Mohammad Jaafer and Mikkel Hørlyck exhibit at Fotografisk Center

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Mohammad Jaafer and Mikkel Hørlyck are right now showing the exhibition Turmoil of Midst at the Breaking Platform at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen. The exhibition opened Thursday, September 12 and will run till December 15, 2024.

Mohammad Jaafer’s exhibition at Fotografisk Center shows his personal story “We May be Apart” about being separated from his family due to the current civil war in his home country, Sudan. The on-going project started during his study at DMJX in 2023 and 2024. Mohammad Jaafer came to Denmark on a ECCA Family Foundation scholarship to study at DMJX. Shortly after his arrival the war broke out in Sudan. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX
Mohammad Jaafer is currently living in The Netherlands where he is aplaying for asylum. Therefore he had to follow the exhibition opening and listen to the opening speeches online.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX
Mikkel Hørlyck in front of a part of his exhibition at the Breaking Platform at Fotografisk Center. Mikkel Hørlyck exhibits images from three of his stories: “No Man’s Land” (Bosnia), “The Mercilessness Of The Sea” (The Mediterranean Sea) and “Hell’s Mouth” (Ukraine). “No Man’s Land” tells about the refugees and migrants, who try to enter Europe from Bosnia into Croatia. Mikkel Hørlyck made the story as his BA-project in 2021 and won the ECCA-DMJX Photojournalism Award to continue his work about refugees. The award made it possible for him to do the the story “The Mercilessness Of The Sea”. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX.
Exhibition guests at the Breaking Platform at Fotografisk Center during the opening of Mohammad Jaafer and Mikkel Hørlyck’s mutual exhibition. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX
Mikkel Hørlyck in conversation with exhibition guests at the opening reception.
Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX
DMJX students Signe Lægsgaard and Thea Tønnesvang in front of Mikkel Hørlyck’s images at the opening of the Turmoil of Midst exhibition. Photo: Søren Pagter/DMJX

The exhibition is curated by Allette Ngo Sørensen and Katrine Christensen.
Søren Pagter has edited and designed the exhibition and book showing Mohammad Jaafer’s story.
Supported by Augustinus Fonden, The Danish Arts Foundation, Politiken-Fonden, ECCA Family Foundation, Værksted for Fotografi and Vesterbropuljen – Lillepuljen by Vesterbro.