Erik Refner was born January 14th, 1971 in Copenhagen and was raised north of the city. In his teen years, he traveled the world and ended up in Kibbutz for 3 months in Israel. Upon his return, he became a sergeant in the Danish army. He began working heavily in photography and in 2001 won the World Press Photo of the Year with the image pictured below. The picture above, however, is part of a series he did about rockabilly culture. The photo above has so much texture. The crushed blacks and precisely tuned highlights give the image a graphic novel quality that pops beyond belief. The photo is composed somewhat “front heavy”, giving the image a heavy and dense feeling. The subject is covered in some type of fluid (probably water) and grime which also adds greatly to the texture of the image. All of his images have this very dense, textured, and graphic quality which is exemplified here.
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