„I have worked a lot on this idea that my work needs to be truthful, and when I have been teaching, I have kind of preached that, whatever it is that you do, always ask if what you’re doing and what you’re expressing is genuine."
Adam Jeppesen (born 1978 in Kalundborg, Denmark) is a Danish photographer and visual artist who lives and works between Copenhagen (Denmark) and Maldonado (Uruguay). He is known for his quiet, meditative visual language and his strongly material-based artistic practice. Jeppesen’s work moves fluidly between photography, sculpture, and installation, often created through slow, analogue processes such as photogravure, cyanotype, and anthotype. Central to his approach are themes of impermanence, trace, chance, and the slowness of artistic production.
Jeppesen first gained international recognition with his major series Wake (published by Steidl in 2008), and has since exhibited widely at institutions such as FOAM (Amsterdam), C/O Berlin, the Denver Art Museum, Museo MAR (Argentina), and regularly in galleries in Copenhagen, London, Paris, and Miami. His works are held in several public collections including the Danish Arts Foundation, the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, and the Denver Art Museum.
A more recent body of work, the Tanks series, marks Jeppesen’s ongoing expansion of photography into sculptural space. In these works, cyanotype-printed silk is suspended in glass tanks filled with mineral oil, creating delicate, atmospheric objects. The Tanks explore ideas of preservation and dissolution, photographic abstraction, and the interplay between light, image, and materiality.
Jeppesen deliberately maintains a quiet, process-driven studio practice, often working on projects over extended periods. His art is not only a visual encounter but also a physical and temporal experience – a slow, meditative dialogue with the medium of photography.
„I have worked a lot on this idea that my work needs to be truthful, and when I have been teaching, I have kind of preached that, whatever it is that you do, always ask if what you’re doing and what you’re expressing is genuine. I’ve found that by embracing Wabi-sabi, and many of the concepts that lie within that, being the embrace of imperfection, and the consciousness of the ephemeral, and that nothing is to last, and everything is in constant change, I could resonate so much with that.”