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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:00 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[San Fermin 2012, Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Between July 6 and 14 every year, the Basque city of Pamplona is transformed into a inferno of celebration. Inhabitants of the city, along with hundreds of thousands of visitors from the rest of Spain and abroad, celebrate in the streets around the clock in the 204-hour-long nonstop party known as the Festival of San Fermin. In addition to the world famous running of the bulls, which occurs in the old city for two to three minutes every morning starting at 8 a.m., the festival also offers a myriad old and new traditions that thrive side by side. Music, dancing, drinking, children's events and bullfighting are some of the ingredients that make up this party. The festival gained world renown when American author Ernest Hemmingway published his novel The Sun Also Rises in 1926.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:50 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Headbangers 2012, Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Headbanging is a type of dance that involves violent shaking of the head in time to music, most commonly rock and heavy metal. Dancers "bang" their heads back and forth or in circular motions, making their hair flow wildly.
The violent movements may have health consequences, such as neck pain, headaches and shoulder problems. Cases of whiplash have been registered. 
(Source: Wikipedia)

Three young festivalgoers recount the feelings spurred by headbanging:

"It's about the ecstasy, the ferocity of the music that just becomes one with the body. Metal music is extreme, so your movements have to follow along. This is not just nodding your head a little bit, the entire body has to be involved, it's about the monster inside."
(Villads Hoffmann, who attended COPENHELL in 2012)

"It about letting out energy, all the pent-up energy and rage that has to come out all at once, it's liberating.
(Tobias, who attended COPENHELL in 2012)

"It's just that everything becomes a whole when the music, the audience and the band move to the same rhythm. You can't help yourself, you're just swept away by the mood, and then it's really cool to show the band that you like the shit they're playing. You can worry about the pain the following day."
(Karina, who attended COPENHELL in 2012)

The photos in this series were shot in the summer of 2012 during concerts at the largest Danish metal festival, COPENHELL and at the WACKEN OPEN AIR in Germany, the world's largest open air metal festival.]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Fragments of Youngstown 2012, Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, has become a key icon in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. 
The city has lost 60 percent of its population since 1960, and many of those remaining struggle to survive in a city where few blue-collar jobs are left and where abandoned houses leave plenty of space for drug dealers while also offering shelter for the homeless. In 2011 it was named the poorest of Americas 100 largest cities, and Youngstown is still waiting for the shale gas adventure to turn decades of decay into a new golden era.
It seems like no coincidence that it was in Youngstown that vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan visited a soup kitchen hours after the poor and the homeless had left the place - only to use it for a photo opportunity. 
But it also a city that displays American middle-class life with its obsession with football and filled benches in most churches on Sundays. And a city where years of racial divide is slowly changing into a more natural sense of diversity that can be seen in much larger cities on any given Saturday night.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:48 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[From the Fringes of the Stage, Photojournalist John Tully]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Politics is New Hampshire. Traditionally, it's the first state in the nation to hold the presidential primary every 4 years. But months before major news outlets swarm to quaint New England towns and diners for the state's busiest week in politics, candidates and voters square off on equal levels asking questions and debunking statements. Before candidates have layers of security acting as buffer and seemingly increasing their image of importance, the large field of candidates begin testing their campaign tactics on every day New Hampshire residents. Residents who, in the trial of grassroots boots-on-the-ground politicking, are the jurors. Presidential candidates took to the state as a dress rehearsal with campaign staff, scripts, and American flags as stage-props. This is a look at the year leading up to the voting on November 6, 2012, just outside the mainstream spotlight and on the fringes of the stage that is democracy in America.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:56 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Fenway Turns 100, Photojournalist John Tully]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fenway Park, the oldest ball park in Major League Baseball, turned 100 this year.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:51 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Abandoned House, Photographer Brian Berg]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[And estimate of 6000 house in Denmark are abandoned, left by the former owners. 
Cause of this is growing unemployment and urbanization, people moving from the countryside too bigger cities. 
It leaves behind the rural areas with houses that becomes unliveble and in the end ruins, making those parts of Denmark unattractive for newcomers who want too move away from the city and find a home in a village on the countryside.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:05 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Muslim Pilgrims, Student Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some years ago a good friend of mine, Hamayun Butt, invite me to a Muslim conference to visit the spirituel leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad Khalifatul Masih. The portraits is mainly of people  traveling from all over the world to visit their Holiness in his home near London.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:25 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[The Egyptian Revolution 2011, Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It all started in Tunisia. On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi lit himself on fire as a protest against a system and a president that had denied him and millions of other young people the chance to shape their own lives. In the days that followed, thousands of people flooded the streets of Tunisia, demanding that President Zine Al-Abidine Ben Ali step down. 

The regime tried to crush the revolt, but Ben Ali eventually gave up, and on January 14 he boarded a plane and left the country he had ruled for 23 years.

Eleven days later, January 25, a crowd gathered on Tahrir Square in Cairo. The demonstration was originally conceived as a protest against the police who for decades had forcefully cracked down on any serious opposition to President Mubarak.

Inspired by the upheaval in Tunisia, the call for revolt spread via mobile phones, Facebook and Twitter, and soon thousands demanded regime change in the largest country in the Arab world. A country characterized by poverty, corruption and unemployment; a country where millions of young Egyptians grow up with no prospects of a job and therefore few opportunities to move away from home and eventually get married.

They now demanded that President Hosni Mubarak follow the example of Ben Ali and resign. The president’s response came immediately. He deployed his security forces against the demonstrators – police with batons and guns stormed Tahrir Square, and at least 70 were killed during the first few days.

The president subsequently withdrew the police and made some concessions to the demonstrators. The powerful Egyptian army then announced that it recognized the legitimate rights of the demonstrators and that it would not allow soldiers to use violence against the crowds. Nevertheless, the demonstrators were attacked on February 2, when groups of Mubarak supporters stormed the square and violent fights raged for two days.

The demonstrators dug in, however, and built barricades, first-aid stations and large encampments. They were surrounded by the military and by a country unsure of which side it should support. The atmosphere on the square hovered somewhere between the fear of a massacre and the euphoric sensation that Egyptians could stand in the middle of Cairo with a placard and say nasty things about the president.

Hosni Mubarak spoke on TV several times and gave new concessions to the demonstrators, but he did not utter that final goodbye they wanted to hear.

The public pressure increased, as did the pressure from the outside world and from the army that has propped up all modern Egyptian rulers. At last – after 18 days – release came when Mubarak resigned on February 11. Tahrir Square emerged as the victor of the first round, but no one knows if the demonstrators will achieve the freedom and democracy they fought for in the streets. Meanwhile, the Arab revolt continued in other countries, where people gathered in other squares and demanded freedom.

The photos were taken from February 1 through February 8, when photographer Jacob Ehrbahn covered the events with journalist Bo Søndergaard.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:19 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Go, my beauty, Photojournalist Gordon Welters]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Miracles are timid, fragile beings. Lucas, the child, which no one believed in any more, brought the belief in miracles back into Dana’s life. Friends painted angels. They stroke the restless soul and guard over the depleted body. Diagnosis breast cancer. In Germany alone, 57.000 women fall ill every year, the numbers rising. Most patients fall ill after menopause. With early diagnosis and optimal therapy, they are able to receive a nearly 100 percent chance of healing. Dana is 25, loves and challenges life while feeling the knot under the skin. After breast amputation and chemotherapy she decides for a new life in a different city. And for a son, who ekes out his place in this world, despite medical prediction. A short, a turbulent life – towards death and against time. Nine years later, Dana lies a the palliative care unit of a hospital, somewhere in Germany. She met many people in this other town.
She guarded the most precious amongst them, strung them together like pearls on a string. Sickness often causes loneliness. Dana is not lonely. Which is very rare according to the ward nurses who watch the many visitors in room H438 with benevolence. Dana succeeded in uniting very different people and in creating a circle of friends who carry her to the end and whose single chains support each other. In this way, a unique network was born: the friends meticulously coordinate visiting hours and the daily sleep-over guest, they sooth the dying with massages and surprise her with a cello concert at her own bed. Love fills the room, cloaks it in security and gentle farewell. Miracles astound us. Miracles are rare. Friends too. (Ines John).

I met Dana 19 days before she died and saw her for 12 days. It was her wish, to transport the idea of the friendship-circle to the outside world, to stimulate and encourage aggrieved parties and their companions. The text portions were taken from the corollary diaries of the circle of friends. (Gordon Welters)]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:54 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Ginger Ninja on tour, Photojournalist Nanna Kreutzmann]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Ginger Ninja, a relatively new band on the danish music scene, has been playing more than a 100 concerts during 2010. The four member of the hardworking electro-rock band (Johan Luth, Carl-Erik Riestra Rasmussen, Henrik Hamilton and Rasmus Søby Andersen) finished their touring of 2010  - playing concerts in Flensbourg and Sønderborg.

http://www.gingerninja.dk/]]></description>
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