov-May 06 Schweppes Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London. Aberystwyth Arts Centre 19 Feb- 23 Mar 06, and Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts 1 April- 27 May 2006.
28 Feb 06 Mystery Portrait Postcards, The National Portrait Gallery, London.
4- 30 April 05 InsideOut, Tapestry MM, Soho, London.
9Jul-20 Oct 04 What Am I Doing Here, James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough.
April- June 04

This Is Middlesbrough: Work, Ormesby Hall, Middlesbrough.

 
   
All images © Karoline Jahn Hjorth