ida kjærgaard

Street photographer, Copenhagen

9

errands

Ordinary trips across town, with bags, umbrellas, and stairs.

Nobody poses on the way to the shops. I followed the small, practical trips people make every day and found them full of gestures I could never direct: a bag lifted overhead, a hand on a rail, a shadow on a wall.

A woman holds a plastic bag to her head on an escalator
A woman holds a plastic bag to her head on an escalator.
Sunlight on a blue door and dusty windows in an old workshop
Sunlight on a blue door and dusty windows in an old workshop.
Someone walks past a mural of giant eyes
Someone walks past a mural of giant eyes.
People walk a narrow street, seen from a rooftop
People walk a narrow street, seen from a rooftop.
My shadow on a painted stairwell
My shadow on a painted stairwell.
Someone carries an armful of blue bags down the street
Someone carries an armful of blue bags down the street.
Someone with a backpack steps into a grocery store at night
Someone with a backpack steps into a grocery store at night.
A pink umbrella in a shop window under the words time machine.
A pink umbrella in a shop window under the words "time machine."
next project → rented rooms