SØREN LILHOLT (b.1986) is a Danish visual artist and musician based in Copenhagen, whose photographic practice serves as a poetic and philosophical inquiry into perception, embodiment, and presence. He studied at Fatamorgana – The Danish School of Art Photography – and holds an MA in Visual Culture from the University of Copenhagen. His work draws on phenomenological thinking, using photography not to illustrate ideas but to explore how vision itself shapes and deepens our encounter with the world.

Focusing on the subtle, the dislocated, and the unresolved, Lilholt’s images often linger in moments of ambiguity—where meaning is not fixed, but felt. It is a way of asking- not what a thing is - but what it means to see it—to dwell in it. Photography becomes a mode of inquiry and an act of attention: not a means to document reality, but a way to expand it, to reveal the unseen layers of sensory and emotional experience. His approach sees the photograph not as a static object, but as something generative—an image that not only originates in the world but helps shape how we continue to see it. This makes his work a contemplative space, where seeing becomes an active, evolving relationship between image and viewer.

Lilholt has exhibited across Europe, including at the Spring Exhibition at Charlottenborg (DK), Państwowa Galeria Sztuki in Sopot (PL), Fotofestival Łódź (PL), Landskrona Foto (SE), and the Copenhagen Photo Festival. He was selected for the 3rd cycle of the European photography platform Parallel, and his work has been featured in international publications. In 2019, he was recognized as one of Denmark’s emerging photographers at the Fotografisk Center’s Young Danish Photography exhibition.