Mikkel Hørlyck Photography
Conflict photojournalist and visual artist

We see the entire exhibition as one unified work. About one character. A huge personality, who was completely himself.

As a photographer, I wouldn't doubt a second saying, that I had the honor of photographing a legend. Jørgen? He cheated death. Many times. But he didn’t do it alone. Doctors, nurses and guardians were a great help through the years. They saved him - again and again.

Jørgen Pedersen should have been dead long ago - considering his age, countless diseases and 40 years of drug abuse. I loved photographing him from our very first meeting to the last. He was a scientist of drugs. Freud of the drug environment. Satan’s favorite. A sophisticated mindset and extroverted being. A holy man. A rich character.

The exhibition consists of photographs about Jørgen’s life, paintings of his driving force, his remarkable living room, letters, documents, family album photographs, his clothes and stuff, and a video of him in his right element.

By Mikkel Hørlyck, conflict photojournalist and visual artist, and MCRO Mads Oxholm, painter and artist.