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<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>
<category>Allan Alfred Birkegaard Hansted</category>
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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>
<category>Jacob Ehrbahn</category>
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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>
<category>Nanna Kreutzmann</category>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:36 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Flooding in Pakistan, Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of July 2010, Pakistan was hit by the strongest monsoon rainfall in 80 years, and many rivers overflowed their banks. Massive flooding covered one fifth of the country.
According to the WHO, around 20 million people were affected by the flooding, and eight million may lose their lives if they do not receive aid.
At least 1,750 died and millions lost their homes.
Tens of thousands of villages are inundated, bridges and roads have been washed away, and the best agricultural land in Pakistan is under water.
The flooding hit just as the peasants were about to go into harvest. Crops were washed away, many animals drowned and people’s house have either been destroyed or washed away by the water. Next year’s harvest may also be affected. 
The flooding has caused damages amounting to an estimated $ 44 billion and stands as the most extensive natural disaster in Pakistan’s history. 
Currently, Pakistan and the international community struggle to supply the many victims with clean drinking water, food, housing and medical aid. Millions are threatened by malnourishment, malaria, diarrhea, hepatitis and choleara.
After his visit to the country, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted that ”Pakistan is facing a tsunami in slow motion”.]]></description>
<category>Jacob Ehrbahn</category>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:05 +0200</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Hope for Haiti, Photojournalist John Tully]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Doctors and nurses from Midland, Michigan traveled to Haiti following the 2010 earthquake to help with the injured and aftermath.]]></description>
<category>John Tully</category>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:08 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[Medea, Photojournalist Nanna Kreutzmann]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The tragic myth of Medea - the story about the princess who marries the greek hero Jason and ends up killing their two children as a revenge on his betrayal - as a modern opera set in Copenhagen Music Theater. 

The opera 4 VINKLER PÅ MEDEA  is stagemanaged by Lars Kaalund and written by Peter Laugesen. On stage are opera singers Helene Gjerris, Aileen Itani, Andreas Landin and Jakob Bloch Jespersen along with musicians Anna Klett, Jesper Egelund and Frans Hansen. The music is composed by Malin Bång, Henrik Hellstenius, Nicolai Worsaae and Steingrimur Rohloff.]]></description>
<category>Nanna Kreutzmann</category>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:52 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[The difficult birth, Photojournalist Bjørn Djupvik]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Five children, one doctor. One child died, two got severe braindamage, and the two last still dont know the full scale of the aftereffects. The were all born with the same doctor, and had all problems with lack of oxygen during the birth. Their parents are fighting for their cause, and want the doctor removed from the hospital.]]></description>
<category>Bjørn Djupvik</category>
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<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:26 +0100</pubDate>
<title><![CDATA[A photographic travel Essay in tree chapters, Photographer Freddy Hagen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[ETHIOPIA


Ogaden

On travel with Danish Muslim Aid, a help organization based in Copenhagen. Danish Muslims has collected finance to build a well in the Somali-district in Ethiopia. The Somali-district shares borders with Somalia. 99% of the population is Ethnic Somalis. They suffer hard because of the drought. 98 % of the populations are Muslim. 

The conditions in the Somali-Region are alarming. Drought four years in a row makes it almost impossible for their Nomadic existence. The ongoing fight between the separatist organization Ogaden National Liberation Front [ONLF] and the Ethiopian government hit almost every civilian in the region. In 2008 Human Rights Watch published a document that  
claimed crimes committed against Humanity on the civilian population. It also claimed that ONLF committed similar crimes.

Ngo’s and journalists are banned from working in the region. 


Addis Ababa
 
Addis Ababa is the capital of Ethiopia. It's a big city of contrasts. Religion and poverty is present everywhere. I stayed there for fourteen days, walking in the streets….


Lalibela

The town Lalibela is well known for its rock-hewn churches. Religion and poverty is present everywhere believers are praying be the churches.]]></description>
<category>Freddy Hagen</category>
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