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Thorsten von Overgaard (born 1965) is a Danish writer and photographer, specializing in portrait photography and documentary photography. He writes about photography.
Portrait photography or portraiture in photography is a photograph of a person or group of people that captures the personality of the subject by using effective lighting, backdrops, and poses. A portrait picture might be artistic, or it might be clinical, as part of a medical study. Frequently, portraits are commissioned for special occasions, such as weddings or school events. Portraits can serve many purposes, from usage on a personal Web site to display in the lobby of a business.
Overgaard was born in Aarhus, the second-largest city in Denmark.
Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality. It is located on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula, in the geographical centre of Denmark, 187 kilometres (116 mi) northwest of Copenhagen and 289 kilometres (180 mi) north of Hamburg, Germany. The inner urban area contains 273,077 inhabitants and the municipal population is 340,421. Aarhus is the central city in Business Region Aarhus and in the East Jutland metropolitan area, which had a total population of 1.378 million in 2016.
Denmark, officially the Kingdom of Denmark, is a Nordic country and the southernmost of the Scandinavian nations. Denmark lies southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and is bordered to the south by Germany. The Kingdom of Denmark also comprises two autonomous constituent countries in the North Atlantic Ocean: the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark proper consists of a peninsula, Jutland, and an archipelago of 443 named islands, with the largest being Zealand, Funen and the North Jutlandic Island. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. Denmark has a total area of 42,924 km2 (16,573 sq mi), land area of 42,394 km2 (16,368 sq mi), and the total area including Greenland and the Faroe Islands is 2,210,579 km2 (853,509 sq mi), and a population of 5.8 million.
From 1983–1985 he was cultural editor of the monthly magazine Blitz where did interviews and featured Danish comics talents.[1]
In 1985, at the age of 20 he co-founded the advertising agency A-Z Reklame with Mogens Gårdsmann.[1]
Career
From 1985 to 1993 he was owner or co-owner of the advertising agencies A-Z Reklame, Thorsten Overgaard and D3.[1]
From 1993 to 1994 he worked at RMB advertising in Aarhus and then co-founded AD ONE advertising agency and eventually took over AD ONE in 1996 where he also went into producing websites, cooperated with Tiscali and World Online on international on-line campaigns, built the first Navision eBusiness integration and founded the first on-line coupon magazine and online PR agency.[2]
Tiscali s.p.a. is an Italian telecommunications company, based in Cagliari, Sardinia, that provides internet and telecommunications services to its domestic market. It previously had operations in other European nations through its acquisition of many smaller European Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the late 1990s.
World Online (WOL) was a European Internet Service Provider (ISP) which came to prominence in the late 1990s dotcom boom.
In November 2000, Overgaard sold all activities of AD ONE to Execon A/S but remained as CEO and member of the executive board for a year.[3]
In 2002, he founded a consulting company and also started writing freelance for Iværksætteren, Jyllands-Posten, etc. and also arranged tours with Ted Sorensen (John F. Kennedy speech-writer), and edited books for Klaus Riskær Pedersen. He also took up his interest in photography again and started photographing portraits for the interviews he did for the newspapers and magazines.[4]
In early 2005 Overgaard went to South-East Asia to document the relief work after the Tsunami. This resulted in the photo documentary e-book and DVD "After the Tsunami" as a testament to the relief work performed by volunteers from all over the world.[5]
2014. Die Magie des Lichts Finden. Self-published.
2015. The Moment of Emotional Impact in Photography. Self-published.
2015. The Lightroom Survival Kit 6. Self-published.
2016. The Freedom of Photographic Expression. Self-published.
2016. The New Overgaard Extension Course. Self-published.
2017. A Little Book on Photography. Self-published.
2017. Composition in Photography - The Photographer as Storyteller. Self-published.
2018. The Leica Q Know-All eBook Self-published.
2018. The Capture One Pro Survival Kit Self-published.
Publications with contributions by von Overgaard
Klaus Riskær (2009). "Understrøm". Edited by Overgaard. ISBN9788798436416.
Thomas Bloch Ravn (2009). By Den Gamle. Photographs by von Overgaard.
Jørgen Nielsen (2009). Rock i Århus – Brudstykker af en musikhistorie. Aarhus Byhistoriske Fond. Von Overgaard was a contributor/photographer
Lindsay Renee Adler and Rosh Sillars (2010). The Linked Photographers' Guide to Online Marketing and Social Media. Cengage Learning.
Color Space: Contemporary Photography. Black Box Gallery / Blurb, 2014
Snapshot Aesthetic: Domestic and Everyday. Black Box Gallery / Blurb, 2014.
Harry Mathias (2015). The Death & Rebirth of Cinema: Mastering the art of cinematography in the digital cinema age. Waterfront Digital Press.
APA (2017). APA Awards 2017 APA/American Photographic Artists.
Short films on von Overgaard
Picture Perfect (2008) – 4 minute documentary on von Overgaard and his view on photography. Made in Faroe Islands. Emma Brumpton/Channel 4.
A Life with Leica Featuring Thorsten von Overgaard (2014) – 8 minute documentary on von Overgaard and his view on photography. Made in Rome, Italy. Northpass Media.
Exhibitions
2012: Thorsten Overgaard: The Salzburg Collection, Leica Gallery, Salzburg[7]
2012: Thorsten Overgaard: The Raffles Collection Singapore, Leica Gallery, Singapore[8]
2014: Domestic and Everyday, Black Box Gallery, Portland[9]
2014: Color Space: Contemporary Photography, Black Box Gallery, Portland[10]
2014: Art Gemini Prize 2014, TriSpace Gallery, London[11]
2014: Thorsten von Overgaard, Schmidt Marketing, Hong Kong[12]
2015: Exhibition Von Overgaard: In support of the Children of Cambodia, Leica Gallery, Singapore[citation needed]
2015: Noctilux - King of the Night, Hong Kong[citation needed]
2018: Thorsten von Overgaard, International Photography Hall of Fame & Museum St. Louis [13]
Personal life
Thorsten Overgaard has been a long time member of The Church of Scientology and as part of the Scientology Disaster Response Team documented his journey to the tsunami affected areas in India and Sri Lanka in January 2005.[14][15]
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