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Iris Lund · Copenhagen

Light, held still

Black-and-white documentary and portrait photography.

Three series

Each one followed for years, on film, printed by hand.

Dock worker inspecting a hull in dry dock

Harbour Workers

Night shifts, ropes and steel on the Danish docks.

2019 – 2024 · 38 photographs
A man alone in a train carriage at night

Night Trains

Sleeping compartments and platforms at 3 a.m., from Copenhagen to the Arctic.

2021 – 2025 · 42 photographs
Elderly woman in sunlight with deep shadows

Portraits

Neighbours, musicians and fishermen, in natural light where they live.

Ongoing · 27 photographs

I photograph what is usually not looked at.

The quiet hour before a shift. A face in a train window. Hands that know a knot by heart.

Welder surrounded by sparks in a shipyard
The welder, Aarhus shipyard, 2022
Iris Lund with a film camera

Iris Lund

Born in Esbjerg, based in Copenhagen. Eight years as a newspaper photographer, then long-form personal work. Leica M6, Mamiya 7, Ilford film, a darkroom in Vesterbro.

Signed editions

Silver gelatin prints, made by hand in my darkroom. Small editions, never reprinted.

Commissions

Portraits, editorial assignments and documentary projects in Scandinavia and beyond.

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