The Times photo assignment
Below is the pictures from the exclusive interview The Times in London had with the European Commission President Jose Emanuel Barroso.
The interview was a part of the newspapers main story about the USA and EU relationship and was published in the The Times issue number 70,000 – a world record.
See more here
World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen 2010
Below is some of the pictures I did from jumping horse events at the World Equestrian Festival in Aachen on Saturday the 17 July.
Last time I went there was in 2008 where some of the pictures can be seen here.
Press briefing with NATO Secretary General
The NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at his monthely press briefing
Angela Merkel
We photographers always look for a different way to make pictures when covering events with heads of states. Sometimes we are lucky, but more often than not, we get more or less the same situation as the others, because there is no other possibilities to make it different. What can make a picture stand out [...]
Mandø reportage from the archives
I asked if I could photograph them, and without a word they posed for me holding each others hands. I got happy when I found this old picture today.
NATO Press Conference
Just back from covering the Press Conference held by the new NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen. It will become a monthly tradition where the Secretary General will brief and answer questions from the press. I think he enjoyed his new position, there was something with his eyes and smile.
282 pictures was taken, 7 selected for the [...]
MEPs first day in Strasbourg
It was the first real day after the elections to the European Parliament and it was a raining, but otherwise a normal day.
“Rasmussen III”
Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso joked about the name “Rasmussen” if one wants to become a Danish Prime Minister at the joint press conference with the new Danish Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. He is the third prime minister in a row with the surname “Rasmussen”
The old and the young
Maybe not so special but I do like the picture. It shows the old experienced politician and the young impatient and rebellish politician. It is the two Danish Social Democratic MEPs Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, and former Prime Minister, and the young Dan Jørgensen. They where both elected to the European Parliament for the first time [...]
Greenpeace arrested
Greenpeace held a sitdown demonstration in front of the entrance to the European Union Council building in Brussels. They wanted to block the exit for the Finance Minister, sitting in a meeting inside the building, until they would move the climate issue to the the top of the political agenda.
Police arrested all activists.
Will be updated.
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Spring weather
It was a lovely Sunday and all folks was out in the nature and enjoying their own way.
On assignment at the Presidents office
It is a challenge making creative pictures of politicians so the readers will stop up and read!
2008: EU Summits
I covered the first EU Summit in 1992 here in Brussels. Since then I have lost count on all the summits I have covered around Europe over the years, of these was I the official photographer for 2 different presidencies. This years amount of summits in Brussels alone was 6. 2 more than normal because [...]
