Nilsson was educated as a photojournalist but has turned his attentions to portrait photography with impressive results. His striking medium format colour images of young ballroom dancers arise from his fascination with the imperfect and immature body and mind of the teenager placed in a world where one must strive for perfection and beauty.

It is precisely this collision between the dancers ideal of the perfect body image and adolescent imperfection and diversity which is so prevalent in Morten's images and makes them so fascinating. The slight awkwardness behind the perfect stances and smiles, the venire of beauty somehow questioned, he catches his subjects immediately as they leave the dance floor after competing.

This is Mortens first London show. He was born in 1967 and continues to work as a freelance photographer in Copenhagen.

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