When looking at Danish artist Per Bak Jensen’s work in the exhibition Near and Far: Landscape Photographs by Per Bak Jensen, curated by Barry Phipps – particularly the monolithic rocks and icebergs in Greenland – it is tempting to draw a parallel with Nordic landscape painting, and its evolution from the heroic, romantic wildernesses of the mid 1800s to the dreamy, inward-looking mental landscapes of the turn of the century. However, there is something altogether more intriguing about the way Bak Jensen uses the camera lens to impose an order on the landscape, the precise way the subject is framed, the stillness of the image and the interplay between horizontal and vertical planes. - See more at: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/blog/near-and-far-landscape-photography-per-bak-jensen/#sthash.k0SecSHv.dpuf