Press Photos
Samples from my time as a press photographer
In 1974 I worked as a free-lance press photographer. It was a very interesting job, through which I met a lot of celebrities, actors, politicians, musicians as well as people around the country, whom I had never met, if it hadn't been for the job.
I worked for most of the Danish newspapers and magazines such as Ekstrabladet, Børsen, Alt for Damerne, Dansk Familie Blad (closed weekly family magazine), Express (a magazine for men) and many trade papers.
Unfortunately my job s a press photographer coincided with the hectic time following my daughter's birth, so little by little I reached a peak of stress, which forced me to choose between being an attentive father or a successful photographer. I choose my role as a father - a choice I have never regretted.
I havn't collected much of my press photographs. They were taken to be quickly processed and delivered to the editorial of the paper or magazine, - then forgotten by me, as I had to rush to the next job. So only a few samples from my production can be viewed below:
Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
Jazz concert at Blågårds
Plads, Copenhagen, summer 1974
Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
Ulf Pilgraard acting
as Queen Magrethe II in front of the Tivoli Pavilon, Tivoli
Gardens, Copenhagen,
9. May 1974. Published in Ekstrabladet, 11. May 1974.
Photo
by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
Old man making a proposal
to Enka, Kirkeby, Fuen, 23. April 1994. Published in
Dansk Familie Blad,
no. 27, 4. July 1974. Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
Demonstration
at Christiansborg Slotsplads, 16. May 1974. Published first time
in Børsen,
20. May 1974 (and many times after that).
Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright
1974
Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen,
headmaster of Danish Design School (where I'm educated
in 1968-1973), 12.
June 1974. Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
I got a request
to find an old couple still being in love after many years of marriage
to
illustrate an article in Kærlighedskarrusellen in Ekstrabladet.
So I spent some
hours in Tivoli Gardens to seek for my models. I met this
lovable couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Bøgebjerre and took a series of the two
of them. Later on I visited them in their
private home at Amager. This and
other shots from the Tivoli session from 13. June
1974, were printed in Ekstrabladet
the first time 18. June 1974 and many times
after in the following years.
Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974
Photo by Eric Klitgaard - copyright 1974