Jan Korgaard – The Fly on the Wall

I work as the fly on the wall.
I notice what others overlook, listen to what remains unspoken, and find patterns in the chaos we call life.

That’s how I find stories that matter.

Et karakterfuldt sort-hvidt portræt af Jan Korgaard, der afspejler hans rejse fra dokumentarist i Berlin til strategisk storyteller. Billedet underbygger fortællingen om nærvær og det menneskelige blik.
Kaffekop på Jan Korgaards arbejdsbord. Den perfekte kaffe symboliserer Storytellerens dedikation til at skabe autentiske og velbryggede fortællinger.

Coffee & Presence

I love enjoying a cup of coffee and a good story together with my boys.

A Perspective
Shaped
by Life

My work as a storyteller, photographer, and documentary filmmaker did not begin in a studio, but in life itself.

As a child, I memorized a small picture book. Everyone else read it once and forgot about it. But the story stayed with me. A stuffed rabbit nobody wanted to buy because it was damaged — and yet it ended up bringing happiness to a child who saw something beyond what was missing.

Maybe that was where it began.
The understanding that value does not always exist in perfection.
But in what we choose to see.

Later came football. Structure. Discipline. The body inside a system where everything had direction. Until one day, I found myself in front of the camera in a TV2 production, playing a version of myself. And something shifted. From being inside the story — to beginning to observe it from the outside.

Since then, I have moved through different worlds. Tingbjerg. Sandholm Refugee Camp. Berlin. The Stasi Museum. The former Stasi prison. Places where people live within systems, and where stories are not always spoken aloud, but exist in the pauses in between.

That is where my perspective was shaped.

Today, I work with film, photography, and podcasting. I move between the documentary and the strategic, between observation and storytelling.

But the core remains the same.

I am not searching for perfection.
I am searching for truth.

I listen.
I try to understand the person in front of me.

I hear what is spoken — and what is left unsaid.

The story begins to take shape.

I choose the medium that can carry it.

And I tell it as it is experienced — not as it is explained.

My Method

My Detours

“Jan is a dedicated man and very passionate about his work. He has given the young men a great deal of confidence by trusting them.”
Tanja Karsten
Volunteer Coordinator, Danish Red Cross Asylum
Anbefaling fra Tanja Karsten, Frivilligkoordinator Røde Kors Asylafdeling, der bekræfter Jans evne til at skabe tillid.
“His pedagogical skills, professional expertise, and reliability make him a highly valued employee.”
Jörg Drieselmann
Museum Director
Anbefaling af Jan Korgaards dokumentariske arbejde fra Stasimuseet.