PAST CONVERSATION
Fryd Frydendahl in conversation with Allen Frame
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PAST CONVERSATION
Fryd Frydendahl in conversation with Allen Frame
Join us on Thursday February 15th at 6 PM as Fryd Frydendal will be in conversation with Allen Frame about her most recent publication, “Salad Days” (Marrow Press, 2023).
Photographer and photo editor Elizabeth Renstrom wrote in the introduction for the book, “Salad Days is first and foremost a dedication to this portraiture. It is a book composed of all the unpublished one-off images and editorials that happened along the way to Fryd building the career she’s made today. It also serves as a catalog and thank you to all the brilliant misfits she’s gained on the journey to recovering and finding herself after substantial loss. I see this mutual gratitude through the fervent engagement of all her subjects. Whether bodies are draped effortlessly, or in collision with each other, there is still a dynamic gaze at Fryd or within the frame. From the sharp stare of a girl as her face is shown being either perilously or tenderly cradled by anonymous hands, to the softer, passionate gaze of a lover shampooing their partner’s head—each moment tows a slightly chaotic edge. The frames are strikingly intimate and leave me wondering how they could be anything other than candid.”
Fryd Frydendahl divides her practice between Western Jutland, Copenhagen, and New York, where she works within photographic visual art. Frydendahl was born on the west coast of Jutland in 1984, graduated from Fatamorgana in 2006, the Danish School of Art Photography, and received an advanced certificate from The International Center of Photography in 2009. Frydendahl has published several books and has exhibited widely in recent years, including solo exhibitions at V1 Gallery, Politikens Gallery, and Baxter Street Gallery at The Camera Club New York. She has received scholarships from Fogtdals Travel Grant, The Henry Margolis Foundation, and Josephine Merit Scholarship, the Danish Art Council. She was part of The 2011 CCNY Fellowship and was nominated for the Remmen Foundation’s art prize in 2018. Her book Nephews (Konnotation Press 2016) was followed by an exhibition at V1 Gallery, where Frydendahl is represented. Selected works from the series Nephews have been acquired for the permanent collections at Statens Museum for Kunst, The National Collection of Photography, The Royal Danish Library, Kunstmuseum Brandts, and The Ny Carlsberg collection. Frydendahl is currently the director at Fatamorgana, the Danish School of Art Photography.
Allen Frame is a photographer and writer, based in New York and represented by Gitterman Gallery. He has released four books of photography: Whereupon (Palermo Publishing, 2023); Innamorato (Meteoro Editions, 2023); Fever, (Matte Editions, 2021); and Detour, (Kehrer, 2001). Currently, his work appears in the exhibition Mexichrome at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. His two-person exhibition Lost and Found was presented at Soft Network in New York, in November. He is a winner of the 2017/2018 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome and CEC Artslink’s Back Apartment Residency in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2019. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including Luxe, Calme, Volupte, which he co-curated with Sergio Bessa at Candice Madey Gallery in 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor of Photography at Pratt Institute (MFA) and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts (BFA), the International Center of Photography in New York, and for Strudelmedialive.