You know how it looks. Corporate photography. You see it in company brochures. On company websites. Usually real employees exposed in very unnatural situations. Carefully instructed by the photographer. Always very aware of the camera and the flashing studio strobes. Always smiling like lunatics – although never enough to cover up for their anxiety about the whole situation. Read more.

What can a journalist learn from a panel of entrepreneurs?

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This page features interviews with me about networking, project management and ideas. They show what I do and how I do it.
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What happens when you combine commercial entrepreneurship and fine art? For me there are two simultaneous directions.

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Today I’ve been in Vejle – a 40 minute train ride south of Århus. I had been invited to give a short inspirational talk about myself and how I use Facebook – and to moderate a Q&A session with Facebook Denmark Account Excecutive Jan Christiansen.
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Portrait. Natural light.  Minimum retouch.
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Photo exhibition by Mathias Vestergaard
Hatch & Bloom Gallery
Vesterbro Torv 1-3, 3. sal
8000 Århus C
February 26th to April 23rd.

Click here to see all the photos. Prices available on request.

Video from the opening.

Yesterday I talked about my favorite subject (myself) at Pecha Kucha Night, Århus.

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Street fashion shot for Gademode.dk, Dagbladet Politiken and Euroman.

My photos have been featured in Chinese Magazine DONGXI.

The ‘street style’ photographic style has also been used for a fashion campaign for Only.

Yesterday I celebrated the opening of my first solo exhibition: Signs Of Time.

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This month Chinese magazine Shopper features a special edition of some of the best street style photos from GadeMode.

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On Thursday May 28th I gave a short eight minute talk at IT Forum Midtjylland Update 09. Proclaiming that I would save the it business by leading a new path of innovation powered by fun, joy and happines I compared myself to Moses, Jesus and Steve Jobs.

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Today, I gave a presentation at the Århus Teknisk Skole for a class of multimedia designers. I was invited to talk about one of my favourite subjects of all times – me. I began my presentation by explaining that my ultimate goal was to save the planet and everyone on it.

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Contrary to some photographers, I love to shoot personal portraits. I like to experience how others perceive themselves and to try to capture this in a photo.

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While the young and beautiful girls had been browsing their grandmothers’ closets with lots of brown and earthy tones, white tuxedo shirts and pleated pants, the boys looked like they came out of London’s Saville Row, with sharply cut striped and checkered suits, bowties and vests. Read more.

In an intimate space at LitteraturHaus in Copenhagen’s Nørrebro district, Malene Marron presented her simple collection with a laid-back show. Read more.

Copenhagen Unfair is a small, alternative fashion fair and yesterday five young designers showed their collections in one show. Read more.

While AnnHagen has been all about bondage, dark rock, goth and deconstruction, mr. Simonsen is associated with luxury and couture.
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Cheap Monday brought the recession out in the open by opening their show yesterday with models wearing bags, hats, ties and even guitars made out of cardboard. A refreshing and humorous take on the much-debated financial crisis. Read more.

Much like entering the Rick Owens store in TriBeCa, N.Y., the guests at jean//phillip’s exclusive show were greeted with the deep rhythms of warm and glitchy minimal techno, setting the mood for a no-nonsense show. Read more.

The scene was set for a bash on Thursday night when Soulland presented its new show ‘Savage Mountain’. Read more.

Accompanied first by feminine jewelry-box music, the models marched out one-by-one wearing nude make up.

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New York – probably the city with the highest concentration of luxury flagship stores in the world. You can shop in Ralph Lauren’s country club-setting on the Upper West Side or experience genuine British elegance at the Midtown Burberry flagship store.

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After visiting the photo exhibition of Jens Peter Engedal (“Yes We Can”, January 2009) I felt really inspired by his photo exhibition format. The exhibition was based on one single idea, which was thoroughly executed and consequently presented as his  personal statement.

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Embarrasing ly enough, I actually slightly misunderstood the definition of “social entrepreneurship”, but I guess it wasn’t too much of a problem, since my aim was to inspire people in general and to think about entrepreneurship in a different way. Key to my speech: Redefining and perpetuating what I do.

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Yesterday, on Wednesday October 1st, I gave a very short speech at a conference organized by IT Forum Midtjylland. The theme of the conference was “living in a digital world” and the other speakers included the likes of Marc Prensky and Anne Lise Kjaer.

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Today Helle and I gave a short presentation about our website GadeMode and talked about entrepreneurship at the Varde Handelskole og Handelsgymnasium. We told the story about how we started GadeMode.dk and how the project has developed up until today . Our aim was to show that everyone can do a project like this and henceforth, we encouraged the students to start their own projects.

During Scout Festival 2008, I tried hard to catch the attention of the daily press. I felt (and I still feel) that Scout Festival has some really interesting elements that were worth writing about. First of all, we made history by building the first newbuilt mosque in Denmark.

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In addition to being an album by Jesus And The Mary Chain, Darklands is also a brand new fashion store in Berlin, Germany.

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