BECOME A FESTIVAL VOLUNTEER
BECOME A FESTIVAL VOLUNTEER
Are you interested in experiencing the behind the scenes of the biggest photography festival in the Nordic countries? Join the Copenhagen Photo Festival team as a volunteer and become part of a vibrant and creative community.
Who are we looking for?
Every year, we welcome volunteers from different backgrounds who help bring the festival to life.
Volunteers play a very important part when it comes to creating a unique and memorable festival experience. Therefore we are looking for motivated volunteers who want to join a creative, community-minded and international group, who share an interest in art and photography.
Explore different roles
Depending on your wishes and experiences we offer different tasks before, during and after the festival.
You can choose to interact directly with visitors by welcoming guests, selling tickets, working in the bar team, or selling merchandise.
If you are more into hands-on tasks, you can support the festival team by setting up exhibition spaces and assisting with installations at our main venues, the Royal Danish Theatre and VÆKST at Refshaleøen.
We also offer tasks to help document the festival by taking photos during the festival days, workshops and different events.
Photos: © Jason Corea
Volunteer Rewards
In return for your help, all volunteers receive a festival ticket for all opening days of the festival, so you can experience the CPF on your free days. We also make sure that all volunteers are provided with free food and water during every shift.
Do you want to join the CPF-Team?
The Festival would not be the same without the support of our volunteers.
If you are interested in joining the festival team as a volunteer, you can find more information on how to sign up on our career page.
Photo: © Yolanta C. Siu
Header photo: © Jason Corea
Call for interns / praktikanter
Are you our new intern for this coming fall? If you are looking for a communication, curatorial and event oriented internship – hit us up! We are now open for applications for internships in fall 2025.
Are you passionate about photography, culture and creating unforgettable experiences? Copenhagen Photo Festival offers various opportunities for individuals eager to get involved, get hands-on experience and be part of one of Northern Europe’s largest photography festivals. Whether you’re a student seeking practical experience, a professional looking for a temporary placement, or someone wanting to volunteer, we’d love to hear from you!
As an intern with us, you will help organize the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2026 and connect with a large number of partner institutions and artists. You will gain in-depth experience with event production or communication and work independently on projects regarding the festival 2026.
Join our international team of passionate professionals and students from around the world.
We offer internships for students enrolled in higher education program, recent graduates, and early-career professionals. Our internships are unpaid, but provide a valuable hands-on experience in areas like event and exhibition production, communication, content management, program development and coordination, and project management.
During your internship we recommend that you work at least 2 days a week and to stay for 4 weeks or longer.
If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to get in touch
*and of course there will be LOTS of Danish pastries 🍰
Become a volunteer
Copenhagen Photo Festival is looking for creative, community-minded, and fun-seeking people to join our passionate group of volunteers who are coming together to create an amazing festival experience this summer in June.
Now you can sign up to become part of our engaged team of productive souls for the festival 2023. Whether it is selling tickets, building exhibitions, doing video and photo content or helping out as exhibition host, our volunteers play a central role during our festival in June.
Help us create the largest photo festival experience in the Nordic region
If you like photography, events, culture, art and busy days in an international environment, Copenhagen Photo Festival is the place for you! We’re looking for volunteers who are interested in working flexibly and who enjoys taking on various practical tasks and helping our festival guests feel welcome.
Depending on your wishes and experience, you can take on different types of tasks before, during or after the festival – from making photographic content to help build the festival site. There’s something here for everyone! Please note that volunteers are required to contribute a minimum of three (3) shifts before, during or after the Festival in June. You must +18 years old to be a volunteer.
On top of the inspired community experience all volunteers get a partout ticket to the festival and a goodiebag, with special products and offers centered around photography, culture, art and events.
Read more about the tasks and how to sign up
Help us get better!
Photo: Skabertrang by Aftenskolen Fountain House at Den Sociale Blomsterhave, photo by Hans Vedsted.
We are very curious to hear how your experience of this year’s Copenhagen Photo Festival was? What did you like? What would you like more of and how can the festival best meet your expectations in the future?
As a festival that wants to evolve creatively and organically, meet our visitors in the best possible way and present new innovative exhibitions, emerging and established artists as well as present you with great events in a nice setting, we are always open to suggestions, constructive ideas and new partnerships.
It only takes 5 minutes!
We therefore hope you will use 5 minutes of your time to fill out a short survey about your festival experience. You can also fill it out, if you did not attend. Either way you may have ideas, comments or suggestions for new paths or partnerships for the festival that could be interesting for us.
If you participate you get the chance to win two tickets for next year's festival. We will find the winner 15 August.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Click here for the English survey
Klik her for at få spørgsmålene på dansk
A Big Heartfelt Thank You
Video: Sonia Tomegros Regalado / @noia_de_mon
We want to thank everyone who made Copenhagen Photo Festival 2022 so very special. We are so happy for every single visit to the festival venue and at all the festival partner venues across Copenhagen and Scania – we are grateful you were part of this year's festival!
And of course we also want to thank everyone who made this year’s Festival Center so very special and worth the visit: Our three international solo artists, Hien Hoang, Alexandra Rose Howland and Krista Svalbonas, Tofu Collective’s exhibition at the Space Frame with Chinese artists Luo Yang and Lin Zhipeng, DMJX’s presentation of three photo journalistic talents Jesper Houborg, Louise Herrche and Mads Frost, Odesa Photo Days’ two exhibitions Granny by Olena Morozova, the group exhibition The Thin Line and the Norwegian curator Charlotte Wiig’s group exhibition of a host of female photographers called A Female Gaze and not least the five selected FUTURES Nordic Talents, Iben Gad, Tine Bek, Oscar Scott Carl, Inuuteq Storch and Luna Scales.
Thank you to our generous supporters and helping hands
We are also grateful for all the generous supporters financing the exhibitions: Københavns Kommune, Det Obelske Familie Fond, Creative Europe Programme, Nordic Counsel of Ministers and Værksted for fotografi as well as all the helpful and supportive volunteers and staff that make this festival physically appear at all.
Last but not least we want to thank everyone arranging events and exhibitions around Copenhagen and Scania from the many festival partner venues, the gallery walks and artist talks to DJ sets, sound and image equipment people and all the people engaging with the amazing world of contemporary photography – we genuinely appreciate your flexibility, engagement, good work and happy spirits – we love to make this festival with you!
Thank You! Click here to see all partners and supporters!
Join our 2022 festival team
Copenhagen Photo Festival is looking for creative, community-minded, and fun-seeking volunteers to join a passionate group of photography lovers at this summer's festival.
You now have the chance to become part of our engaged team of 30 productive souls. Whether it is at the ticket stand, building up the festival, doing video and photo content or making sure our guests are having a good time, our volunteers have an important role to play during the 11 days of the festival from 2-12 June.
Become a Volunteer
If you like photography, events and busy days in an international environment, then Copenhagen Photo Festival is the place for you! If this sounds like something you could be interested in, then join us on June 2-12 2022 in Copenhagen. We’re looking for volunteers who are as excited as we are to work flexibly and who enjoys helping our festival guests feeling welcome and taking on various practical tasks.
Depending on your wishes and experience, you can take on different types of tasks before and during the festival. There’s something here for everyone! Please note that volunteers are required to contribute a minimum of three (3) shifts before or during the Festival. You must be +18 y/o to be a volunteer.
Read more about the different tasks below.
If you want to apply, please send an email to volunteers@copenhagenphotofestival.com
Read more about the festival: About CPF
Exhibition assistant
The heart of the festival is beating at Refshaleøen where the centre is the vibrant hub for all our programme activities, events and exhibitions. To create a great experience for our guests and participants and make all work well around the clock, we count on our outgoing exhibition assistants.
The team of exhibition assistants move around to guide the guests, keep an eye on the exhibitions, help the exhibitors and make sure that the place is in shape and ready every day to host our activities. If you are service-minded, at ease with big crowds and like making things happen, this is a place for you.
Info Desk/Tickets Sales
We host and welcome a big number of international and local guests, exhibitors and programme participants, and we want them to feel welcomed, well-informed and ready for their experience at the Festival Centre, both indoors and outdoors. We run two info desks/ticket-sales-points, where a small and dedicated team of volunteers will be welcoming and guiding the audience, selling tickets.
It is your responsibility to inform the visitors about the festival and its exhibitions and guide them in the right direction. If you like having responsibility and you’re an outgoing and service-minded person, we’re looking for you. Good English skills are a must, since you’ll be dealing with our international guests. Speaking Danish is a big plus.
Events/Runners
We believe that good events create a good experience for both our guests and programme participants. We need your attitude and your smile to make our events happen during the 11 days of the festival.
The most important thing is to be service-minded and flexible. Along with your co-volunteers you will make sure that the event runs smoothly, the place is clean and tidy, and whatever help is needed at a given moment. Through volunteering for this position you will gain a lot of experience and organizing social events will feel like a piece of cake after that!
Production Assistants
Our valuable production assistants are helping with all festival preparations in the Photo Centre at Refshaleøen. We need strong and reliable people who are not afraid of lifting or other physical tasks to help build up the festival center beforehand and take it down afterwards.
If you are interested in event/venue production and want to learn what’s needed to make an 11-day international festival, this is a shift for you.
Super CPF Volunteer
As a Super CPFVolunteer, you can take assignments that require more responsibilities and you will play a more important role in our team. You can combine at least six (6) shifts according to your availability and preferences.