Fang din by / Capture your city 2023

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Fang din by is an annual photographic exhibition that follows an open competition.

This year, over 5,000 photographs were submitted and the exhibition shows 56 photographs that were selected by a jury and including the three winners of the main competition and the three winners of the competition open to schools.

This year the theme was “Without filter” and was an attempt to move photographers away from the picturesque subjects of cities and towns to look at less obviously beautiful and more raw subjects.

The exhibition is now on the square in front of the Danish Architecture Center but can also be seen in Køge, Kolding, Aalborg and Aarhus.

Dansk Arkitektur Center / Danish Architecture Center
Fang din by / Capture your city
Bryghuspladsen, København
9 June - 18 October 2023

FANG DIN BY / Capture Your City 2022

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In collaboration with the Copenhagen Photo Festival, Fang din By - Capture Your City -  is an annual photographic competition and exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center that is now in it's seventh year.

Over 5,300 photographs were submitted and the 56 images for the exhibition were selected by a jury that included the photographer Helena Christensen; the novelist and illustrator Maren Uthaug; the CEO of Copenhagen Photo Festival, Maja Dyrehauge; the photographer, Anders Hjerning and, from the Danish Architecture Center, Tanya Lindkvist.

The theme for the competition this year was Soul of the City and photographers were asked to show "how architecture forms the framework of the lived life."

The winner of the open competition was Tanja Zhigalova with a striking photograph of a woman sitting on the steps of Vor Frue Kirke in the shadow of one of the bronze statues on the west front.

There was a separate competition for schools and first place was awarded to Kaya Lund Jørum who is a pupil at Stokkebækskolen.

Fang din by is at the Danish Architecture Center
on Bryghuspladsen in Copenhagen
from 9 June to 2 October 2022

the photographs will also be shown at other venues including:
Allinge, Bornholm - 9 June to 31 June 2022
Dokk1, Aahus - 1 July to 30 July 2022
Sønderborg library - 1 August to 31 August 2022
Ringe library, Faaborg - 1 September to 2 October

the photograph by Tanja Zhigalova

Fang din by / Capture Your City 2020

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Fang din by / Capture Your City - an annual photographic competition and exhibition - opened on 25 June on the square in front of the Danish Architecture Center and will continue here until 7 October 2020.

The theme set for this year was everyday magic with the photographers looking at the buildings and landscape of the city as it frames our lives.

As always, a large number of photographers from all over the country submitted their work and this exhibition, selected by a jury, shows 55 of the photographs with three winners selected from the open competition and the three selected from the separate competition for schools.

Fang din by, Dansk Arkitektur Center,
Bryghuspladsen 10, Copenhagen
continues until 7 October 2020

Fang din by - forandring / Capture your city - change 2019

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Fang din by - catch or capture your city - is an annual photographic competition at Dansk Arkitektur Centre - the Danish Architecture Centre or DAC - that demonstrates “that our cities are full of quirky details, historical corners, new urban spaces and fantastic architecture.”

This year the theme of the exhibition is transition in the city because our cities are changing every day and that change is fast. "We adapt to climate change, building height, the old is torn down creating new urban spaces." Information about the competition posed two questions ….

How does it look when old meets new? 
Is the transformation of our cities always good? 

Along with information about submission of images for the competition were also the recommendations that photographs should not only reflect the theme for this year but should also be an "exciting composition" and show the "interaction between urban space and people.

The competition was open to professional and amateur photographers and this year 3,000 people submitted images.

A final selection was made by a jury with Maja Dyrehauge Gregersen, Director of Copenhagen Photo Festival; the photo journalist Janus Engel Rasmussen, and Christian Juul Wendell, Head of Communications at the Institut for (X) and project manager at Bureau Detours.

The overall winner was announced at the opening with the second and third prize and there was a second and separate competition for schools and again the winner and second and third prizes were announced.

Fang din by was organised in collaboration with the Copenhagen Photo Festival and the opening coincided with the opening of the Festival.

the exhibition can be seen outside on Bryghuspladsen in Copenhagen
- the public square in front of BLOX -
from 7 June through to 30 August

for the first time this year there will also be a separate but closely-related exhibition - showing a different selection of images - that will be moved between a number of venues around the city.

That exhibition can be seen at:

  • Nytorv - 7 June to 20 June

  • Israels Plads - 21 June to 4 July

  • Rådhuspladsen - 5 July to 18 July

  • Kultorvet - 19 July to 1 August

  • Den Røde Plads - 2 August to 15 August

  • Højbro Plads - 16 August to 30 August

  

Dansk Arkitektur Centre - Fang din by
Copenhagen Photo Festival
Bureau Detours
Institut for (X)

Fang din by - Bryghuspladsen

 

Fang din by - Nytorv

Fang din by 2018 / Catch your City 2018

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Today - 8th June - an exhibition of photographs of Copenhagen opened on the square in front of the new Danish Architecture Centre.

This is the annual show of photographs of the city that were taken for an open competition that this year had 2,600 entries. 

Run in coordination with Copenhagen Photo Festival, the theme for this year was ‘my home in the city’ so it complements the first major exhibition from DAC in their new building about housing in Denmark under the title ‘Welcome Home.’

 

winning entries can be seen on the DAC site for Fang din by

the exhibition is on Bryghuspladsen in Copenhagen through until 31 August 2018

 

Fang din by - Capture your city

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From the 11 May for a month until 11 June there is an outdoor exhibition of photographs of the city set up on the quay at the front of the Danish Architecture Centre in Copenhagen. 

Part of the Copenhagen Photo Festival, the images were submitted either to an open competition asking photographers to interpret city spaces to show their own relationship to the city or to a separate competition for school students looking at the theme of urban identity. 

Squares, parks, bridges and 'personal sanctuaries' are the subject here rather than buildings and structures.

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Copenhagen photo festival 2017