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Uden at blinke
Project type
Photo exhibition
Date
2013 - 2014
Place
Denmark, Copenhagen/Silkeborg/Aarhus/Horsens
Role
Co-curated exhibition photos, authored exhibition texts, co-developed the project's digital presence and applied to and secured exhibition placements.
Uden at Blinke is a portrait exhibition of 26 young people from Northern Ghana, captured on the streets of Tamale by photographer Ulrik Tofte. The title — Without Blinking — speaks to the resilience required to navigate life as a young person in a region of rapid social and economic change: to pursue your dreams without flinching.
The exhibition moves across themes of work, faith, family, and childhood, seeking the moment in each portrait where something universal becomes visible — where difference falls away and recognition takes over. These are not images of hardship or need. They are images of individuals: a butcher with a plan, a father living for his children, young people holding the tension between inherited tradition and personal ambition.
Alongside the photographs, two short documentary films follow young Ghanaians as they talk about their lives and aspirations. Together, the portraits and films make the case that storytelling is itself an act of change — that shifting who is seen, and how, matters.
The exhibition was developed by Ghana Venskab and has been shown at Silkeborg Bad Art Centre, Copenhagen City Hall, NorthSide Festival, and festivals in Horsens and Aarhus.
