The art photographers Trine Søndergaard and Nicolai Howalt are among the most esteemed on the Danish art scene today and have been for the past decade. Not least due to the series “How to Hunt” from 2005, for which the duo garnered international acclaim. The series consisted of multi-layered, manipulated photographs focusing on the ritual of the hunt. A theme known throughout art history – from the cave paintings to the renaissance. The series points to the paradoxical nature of the hunt: being more of a recreational practice than a practice of necessity. The series won much acclaim for playing with the genre and re-instating it in a modern, and specifically photographic, context. For the duo, the series also marked a change from a documentary based expression towards an expression allowing the artists to play with the limits and possibilities of the photographic medium.

Reference: Trine Søndergaard, Nicolai Howalt: “How to Hunt”. 2010. P. 29.