Nikolai Linares (Danish School of Journalism)
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For the first time in eight years Rødovre Mighty Bulls got to the semi-finals in the danish ishockey first division. Second line player Michael Smith is laying on the floor with his feet up after a bad period on home ground game 3. And coach Magnus Sundpuist lets them know that it was bad.
The Apprentice
Kjeld Jørgen Andersen(center), 19, is the youngest fisherman in Gilleleje. His boss is Carsten Nordahl(right) and the owner of the boat they fish on is Carsten father Jan Nordahl(left). Today Kjeld was in a good mood. And so was Jan. After Jan had talked about the bad weather, Kjeld couldn't stop hi self and said that the sea was only for the real fishermen. Jan being an old fisher himself, had enough and slapped Kjeld. "Don't think to much of yourself!" he repleid, with a small smile.
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Anne Angaard is 20 years old and is one of 43 danish women who in January 2011 went to Afghanistan as soldiers. "It's hard to know what awaits us, but I am excited to be away with my platoon. But if it worth risking my life...? I think this is an impossible calculation."
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t’s in middle of the afternoon and in an old gym in the outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, a small group has met to do what they really like. Suspension. Rolf Buchholz is 51 years old and has approximatly 453 pircings. 94 of the piercings in and around his lips, 25 in his eyebrows, 8 in his nose, and 278 in his genital area. It’s his 79th time doing suspension, where of 45 of them has been in the “coma†position(as shown). Today was one of his longest suspensions. He hung more than four hours. Rolf Bucholz works as a computer scientist and was resently acknowledged by Guinness as the most pierced man in the world.
Center of Attention
Malene Gurevitch, 30, just wanted to say goodnight, but when the upcoming family member suddenly started kicking, she was not allowed to go anywhere. The whole family wanted to feel him and Malene had to wait a while before she could go to bed.
Lovely Pain
In an old ordinary gym in the outskirts of Copenhagen, once in a while something uncommon goes on. Something that some would say is extreme. But those who come here can wait to experience the adranalin-kick that hits them once they are there. And it's not just persons with tattoos all over their bodies who come here to be hung up. It‘s also the warehouse clerk and the farmer. As long as you have skin on your body you can be a part of the group who do suspension.
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In an old ordinary gym in the outskirts of Copenhagen, once in a while something uncommon goes on. Something that some would say is extreme. But those who come here can wait to experience the adranalin-kick that hits them once they are there.
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Suspension is the act of suspending a human body from hooks that have been put through body piercings. These piercings are temporary and are performed just prior to the actual suspension.
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Claus Banche is 46 years old and works as a craftsman. It’s his second time trying suspension. He saw it on TV and just had to try it. This time he wanted to hang like the old Indians did it. It hurt in the back to hang this way and his skin was close to be torn up. However, he’s not in doubt. He wants to try it again.
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Rolf Buchholz is 51 years old and it’s his 79th time doing suspension, where of 45 of them has been in the “coma†position(as shown). Today was one of his longest suspensions. He hung more than four hours. Rolf Bucholz works as a computer scientist.
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Trine Levesen(left) and Daniel Schmidt are in a relationship. They are both 23 years old. Just for fun, Daniel asked Trine if she would be up for suspension. To Daniels big surprise Trine was up for it. Daniel did not think he could skip his own challenge. Trine thinks she’s going to try it again while Daniel is more uncertain.
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Martin Villiam Jensen is 24 years old and is a sales and warehouse assistant. It’s his the seventh time trying suspension and today he’s trying the Lotus position. The first time he tried suspension it was like taking drugs, and it's this rush he still chases by trying different positions. He hopes the feeling from the first time will come again.
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Per Hansen is 35 years old and works in a construction company. It’s his third time trying suspension. However, it is the first time he tries to hang in his knees. After he had seen it on television, he simply just had to try it. Per feels quite high afterwards he has been hanging.
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On a normal day with suspension only 8-10 people are suspended.
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Troels Lehmann just had some hard rock put on the stereo so that he can "go crazy" for some minuttes. Troels is 27 years old and works as a pedagogue in a kindergarten. He has tried suspension 10 times and mostly in the suicide position (as pictured).
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Rolf Buchholz is 51 years old and has approximatly 453 pircings. 94 of the piercings in and around his lips, 25 in his eyebrows, 8 in his nose, and 278 in his genital area. He was resently acknowledged by Guinness as the most pierced man in the world.
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Søren Bredvad is 26 years old and a permanent part of the suspension team. He has tried suspending more than 20 times, beginning in 2004. He is one who isn’t afraid to use the entire space. First he finds the right feeling and then he flies around like superman.
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Angel Rawlings is 29 years old and have tried suspension seven times. She has tried five different positions. She gets the most out of it if she simultaneously hear the song "my own summer" with the band Deftones. The feeling is very intense and she describes it as a mix of orgasm and being in a trance.
The Last Fisherman
Some years ago the fishing culture was a proud part of the Danish self-understanding. But the fishermen no longer fill up the harbors. In Gilleleje nothing is different. The old fishermen are about to stop and there are only a few young people left to take over.
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It's just after five o'clock in the morning and the crew of Lis Nordahl get ready to pull the net up. It's Carsten Nordahl, 35,(right) and the youngest fisherman from Gilleleje, Kjeld Jørgen Andersen, 19, who work on this boat.
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"I would like to be home with the family more often. But that’s life as a fisherman", says Carsten Nordahl.
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The number of fishing boats in Gilleleje has fallen from 58 boats in 1999 to only 25 boats today.
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Egon Tækker (right) is a retired fisherman, but comes every morning at six o'clock at the auction to see how it goes and to get a small schnapps. Jan Nordahl (center) tells him that it isn’t going to well.
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The youngest fisherman in Gilleleje, Kjeld Jørgen Andersen, knows well that there are not many younger fishermen, and it irks him. "It would be funnier if there were more young people at the harbor. I feel a little isolated when everyone else is so much older."
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Today’s catch is sorted while several waves pass over Kjeld Jørgen Andersen (left) and Carsten Nordahl. The catch was just over 40 kg lobsters. On a day like this the amount of lobsters isn't high enough for the amount of work.
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Kjeld has not yet found a place to stay in Gilleleje, but is determined to find something soon. Until then, he sleeps in his bunk below deck.
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A year ago Kjeld finished his apprenticeship as a fisherman. He dreams of being a fisherman for many more years, and hopefully one day have his own boat. But it’s a very expensive dream.
Girls at War
In late January 2011 750 danish soldiers went on a mission in Afghanistan. Here they had to create peace and better conditions for the Afghan population. When one think of a danish soldier, one immediately imagine that it’s a young man. But there are also women. And women have become a bigger and more important part of the Danish deployment. Out of the 750 danes deployed, 43 of them where women.
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Anne Angaard is 20 years old and is one of 43 danish women who in January 2011 went to Afghanistan as soldiers. "It's hard to know what awaits us, but I am excited to be away with my platoon. But if it worth risking my life...? I think this is an impossible calculation."
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It's 8 am and Anne Angaard and her platoon just woke up after a night in a closed pigsty. All have been on watch during the night. Anne, who was responsible for making the duty schedule had put herself on watch from 3 am to 4 am.
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Denmark has lost 42 soldiers in the war in Afghanistan.
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"I just saw it as four months of active vacation when I started in the army. But it was all just so cool. There was a great team spirit and it was also fun," says Anne Angaard(center) who had just completed high school before enlisting to the army.
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"I focus a lot on not asking for help. I want to be able to handle everything meself and I also think that it has helped me, so that I now feel that my platoon looks at me as an important and equal part of the unit" says Anne Angaard.
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The sun rises on the last day of the military training. It's minus degrees and everyone are excited that soon they will be in Afghanistan. Anne Angaard feels more than ready.
The Road to Defeat
For the first time in eight years Rødovre Mighty Bulls got to the semi-finals in the danish ishockey first division. The fans, the players and the club saw the chance of winning it all and they won the first game. But then everything whent wrong. They were loosing, made remarkable come-backs, but then lost on sudden death goals. It was tough for the players. And for the rest of the club. After game six it was all over. The Mighty Bulls had lost 4-2 in games to Sønderjyske, and had to settle for Bronze.
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Goalkeeper Trevor König feels ready after an intense warm-up.
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First away game. â€Now let’s go out and win this shit!â€, shouts the captain from the middle of the huddle. Everybody are ready, but on the ice things go wrong. The Mighty Bulls loose.
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Bobby Hagelin scores a "Sudden Death" goal and wins the game for Rødovre Mighty Bulls. The team is again back in the semifinals.
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Third line player Brian Shultz is in the showers by himself after a game where he didn't get much time on the ice.
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A short break between two periods in game 2 is used effectively
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Goal keeper Trevor König is sitting all by him self in the locker room after a â€sudden death†lose and drinking his sorrows away in coca cola. Everybody else has taken showers and gone home in total silence. It looked like an easy save, but everything went wrong and the opponent Sønderjyske won 5-4 in overtime.
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The days of away games can easely get long. There can go more than 15 hours from leaving home field to they are again back from a game. On theese trips many of the players watch movies, listen to music or sleep.
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On a bench at a rest stop in the middle of Denmark the players eat pasta-salad from the home-field kitchen.
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The smell off sweat is tremendous in the locker room after the game. But whats fills the room more is the mood. Once again The Mighty Bulls loose an away game.
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Deep in to the third period of game 5 things begin to look difficult.
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Forward Michael Eskesen after loosing the final game at Søderjyskes home field. Everybody went quick to the showers and went out to the players bus. In total silence.
Dreams in New Cairo
If you drive out of Cairo, Egypt, in an easterly direction you will hit the desert. But it won’t take many minutes before constructions sites with nice villas rise as far as the eye can see. This is New Cairo. Here many young men have their daily work with building houses, that they them-selfs will never be able to afford. In a small three-room-appartment in the workers living area lives 11 of the workers. Each one with dreams that are very different from the life they are living now. All of the young men from the appartment are from the village of Beni Suef. A city 150 km south of Cairo. They all know each other through family and parents' friends. They rarely work in the same building for several days, but are hired when some are missing a team to cut, carry and set up steel for the foundations.
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One of the 11 young men in the apartment is Walid Miled (right). He is 21 years old and one of the strongest workers in the group. Today he was up at 5 am, but unfortunately already home again at 1 pm. There was not enough work for him and four of the others from the apartment. To the left lies Hamada Ahmad. He is 18 years old.
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The area of New Cairo is 700 square kilometres. Many of the houses being worked on will become villas, which means that those who will live here are upper class. None of the workers think that they will ever have the opportunity to live in such a house.
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It's just after six o'clock in the morning and most of the young men from the apartmentare are eating breakfast together in the apartment's largest room. Today they will be divided into two groups and work on two different buildings.
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Walid puts on his best looks after taking a shower, even though the evening is not going to offer anything exciting.
On a good day he earn between 10 and 15 USD. It makes him really proud that every month he can send money to his parents. He has a girlfriend in his hometown and Walid is sure it's her he will one day marry. And his parents knows this to. If everything goes well, he will have earned enough money to get married within a year. He reckons that it will cost around 5.000 USD.
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Many of the young men in the apartment think it's great to live together. Even though they are eleven. And there is always somebody ready to joke around with each other. "We fit well together and share everything. But we are young men, so our temper can go up. Usually once or twice a week some get in a little fight", says one of the men.
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Nadi Miled (right) is 20 years old and is the only man in the appartment that prays every single day. Walid(left) also pray sometimes, but today he is too tired. They are cousins.
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"I talk to my girlfriend about twice a day. The others tease me a little when she calls, but I do not care. I tell her how much I love and miss her. I dream one day to marry her and live in an apartment with a garden and space to have two children and two horses. And fruit trees."
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The plan is that in 2020 four million people will live in New Cairo.