Between Two Ways of Seeing

Photography meets literature in a live exploration of how stories are told – in between storytelling.

What happens when two different ways of seeing and unfolding reality meet?

This event brings together photography and literature in a shared exploration of place, experience, and storytelling. Through images, readings, and conversation, two artists unfold their distinct, yet intersecting ways of telling a story.

Both artists have had their personal encounters with Belgrade.

Klaus has spent time photographing the city, approaching it with an outsider’s gaze. His work captures fragments of Belgrade that echo something familiar, the moments, atmospheres, and details that remind him of Copenhagen, of home. His images move between distance and recognition, also asking how we find ourselves in places that are not our own, giving space to reflect on how one finds a home in a foreign city.

Morten visited Belgrade a few years ago in connection with the Serbian translation of his book God’s Best Children. His writing emerges from an insider’s perspective, shaped by lived experience and authentic knowledge of social environments. In Belgrade, his work entered a new context, opening a dialogue between local realities and universal themes.

Both artists share a positive and personal encounter with the city. In this event, we meet them in a conversation as they reflect on what drives their artistic and authentic approaches, and what defines their respective disciplines. Moving between the external and the internal, the observed and the lived, the evening explores a central question: how do we come to tell a story, and which responsibility follows with is?

With this talk, we aspire to bring a valuable perspective on the work behind two essential ways of unfolding reality.