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Christian Vium

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    About Christian Vium

    Christian Vium is a photographer, filmmaker and anthropologist, primarily working on long-term personal projects anchored in participatory observation and in-depth collaboration. He is currently employed as a Post Doctoral Fellow in visual anthropology, as part of the research project 'Camera as Cultural Critique' at Aarhus University.

    His work has been awarded among others the Juror's Prize at the Center Santa Fe (2013), 1st prize of the Anthropographia Award for Human Rights (2011), The Basil Wright Film Prize by the Royal Anthropological Institute (2011); 2nd place in the Deeper Perspective Award at the International Photography Awards (2009), The Canon Explorer of Light Award at the PDN Photo Annual (2008) and the Grand Prix du Paris Match Étudiant (2007).

    Christian Vium is part of FOAM Talents 2015.

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    • Clandestine: Documenting Migration
      Christian Vium
      “A story about life and death…a story of men who risk everything in order to provide a better future for their families; a story of contemporary heroes who undertake a Homeric journey into the unknown…”
    • The Wake
      Christian Vium
      Offering new perspectives on contemporary Aboriginal life through a comparison with a famed, century-old photographic archive. In each diptych, the past, the subjects and the photographer come into intense, performative dialogue.
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