Photoalbum: 2024, March, Copenhagen
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Background
A few years ago I went on a trip to Copenhagen with my then-classmates to celebrate finishing the education programme we were attending. While much of the nighttime was spent partying, a lot of the daytime was spent travelling around the city, visiting museums, etc. Sadly, a lot of my photos now seem to have gotten lost (probably in a deletion of RAW-files from before I got external storage) but I still have some processed JPEGs. This and the fact that most photos include identifiable people makes this a very short album.
In retrospect, I regret not spending more time talking with the locals and not bringing my camera with me more places. Something I find very intriguing about travelling nowadays, is getting to learn more about how different people from different places view the world. I would also like to help document more of those peoples stories. While Norway and Denmark are pretty similar in there regards, I still find this to be both a very interesting and rewarding experience.
When travelling, I often prefer to shoot two kinds of photos: Those that carry a story with them, and those that depict what we haven't already seen. Travelling with a camera makes me look at the world in a different way. I pay more attention to the details around me, and look in places I normally wouldn't look. The third image is a great example of this. I have manually retraced my steps using Google Street View to Nobis Hotel. When walking down H.C. Andersens Boulevard it is easy to miss this entrance if you're not constantly looking around for things to document - at least that's my experience.
The fourth photo depicts a scene I don't think I've ever seen in Norway. No matter where you went in Copenhagen, the city was made so that you could get there by bike. There were big bike lanes with their own traffic lights, and even elevated foot rests for the bikers right before them. This stands in stark contrast to many other cities where bikers need to share a very cramped space with any other pedestrians. I haven't retraced the location of this photo, but I'm pretty sure it was just some streetâ„¢. Due to my loss of photos, I can only imagine how the dedicated parking spaces for bikes look.
Finally, I want to point some attention to the second photo. We have now entered the third calendar year since the (latest) genocide began and couldn't even get past 1st of January before Al-Jazeera could report of yet another Palestinian child being killed by Israeli forces. It's almost as if everything the cease-fire actually did was move western media focus away from the atrocities since they've been "fixed" now. Do not let them.
All photos shot on a Sony A57 and processed with RawTherapee. ©CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. See footer for more info.
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