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Judging from actual media coverage, you might get the impression that the major gender inequality issue in Denmark today are the lack of female CEO’s. You might also think that exclusive networks of career women are the vanguard of women’s liberation.
Not in my world. I agree with the words of Bertolt Brecht (in my inept [...]

In the middle of Copenhagen there is a rather posh photo store. Often, when I pass by, I see a small mountain of Holgas in the shop window, sitting between Leicas and Linhofs. FYI the Holga is a Chinese toy camera, known for its cheap plastic lens, false light, heavy vignetting and unpredictable colour rendering [...]

På en måde dør i sidste ende også østtyskernes historie. Jeg føler sommetider, at der dårligt nok eksisterer nogen østtysk historie i dag. DDR bliver kogt ned til to datoer. Etableringen af muren og murens fald. 1961 og 1989. Isolation og revolution. Landet står tilbage som nogle organisationer og forkortelser: FDJ, SED, Stasi, NVA.
Jochen Martin [...]

Do you remember the scene from “The Graduate”, where the main character get’s a serious piece of advice from a friend of the family: “Plastics! Its the future!”. If not, see it here:

Now fast forward to the future, which in the mean time has become the present:

Photograph © Chris Jordan
The picture shows an Albatros chick [...]

7.2 millions. That is the number of people who emigrated by boat from Bremerhaven in Germany to USA and other destinations between 1830 and 1974.

It is only about 4 years ago, that Deutsches Auswandererhaus was opened as a museum of emigration, in the port of Bremerhaven. A visit to the museum allows you to follow [...]

The Adobe Lightroom Beta 3 has been released for download. I’ve been playing around with it for an hour or so, and my first impression is: no revolutionary changes, by a lot of minor improvements. Just to mention a few:

More intuitive import function
Publishing directly to Flickr – not with all the features of Jeffrey Friedl’s [...]