Allan Daugaard Hansen (1922–2009) was trained as a ship designer, and from 1953 to 1974 he was chairman of Burmeister &Wain's Art Society. Concurrently, he was an enthusiastic photographer and later self-taught painter. Precisely his interest in photography was at the root of his life-long friendship with Henry Heerup with whom Daugaard Hansen made a colour film in 1955. He also published a profusely illustrated monograph on Heerup in 1996.