For whatever reason, Associated Press' photographers does a better job than Getty, AFP and DDP. There's a slight difference all over. One notable is that the AP crew don't seem to use flash in daylight. Check their photos by clicking the links - and judge for yourself. And wonder why.
Today there was a meeting at my daughter’s school, and the message was basically that she was doing extremely well all over the line. Her math teacher even threw in a remark that “in her case the school money was really well spent” which I take a reassurance that we get a lot for out money ;-)
Here's an interesting video about Danish bicycling. Though for some of you it might be like watching flying saucers for the first time. Especially those of you who are considering to get a Suzuki car in the US with free gasoline card!
The video is from Andreas and tell me if you think it's true what an american once told me, that our Danish language "sound like throat cancer" ..?
For more info on the bicycle, see http://www.larryvsharry.com you can get a Clockwork model, a Bullit, a Bluebird '71 and three other fine models. Weight 20 kilos.
Normally when I don’t have something good to say about someone or something, I rather don’t say anything.
Today I will make an exception because it might be an interesting experiment. Not so much from a photographer’s viewpoint as from a citizen’s viewpoint.
Recently I did an article for a Danish magazine with photos, featuring Danish designer Mette Bjerregaard.
Unfortunately, you won’t be able to make much sense of it if I posted it here. But visiting an art gallery today, where the owner oddly enough had read the article and found the message very personal, I felt obliged to convey a bit of the article anyways.
It deals with the dilemma that we strive to become ourselves and experience happiness or fulfillment, yet we feel we were born the wrong place at the wrong time.
The Atlantic Monthly has an interesting and long read about the business of shooting celebrities. It's a tale of lawyers, journalists, immigrants and family members who have fallen to the lowest levels in order to make money on celebrities.
No doubt they are proud of them self and their success in terms of numbers. They brag. It's like when the porn stars meet up for their yearly award show, the same proudness of being amongst the best of the lowest.
And they all prefer to conceal their real names in their pursuit of disclosing the every move of celebrities ... which is odd but at least gives you a hint that they know, somewhere down deep, they're not on a path their mom and dad would concur with.
As some of you know, I don't own a television, for reasons of aesthetics, time and crappy lightning - amongst other reasons. But I can see it on my laptop if I wish to, and the other day I saw this X-Factor which is the Danish American Idol thing that I have seen hyped so much.
This guy, Martin, is a real Justin Timberlake or something in the making. What a natural talent, and only 15 years! Innocence doesn't come cleaner than this:
If you have the stomach, Danish photographer Jan Grarup has a somewhat different MySpace page with extensive galleries from his travels to Darfur, Congo, Rawanda and other troubled areas of the world.
I've never seen so many of his pictures in context and there's some real tough ones in those series.
It doesn't make sense how things are. Yet, when things are good it's because somebody works on making them good. When a country or people are doing really bad don't think it's something that just happen due to the weather or by itself. It's created by someone who doesn't want that society to do well.
Interesting, isn't it? What you can do with digital publishing and the internet, I mean; compared to old fashioned publishing, print and distribution.
A download every 40 minutes of my "Twenty Portraits of 2007" free eBook is a larger 'sale' than most traditional photo books. Because it's digital and because it's free.
The thing I like the best it not having to deal with slow publishing houses trying to decide if they want to publish or not.
Thank you so much for the very kind words, Thorsten. Getting that from a working photojournalist is always a real compliment. :) I started shooting in 2005, and the oldest photo in my uber portfolio is just from 2006. Definitely hoping to be even better in years to come! Thanks once again, and cheers from Indonesia!
Well, you're simply the most talented guy I've seen in a long time ... or longer. You're basically at a level where the only thing you should aim at developing is the message. What do you want to tell with your pictures. And I hope you don't go the "World Press" way with hopelessness but go for a the message of life, spirit and hope.
