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Group photos

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:44:45 +0000

Photo: © Erik Luntang

The Times photo assignment

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:04:15 +0000

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

Photo assignment for The Times 70,000th issue world record

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:49:30 +0000

The Times in London came out on Thursday July 15 2010 with it’s issue number 70,000 which is a world record.

The main story was about the relationship between the USA and EU where I joined the newspapers Brussels based correspondent David Charter and his editor James Harding for an exclusive interview with the European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

See the pictures I selected from the interview here

Invisible power

admin — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 09:34:39 +0000

The Danish morning newspaper Jyllands-Posten is running a series on invisible powerful persons this summer.
All of them Danish of course. From Brussels it became the spokeswoman for the European Commission Pia Ahrenkilde-Hansen.

World Equestrian Festival, CHIO Aachen 2010

admin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:08:44 +0000

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.

The NATO Secretary General after the first year

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:42:54 +0000

After one year in office as Secretary General for NATO, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, was it time for Danish media to hear how the first year had been for the former Danish Prime Minister.

I did a small reportage and interview photo assignment for the Danish Sunday edition of Jyllands-Posten and the Danish newsagency Ritzau.So far the pictures have been published in Jyllands-Posten.

See the other pictures I did here.

A small portrait and text on the frontpage on the Sunday edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten

Section frontpage on the Sunday edition of the Danish Jyllands-Posten

EU Commissioner takes her bike to work

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:58:58 +0000

Connie Hedegaard, the EU Commissioner for Climate Action, is a keen cyclist. When she was minister in Denmark and now as a EU Commissioner in Brussels, she uses her bicycle to and from work. To the magazine ”Wheelpaper” she said about cycling in Brussels: ”A bike takes me faster to my destination, four kilometers away, than a car could”.

The ”Wheelpaper” was published in connection with the recent held conference Velo-city Global 2010 in Copenhagen. I was asked to photograph Connie Hedegaard cycling in the Brussels traffic. Unfortunately she could not use her own bicycle. It had been stolen a couple of days earlier. Instead she borrowed one from the commissions own fleet bicycles. The European Commission encourage its functionaries to use them for going to meetings.

The photo assignment went well, with me and her cycling around, making pictures from different venues.

Dobble page in the Velo-City Global 2010 conference magazine "Wheelpaper".

Press briefing with NATO Secretary General

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:11:43 +0000

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

Video – Children of the International Montessori Schools theatre performance

admin — Mon, 31 May 2010 17:45:33 +0000

School children from the Lower Primary, Upper Primary and the Middle School of Tervuren and Hof Kleinenberg at the International Montessori Schools, Brussels, held their annual theatre performance on 28 & 29 May 2010, in the flemish cultural center “De Kam” in Wezembeek-Oppem, outside Brussels.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Other Montessori events:
Concert 2010
Concert 2009

Video in Danish: Hjemløse invaderer Europa-Parlamentet

admin — Wed, 19 May 2010 22:46:13 +0000

Click here to view the embedded video.

Hjemløse invaderer Europa-Parlamentet

Kunstneren Jens Galschiøt ville vække politikerne og tog de hjemløse med ind i Europa-Parlamentet i Bruxelles

Tekst: Erik Luntang

I et lille telt nedenfor Europa-Parlamentets glasbygninger i Bruxelles bor belgiske Claude. Udenfor står en sofa, et bord og to stole, det hele godt skjult. Kun synligt oppe fra parlamentets kontorer.

Inde i parlamentet har kunstneren Jens Galschiøt, Europa-Parlamentets danske socialdemokratiske medlem Britta Thomsen og Projekt UDENFOR inviteret til en ”invasion af hjemløse”.

Søger efter de hjemløse

Men der er ingen hjemløse i sigte, før silhuetten af en mand på en bænk, med en cola i hånden, toner frem i den lange korridor.

Det viser sig, at det ikke er et rigtigt menneske, men en bronzeskulptur i naturlig størrelse. Der er flere bag ham. Livagtige posedamer, mænd i soveposer, tiggere og avissælgere.

Midt mellem alle skulpturerne, der danner en udstilling, står kunstneren Jens Galschiøt. Imens haster Parlamentsmedlemmer, embedsmænd, lobbyister og andre besøgende, i en stor bue udenom skulpturerne.

Senere fortæller Britta Thomsen, at hun er stolt af udstillingen og at den vil være med til at åbne op for en debat om de hjemløses situation. Et andet parlamentsmedlem, polske Adam Gierek, hæfter sig mere ved de livagtige skulpturer og teknikken bag dem. Han sammenligner med de hjemløse inde i byen.

”Det er hele ideen, at folk skal kunne genkende dem fra deres hverdag, uanset hvor i Europa de kommer fra”, siger Jens Galschiøt. 2 år tidligere spurgte Projekt Udenfor, som arbejder for hjemløses kår, om han ville være med. Det ville han.

Sponsorerne sprang fra

Finanskrisen kom og sponsorerne sprang fra. Han endte med at finansiere det hele selv og håber nu hans tretten skulpturer vil blive solgt.

Senere på dagen er der konference om hjemløse. En mand sidder oppe på mødelokalets podium med en cigaret i munden. Han lytter til de politikere og eksperter, der sidder bag ham, mens de taler om hjemløshed. Han har et lille smil på læben, men han er jo også kun en skulptur.

Det nytter ikke

Claude er uvidende om det hele. Han vil ikke interviewes eller fotograferes. Det hjælper alligevel ikke, siger han. ”Journalisterne kommer kun een gang og vil blot have en historie. Den skriver jeg selv i lyset, der kommer fra parlamentet døgnet rundt”.

Assistenten hos et medlem af EU-Parlamentet, mente at vide, at det var en østriger, som havde slået lejr for at demonstrere mod EU. Claude har boet der i otte år.

Fakta:

Jens Galschiøt er kunstner og aktivist med hjemsted i Odense. Han er mest kendt for sine kunsthappenings rundt om i verden, som sætter fokus på det humanitære. Heriblandt Min Indre Svinehund, Skamstøtten og Survival of the Fattest.

Lær mere her: http://www.aidoh.dk/

Projekt udenfor er en selvejende organisation, der kombinerer gadeplansarbejde blandt de hjemløse med undervisning og forskning i hjemløshed og udstødelse.

http://www.udenfor.dk/

Se også en mindre video på engelsk fra samme udstilling: http://www.inspirit-int.com/luntangblog/?p=1348