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The Funeral of Liviu Pop.
The mother and wife of Liviu Pop are being comforted by friends and family minutes before they say their final goodbyes.
Liviu Pop was murdered by the mafia on the 16th of October 2019 when he was patrolling the forest. During the last couple of year’s more than a 100 forest activists and rangers have been assaulted, and 6 have been killed in the fight for preserving the forest.
Liviu Pop was 30 years old, and he leaves a wife and three girls behind him. Over 300 people attended his funeral. Rogoz, Romania. October 19, 2019
Illie Bucsa,35, (picrured) and his brother Dumitri, 29, reported the illegal logging to the authorities in 2019. Shortly after, 10 men with baseball bats attacked them in a forest close to their home. A few weeks before the violent assault, the two brothers experienced the mafia's methods for the first time. In the backyard fish pond, all their fish had been killed with poison. Moldovita, October 13, 2019
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First Day of School After The Summer
The School students at Skovlunde public school from second grade Liva Maria Ferd Nielsen (to the left), Caroline Manager Mouritzen (middle) and their classmate enjoying a break at the first day of school after the summer holiday. The three friends are happy that the restrictions under COVID-19 have eased up after the holiday. "Now we can play all over", says Liva.
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Ozzy. Vulnable to COVID19
Ozzy Seide-Blomsterberg, almost 4 years old, suffers from a periodic fever syndrome, which means that he consistently becomes ill with a fever approximately every five weeks. When he was 2 1/2 years old, he was diagnosed with an immune deficiency. A defect that causes his immune system to not produce enough antibodies and causes infection of the respiratory system. His condition makes him sincerely valuable to the COVID19 virus.
Due to the pandemic, Ossy and his parents have been home for several months.
“The is not much we can do about it, but we have moved closer together as a family, and I have gotten to know my son better. I would not have been without it ", says his mother Rikke holding her son's hand.
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12,000 kids left football
Boys under the age of 13 have just finished training in Marienlyst Football Club in Odense, Denmark. During the last 6 years 12,000 kids have left the football clubs in Denmark due to an increased focus on results.
Green Gold
Romania is home to the largest virgin forests in Europe, but during the last 30 years, it has been abused fiercely. Since the fall of communism, large areas of land were given back to their rightful owners. The logging industry evolved, and since the late 1990s and up until now, deforestation and illegal logging has been a huge problem in Romania.
Today the mafia controls the industry, and they suppress anyone, who tries to fight against the illegal logging. The local communities in Northern Romania are affected by the conflict around the forest. People live in constant fear of what will happen if they don’t obey the mafia, and yet local activists and forest rangers still risks their lives in the fight for preserving the forest.
According to Greenpeace, the Romanian state loses around € 1.5 billion a year to illegal logging. Each year, 18 million m3 of timber is allowed to fell, but in reality, more than 38 million m3 of timber is felled. Tree exported to the European market and used by big companies like IKEA and others, leaving the largest virgin forest in Europe out of control to a corrupt and violent industry.
Romania, October 2019
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Green Gold
A large group of forest rangers has shown up to their colleague Liviu Pop’s funeral. He was murdered by the mafia on the 16th of October 2019 when he was patrolling the forest. During the last couple of year’s more than a 100 forest activists and rangers have been assaulted, and 6 have been killed in the fight for preserving the forest. Rogoz, 19. October 2019
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Green Gold
A small wood factory in the village of Moldovita. The village is located in the northern part of Romania close to the forest. There are about 5000 inhabitants, and almost everyone is somehow involved in the logging industry, whether they want to or not. Moldovita, October 15, 2019
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Green Gold
Bloodstains from the crime scene near the village of Rogoz. On the 16th of October the local forest ranger, Liviu Pop, was killed by three men in the woods. He had received a call about illegal logging and went out to see it for himself. When he arrived three men assaulted him, drove on him with a horse carriage and shot him three times with his own weapon. Rogoz, October 19, 2019
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Green Gold
The mother and wife of Liviu Pop are being comforted by friends and family minutes before they say their final goodbyes. Liviu Pop was 30 years old, and he leaves a wife and three girls behind him. Over 300 people attended his funeral. Rogoz, Romania. October 19, 2019
Story: Green Gold
Green Gold
The mother and wife of Liviu Pop are being comforted by friends and family minutes before they say their final goodbyes. Liviu Pop was 30 years old, and he leaves a wife and three girls behind him. Over 300 people attended his funeral. Rogoz, Romania. October 19, 2019
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Green Gold
On Illigal logging in Romania. 2019
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Green Gold
Illie Bucsa,35, (picrured) and his brother Dumitri, 29, reported the illegal logging to the authorities in 2019. Shortly after, 10 men with baseball bats attacked them in a forest close to their home. A few weeks before the violent assault, the two brothers experienced the mafia's methods for the first time. In the backyard fish pond, all their fish had been killed with poison. Moldovita, October 13, 2019
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Green Gold
A local mann from Moldovita working in the tree industry.
Moldovita, October 2019
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Green Gold
On Illigal logging in Romania. 2019
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Green Gold
The two local activists, family father Cornell Mortogan and his friend Giorgio, inspect the forest around Moldovita for illegally cut trees. Often healthy trees are felled illegally instead of the marked diseased trees.
October 2019
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Green Gold
The local activist’s Cornell Mortogan (48) and his brother Costel (58) document the illegal logging. A well-known method is to throw the roots of the tree’s deep into the forest, called ‘Wooden Graveyards’. “When I was a small child, I saw trees the size of temples. Almost 40 meters high. You don’t see that anymore. I want my children to grow up in a forest, not a desert. That’s why we fight illegal logging”, says Cornell. Near Moldovita, October 13, 2019
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Green Gold
A truck is driving down the mountainside close to the town of Borsa. The trucks have official papers on how much wood they are allowed to bring from the forest, but many of them do not comply with this. According to Greenpeace, the Romanian state loses around 1.5 billion Euros a year to illegal logging. Maramures, October 17, 2019
The Life Around Green Gold
About half of young people between the ages of 16 and 34 have already made plans to leave Romania. Most of them are attracted by the higher wages offered by companies abroad.
About 3.4 million Romanians have left the country in the ten years since its entry into the EU in 2007, a huge proportion of a population that now numbers about 19.5 million. According to the Population Reference Bureau, the country’s population is expected to sink by over a fifth in the next 30 years. This Would be the steepest population drop in the world. A brain drain that is highly problematic for the development of Romania and leaves the youth with a unsecure future for themselves.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Nistor Maria (16) and (to the right) and her high school friend in front of their local school in Moldovita. When they graduate from highschool they both want to go abroad or study at a bigger city in Romania.
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The Life Around Green Gold
The local high school in Moldovita.
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The Life Around Green Gold
A local restaurant in Moldovita. The town of 5,000 inhabitants have a pizzaria and this local restaurant.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Emmy Mortogan (13) wants to move away from Moldovita. He is the son of the local doctor and forest activist, and he dreams of going abroad to study and work. For now, his grades in school is one of his biggest concern so he can get into the right colleges and universities in the future.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Danialle (18) and Mihail (23) in their home in Moldovita. They got married 4 momths ago and 7 months aga Daniella gave birth to their first child Traian.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Main street in Moldovita.
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The Life Around Green Gold
A local boy cutting wood in Moldovita. he village is located in the northern part of Romania close to the forest. There are about 5000 inhabitants, and almost everyone is somehow involved in the logging industry.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Ana (in the front) is visiting her younger sister during her vacation from her life abroad. Years ago she left Moldovita to study abroad and now works with communicaiton in Geneve, Switzerland, where she married and created her own family.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Cosmin Bosutar (17, to the right) on the football pitch with his friends. Last year the local club stopped the weekly training sessions for the boys since there were not enouth people who attended the training sessions. The small town of Moldovita, like many other rural areas in Romania, experience a decline of inhabitants since many choose to move to bigger cities or abroad.
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The Life Around Green Gold
High school students are hanging out at one of the central streets in Borsa close to the border of Ukraine. The logging industry of the forest controled by the mafia is big bussiness here. Asked about their future the group og high school students answer that they want to create a better future for themselves.
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The Life Around Green Gold
Dana (21) from Moldovita married Pavel (29), a farmer from a nearby town, the day before. This morning they are buying groceries at the local supermarked.
Story: The Life Around Green Gold
The Life Around Green Gold
The rivers in Moldovita are used by the local mafia to dump big roots of the illegal tree they cut in the forest. The river will make the illegal tree disapear magically as one local activist ,fighting against illegal logging, said. “The authories are turning their blind eye to it”.
The Renewer of Childhood Memories
A portrait of the famous garden Tivoli in Copenhagen during COVID19 which has created economic challenges for the 176 years old amusement park. Due to the pandemic the director, Lars Liebst had to dismiss 233 employees. He describes it as the worst day in his life but adds that Tivoli will always have to renew itself. The director sees the old garden as a renewer of childhood memories.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
People standing in line for one of the roller coasters. waiting for up to two hours.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
In the interwar period Tivoli got competition from the intertaiment industry like TV and radio. Tivoli responded by introducing slot maschines and the newly invented radio car.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
A young couple standing in front of a slot machine.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
Minutes before the gardens closes a young couples are looking at one og the old roller coasters.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
Louis Stendrup and Ella marie Roth, both 17, in the green garden. Due to a two months lock down of the park the plants are now more wild than normal.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
The Demon was introduced in 2004 by the Danish Queen, and is one og the most popular attractions of the park. COVID19 has made the rolloar coaster more quiet than usual.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
All employees have to wear a protective mask when working due to COVID19.
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The Renewer of Childhood Memories
Guests using a mouth mask under a ride. This is an obligation to do.
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Our everyday lives will not be the same again in the near future. “There will be a before and after the Corona crisis”, says the Prime Minister. I turn off the screen and I am struck by the feeling that it can all be just the same. The list of projects I should do grows ever longer. Instead, I open the computer and watch another episode about World War II. Here the enemy is concrete and possible to see.
Story: Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Our everyday lives will not be the same again in the near future. “There will be a before and after the Corona crisis”, says the Prime Minister. I turn off the screen and I am struck by the feeling that it can all be just the same. The list of projects I should do grows ever longer. Instead, I open the computer and watch another episode about World War II. Here the enemy is concrete and possible to see.
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Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
I stand in line at my local supermarket. On the floor, there are red plastic stripes with the words “Keep Distance”. At the back of the queue, I hear a cough. It creates an avalanche of glances and hurried steps away from the man, who looks around apologetically. I look at the hand sanitiser, which is in front of the clerk. A transparent plastic plate separates the clerk from us. I think of my father with a bad heart whom I haven’t seen since the coronavirus broke out. I want to get out of here soon. Into a new world made up of people as potential sources of infection. A dystopian reality, for which no one knows the expiration date yet.
Story: Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Our everyday lives will not be the same again in the near future. “There will be a before and after the Corona crisis”, says the Prime Minister. I turn off the screen and I am struck by the feeling that it can all be just the same. The list of projects I should do grows ever longer. Instead, I open the computer and watch another episode about World War II. Here the enemy is concrete and possible to see.
Story: Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
In Denmark, we commend ourselves for ‘controlling’ the crisis. The Prime Minister commends us for showing social spirit, but with a raised index finger to endure onwards. So, we listened to what the authorities said and kept a distance from each other. We are together, but separately.
In the US, the price of crude oil plummets. Donald Trump is openly advocating for spraying disinfection gel into the human body as a way to disinfect it from the inside out against the virus. The price of crude oil has now fallen so much that it costs money to get rid of the oil barrels because nobody consumes anything. The wheels are stationary. Society has stalled.
Story: Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
They say the economic crisis will be worse than during the financial crisis of 2008. In Italy and Spain, up to 1000 people a day die to a corona related death. There are not enough respirators for everyone. At home, there are empty beds for corona patients. Perhaps the strategy has almost worked too well.
I buy extra soap and a hand gel for the apartment and tell my flat-mate that he must remember to wash his hands as soon as he comes home. He says he has been invited to a birthday where they tend to be quite affectionate after a few drinks. He leaves.
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Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
One morning, Kåre Mølbak, the director of the Danish Serum Institute, says that we must keep a social distance for at least another year. In the evening on Deadline (DR2), the chair of the Danish Psychologist Association, Eva Secher Mathiasen, criticizes the term for our all-new rule of ‘social distance’. So- cial we must be. It is a basic human need that will lead to a col- lective depression if we do not have social contact over time, and this is understood by the chairman on the television.
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Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
On the other hand, we must keep physical distance in order not to infect one another - be social at a distance. So our op- tions are either online or together under 10 people, with 2 me- ters between us. For how long, no one knows.
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Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
I cycle in the rain. Heavy rain. On the way home from the campfire at Amagerfælled with a small group of friends. We talked about dreams. What is important to us in life. About the future. With children, how many or without. Girlfriends, monogamy or not. The simple life. About being happy with what you have and where you are. I’m talking about wanting to live in a country other than Denmark.
Story: Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
Denmark Will Not Be As We Knew It
It feels like the first summer rain, even though we are only in the month of April. The smell of warm air being broken by heavy drops. I’m soaked. I feel like a poet on speed with no place to go. As a spectator to a world where it seems abstract that everyday life can ever be- come like before. A world where it is allowed to hug my father with bad heart again.