Peace
Most people probably know me as a peace and conflict researcher. That has been my primary occupation since 1975. Since 1985 when my wife, Christina, and I established TFF – The Transnational Foundation for Peace And Future Research – that has been my primary organisation – although heading the Lund University Peace Research Institute, LUPRI, 1983-1989.
When you visit TFF, you’ll see a series of menus that will take you back to earlier homepages, from 1997 and onwards, when we began to use the Internet intensively. With some 7000 articles and posts, it is one of the largest collections of peace research anywhere; and all is free.
The menu above – Publications 1970- isn’t ready yet but I hope to offer the visitors here a more or less complete list of about 3000 works – books, book chapters, reports, debate articles, columns, commentaries (text and videos).
Those places cover what I do and have done as peace and future researcher.
Art photography – art photographics
My works since I went public as an art photographer in 2009 can be found on Oberg PhotoGraphics. It integrates all I do in this field and contains also links, portfolios, a shop, my work journal and much else.
I write Oberg PhotoGraphics Blog about contemporary art. Since the end of 2018, it is now exclusively about other artistsâ works, exhibitions etc, not my own. You may take a look and follow it if you like.
I post things almost daily on Instagram and would be glad to have mutual following there.
I also curate a âGlobalArt â Magazine for art photography and other artâ on Flipboard which is a new experience, particularly when you âflipâ images and pages on your phone.
Connections
Peace + photography = peace photography? It’s not that direct and I am not working on it intentionally. But over time the two may become more closely connected.
One such example would be the Silk Peace Art Road Installation (SPAR) that I exhibited at the Vienna Biennale 2019. Another would be my documentary photography.
There is no doubt that we have enough images of violence 24/7. Neither that images increasingly catch attention and shape people’s worldviews while the propensity to read academic texts and the longer argument is rapidly decreasing.
However, the basic reason I do photography is that I feel an urge to and I want to do something that is more intuitive, joyful and experimental – using both sides of the brain. I’ve taken pictures since I was 7 and grew up with art collecting parents. I’ve followed the modern art world – as much as I could – for more than 60 years. That is my only “education” in that field whereas, in peace research, I have all the formal degrees and titles.
In Danish
At fotografere giver mig en sĂŠrlig glĂŠde. Man kan jo ikke vĂŠre intellektuel hele tiden og jeg har brug for at arbejde med andre ting end krig og anden vold – 25-30% af min tid. Og gerne mere i fremtiden.
Mine to vigtigste steder i dag er:
1) Oberg PhotoGraphics – der gik op forud for Ă„bningen af mit atelier den 2-3. maj 2009 og siden er blevet fornyet totalt i 2013 og igen i august 2018. Her kan du ogsĂ„ kĂžbe kunstfotografiske arbejder til dig selv eller som gave online.
2) Min fotoblog, som jeg startede i 2011. Den handler om fotokunst og anden kunst, som andre skaber, men ikke om mine egne ting.
3) Jeg kuraterer ogsĂ„ et online “flip” magasin for foto- og anden moderne kunst – GlobalArt.
4) Endelig poster jeg nye ting nÊsten dagligt pÄ Instagram.
Og her er andre steder:
4) TFF – Jan Oberg Photography der viser udvalgte ting 2003-2007, altsĂ„ en slags arkiv.
5) Min fotohjemmeside har ogsĂ„ en side pĂ„ Facebook og jeg blir selvsagt glad hvis du vil “Like” den, gĂžre den til en favorit hos dig selv og fortĂŠlle dine venner om den.
6) En Twitter-side, der handler om bÄde foto og fred.
Jeg har ogsÄ en side pÄ Flickr, men pÄ den findes kun ting, der findes pÄ de andre. Men man mÄ jo vÊre der!
Jeg har fotograferet siden jeg var 7 – film, dias og digitalt.
Siden efterÄret 2007 har jeg satset mere pÄ fotografi og oprettede 1).
I maj 2009 Äbnede jeg foto-atelier og du er altid velkommen men kun efter aftale, da jeg ikke kan have faste Äbningstider. Skriv til mig pÄ jan@obergphotographics.com eller ring pÄ 0046 738 525200.
Fred og fotografi = fredsfotografi? MÄske! MÄske kan det gÄ op i en hÞjere enhed en dag? Vi har i alle tilfÊlde mer end nok af billeder af volden.
Og sĂ„ giver nogle af serierne glimt fra de steder, TFF og jeg har arbejdet. For eksempel blev serierne fra Irak fĂžr besĂŠttelsen et af de mest besĂžgte steder pĂ„ TFF’s hjemmeside da USA og koalitionen indledte sin krig og besĂŠttelse.
Velkommen til mit arbejde med fotografik!
Hej Jan, tusind tak for dit langvarige arbejde for at stĂžtte op om fredsarbejde. Med din interesse for fotografering vil jeg henvise til Roland Guenter’s bog fra 1977. Den hedder Fotografie als Waffe. Undertitel:Geschichte der sozialdokumentarischen Fotografie. MĂ„ske ikke lige centralt for din orientering udi fotokunsten, men stĂŠrkt inspirerende. Med venlig hilsen fra Jan Kirstein i EspergĂŠrde.