Of necessity a physical thing can be given only ‘one-sidely,’ and that signifies not just incompletely or imperfectly in some sense or another, but precisely what presentation by adumbrations prescribes.
Edmund Husserl

I started photographing to fathom visual conflicts, behaviors in represantation and subjectivity.

My work is constructed around a map-like view of reality as a representation of human ideas and experiences.

Human absence creates a stage-like setting that is left open for interpretation. What will be projected into that visual setting is up to the viewer's ideas of how to experience space.

FJORD: How do you feel the Internet has affected the way you work? Have you changed the style of work you do or the way you present your work based on the way the Internet has changed how photography functions?

JENS: That is difficult to answer for me because when I started photography in the end of 2007 the influence of the internet was already strong. I am very used to it as user and a producer of content, but I don't think that is a good idea to adjust one's own style to a tool like the internet. You can get feedback on your work in a very short amount of time and you can use that to find an audience or other contacts that can help you gain notoriety.

F: How do you gain inspiration for your work? Where do you look for ideas?

J: My inspiration comes very much out of the conceptual art of the 60's and 70's. I see or want to see myself very near to philosophical ideas from Wittgenstein or Husserl; and then you can start speaking also about Duchamp... I think that I always start with words to create images and from there, they can come from anywhere.

F: What are some of your favorite websites?

J: First of all, Flickr. This is where I started to first show my photos. It's an interesting place because you can find everything from "high art" to "low art." Other favorite sites are more related to the field of graphic design, which is what I mostly work with. To highlight one other, I want to mention Magnum Photos, which is both in content and design a great site.

F: Do you have any suggestions to help out new and emerging photographers gain exposure? How did you first start to promote yourself and your work?

J: I'm really at the beginning, please help me with suggestions (haha). Seriously though, I think one should find contacts to online galleries like Fjord, Flak, File Magazine, just to name some. Don't be depressed when you hear anything from them and don't even think about changing your style. But don't forget to contact galleries or magazines in the real world. The internet is just a different type of space, it's just a little bit faster and maybe easier to walk around because the work is so easily accessible. That's how I started – first I submitted to online galleries, and then later to the real world. You have to be open. Photography provides you with a way to depict objects and subjects that is so different from other visual arts, its communicative value is what draws me to it.

F: Where do you see your work going in the next year and the future in general?<

J: I would like my work to follow more of a conceptual and compositional path. I've started to work more slowly and I would like to keep being able to focus my time and energy on ideas. I want to continue to extract as much as I can out of a single idea. I can't imagine myself as a street photographer, although I have a great amount of respect for them. The autofocus, decisive moment type of photography doesn't interest me. Instead, I would like to take reality as a representation of human ideas and experiences; I would like to make this more evident in my photos.