Birgitta Lund studied at the International Center of Photography in New
York where she lived and worked for eighteen years. Her work has been featured
in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and
Europe, including Galleri Baudoin Lebon, Paris, Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse,
and Phillips de Pury in New York. Lund returned to Denmark in 2003. Her
latest body of work, In Transit, is a personal and political reflection
on that transition between the United States and Europe. Some of the photographs
are very specific: Ground Zero, Times Square, the harbors of New York and
Copenhagen. Others concentrate on more conceptual metaphors: a model railway,
a house covered by sand, an artificial horserace. Lund's work comes out
of the vision of an artist who uses photography to reflect a world in which
we seem to be permanently in transit. Images flash onto our retinas for
a few seconds before others immediately replace them. In Transit is
a visual journey between two countries and two cities, and journey in our
time. For this series of photographs, she has received the 2005 Award of
the Foundation HSBC pour la Photographie.
In Transit 2003-2005 [view images]