Day 4

I tore up a Josef Koudelka exhibition today!

It kinda broke my heart to be honest. I was told to rip up and destroy a whole set of prints from a previous exhibit. Kinda felt like all I wanted to do was to save them, take them home with me and hang them on a wall where they rightfully belong. But ah well, I reckon I'm better off doing as I'm told.

Other than that, the day has mostly consisted of cataloguing, digging through the archives and trimming the new prints for Chris Steele-Perkins' new exhibition.

Bringing my work from last summer in on Wednesday. Brendan, who is in charge of the Editorial department wanted to see some of my work. Which is pretty awesome! Although I'm kinda freaking out at the same time. But he's a nice guy, so it's all good!

Have a great weekend/Easter! I'm going to spend most of it in the darkroom or behind the screen working on my degree show!

Day 2-3

I have got to be the worst blogger in the history of mankind.

Ah well. Shit happens I guess.

Anyway. I've spent a few more days at the Magnum office now. I'm still getting used to the whole idea of actually working there, so I cant really say I feel totally house warm yet. But the people I work with are very nice and welcoming. So a few more days and I think I'll be all right!

Most of my time have been spent searching through the archives, putting together lightboxes and series of images for different clients. And I've helped with taking down the "Political Landscapes" exhibit, plus preparing the exhibition space for the new exhibit "Vintage Magnum" which is going to be a kick ass show!

Getting up before 7am sucks major balls by the way. I'm not ever going to get used to that. Ever!

Day 1

So. How was it?

Day one started out pretty calm. I mostly spent the day doing smaller odd jobs here and there, which was nice. It's very nice to be able to ease in to things and just get house warm!

One of the bigger tasks was to sort through and catalogue pictures from the archives which are going out to a big customer. This means looking through a pile of prints and finding the images in the Magnum archive. It might sound like quite the boring job. But when you are working with prints from photographers like Philip Jones Griffiths, Eve Arnold, Herbert List, Trent Parke and Werner Bischof it is everything but boring!

Day 0

For the last 6 years I've had two major goals I'd like to accomplish during my lifetime. First, winning a Pulizer prize for my work. And second, becoming a part of Magnum Photos.


These are both goals I never really believed I'd be able to accomplish, but who said it's wrong to dream, right?

Well. Tomorrow morning, I might be able to move a few inches closer to realizing one of these goals. At 9.30am, I start work as an intern for Magnum Photos, London!





I'll try to keep blogging during the internship. Partially to give people some insight to what a day as an intern for Magnum is like. But most importantly, to keep a record (or a journal if you will) for myself. This way I'll be able to look back and hopefully remember more than I would without the blog.

Wish me luck!