The Danish Photojournalist and World Press Photo winner Claus Bjørn is showing his retrospective exhibition What The Eye Cannot Forget at DMJX till March 15, 2026.
Claus Bjørn (b. 1963) has worked as a press photographer since 1986 and has contributed to the development of the important for the documentation of both Danish and international events. In 2020, he received the World Press Photo of the Year for an image from Kosovo during the Balkan War.
His photographic work has taken him to a large number of the world’s hot spots, including Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and, the Balkans. Through his camera, he not only registers the external aspects of war and conflict, but also the traces left by violence and the absence of normality in people’s lives. His photographs testify an interest in the human encounter under extreme circumstances and about a gaze that seeks understanding rather than distance.
Claus Bjørn is an educated photographer from the Danish School of Media and Journalism with an internship at Berlingske. He worked at Ekstra Bladet from 1991 to 1997 and then at Berlingske Tidende, where he from the year 2000 also served as photographer in chief.
He has also been a judge at the Danish Press Photo of the Year and is a board member of the Press Photographers’ Association.
In 2025, Claus Bjørn had a solo retrospective exhibition, What the Eye Cannot Forget, at Frederikshavn Art Museum and Exlibris Collection. The current exhibition at DMJX is an extract of the show in Frederikshavn.
Today, Claus Bjørn lives and works in Løkken, where he continues to work with photography as an independent photographer. His work is characterized by a sober approach and a persistent interest in the human stories unfolding in the shadow of world events.
