So Saturday I went up to the demonstration that I’ve talked about earlier. The activists that joined up, tried to cut open the fence that surrounds the camp to set focus on the problematics on this issue. Asylum seekers that spend a lot of time in the camps and the refused that are to return to unscented futures were but some of the headlines of the day. A thousand activists gathers at a train station three kilometers away. The first part was peace full, walking trough the forest roads, very little police in sight and the normal screaming and shouting.. No big deal.
When we arrived at the asylum center, an iron ring of police, police cars and trucks, and barricades that were placed in front of the center were present. When I say we, I mean the activists and us photographer. Everyone knew that there would be a big police presence. The activists had written online what they planned on doing, so everyone were ready. This seams to be the style these days; giving everyone a notice in advance.
It was a great day, not only a good photo opportunity but also a cause I feel like following for a while on. This is some of the pictures I got from this bout.
Published on October 27, 2008 2:09 am.
Filed under: Photography Tags: activist, demonstration, police, refugee, teargas
While doing some late night photo editing I stumbled over this very busy picture. Its must be the charm in the homemade look that smears my eyes. Nothing much more to say about this.
On another note, I just learned today that there will be some action going on at the ‘Sandholmlejeren‘ that I mentioned below in my abundance post. A group of activists will try and cut the fence and make some trouble, in favor of the refugees inside of cause. I’ll will be there all day with my camera ready for some nice shots. Knowing the police here they will be taking no chances, and this reminds me that I need to get a new holder for my press pass so I wont get into trouble myself. This all goes down on Saturday.
Published on October 21, 2008 2:08 am.
Filed under: Photography Tags: activist, police, refugee
Today I went to two different events. One was more of an event then the other, but never the less it made me see two different definitions of the word “abundant“. We started out in the suburbs of Copenhagen at a dog show hosted by a Danish dog magazine. It was vendors selling biscuits, collars, dog couches and handbags with dog motives. In the center there where a stage with dogs being judged and what ever else you would expect. After that we headed out to a Red Cross refugee camp north of Denmark, ‘Sandholmlejeren‘. Every Sunday for the past year a group of elderly Danes have been demonstrating outside because of the poor conditions of especially the children in the camp.
Both show just how much wealth we have here, both monetary and humanitarian. While some spend all their free time grooming pets, others work towards improving the living conditions of refugees in Denmark. At the dog show we got handed a flier from a dog dentist, at the camp we got lyrics to a song that was to be sung at the end of the demonstration.
Here is 4 collages that puts everything together.
Published on October 19, 2008 8:22 pm.
Filed under: Photography Tags: demonstration, dog show, refugee
I’m almost done with the pictures for Scanpix. It’s dead boring to do, but it seams that all fun things comes with a bunch of boring stuff too. Photography is no different ;-(
Picture above is Flora is looking in the fridge, for something to eat.
Published on October 18, 2008 3:51 pm.
Filed under: Photography Tags: Flora, meta data, scanpix
It was my birthday yesterday. We had a small dinner at my parents house. A few presents and a lot of cake, just the way I like it. Actually we have more cake left, so I have something to look forward to today also. To cool down I have been spending some time at my parents house. They are soon leaving for Syria so I might as well spend some time with them before they leave. It’s a slow pace up here in the country side. Going on walks during the day, doing some meta data on a bunch of pictures I’m going to hand over to Scanpix on Monday and then spending the night playing my favorite computer game, is more or less what goes on here.
I sure hope Scanpix will be happy with the Syria pictures. Would be nice to sell a few there. The exhibition is going okay. I went by with a friend of mine to give a personal tour, and to make sure everything was as it should be. It was. I’ll soon be uploading the photos so you can see them here, I’ll do it when they are taken down from the walls of the Culture Center.
A few days ago I bumped into the journalist from Al Khabar, who interviewed me. He had a copy with him of the newspaper I was in. It was in Arabic so my farther translated it to me. It turned out that he like the pictures and the story behind them. He thought they touched the problematics in a good way. If you can your welcome to read it here.
The picture above is from the lake close to my parents house. It’s a nice walk down there.
Published on October 17, 2008 8:28 pm.
Filed under: Daily life, Photography Tags: interview, meta data, relaxing, scanpix
When I need some fine cooking and another place to plug in my MacBook Pro, I spend some time with my parents. They don’t have all that much to do. Keeping the garden from taking over the house seams to be the primary undertaking.
Published on October 12, 2008 9:34 pm.
Filed under: Daily life Tags: home cooking, parent
One thing I sometimes do, is go for a nice walk around town with my good friend Bjarke. He studies architecture, so he enjoys taking pictures of buildings. I kinda like people on my pictures. So the best picture of they day is usually of him.
Published on October 11, 2008 1:29 pm.
Filed under: Daily life Tags: building, walk
At the opening of my exhibition I got asked a lot of questions about the story, the people and also some concerning the technique used. This last part is not an irrelevant thing, it has a lot to do with how the pictures come out. But I always feel that there are so many other questions you could ask that would be more interesting; to me that is. I know there are so many who feel that the method is very important. This is certainly not to slack anyone off, I think the entry into photography is something that is personal. The way I go about it is with very little knowledge of, lets say the chip inside my camera. I know it is of very high grade, and that is really all I need to know. The same goes with my glass. They are really nice and I love working with them, but the technical specifications are not so important to me. This is also why you wont find me going on and on about gear, upcoming new stuff that I want, etc. It’s not that I’m not a gear junkie like anyone else, I just don’t like talking about it.
When I started out I was the opposite, always talking about Mpix and read speed on the SD card’s and so on. I think I shook it off me when I found out that most of the people don’t really care about it. Most don’t even know what its about. They just see a picture and either they like it or not. While the pictures for my exhibition were being hanged on the walls on the culture center one of the people working there came by to see how things were going. After we were done he wanted to show me some of his photo work. It’s always interesting to see what others are working with, so I went with him to have a look. They were art photos and with every flip of the page he added, “This was done with no photo-shopping”, and I must say he spoiled the experience.
The picture above is of the Citadel in Aleppo in Syria, and was done with a lot of Photo shopping,
Published on October 10, 2008 2:42 am.
Filed under: Photography Tags: aleppo, technique
