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.
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Photo assignment for The Times 70,000th issue world record
The Times in London sets world record with 70,000 issues with the main story about the USA and EU relationship. I took the pictures from the exclusive interview with EC-President Barroso.
Invisible power
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.
EU Commissioner takes her bike to work
”A bike takes me faster to my destination, four kilometers away, than a car could”.
Video: Music in the European Parliament
The Danish musician and composer Soeren Eppler had premiere on his new song about environment “Me and You” in the European Parliament.
Short video without comments
At the last day of the EU-Summit in March I spend an hour recording video around the European Council building, where the summit took place.
It was done with my digital camera, the Canon 1D eos MkIV. It is not an easy camera to work with when it comes to video recording, so practice is needed.
New report from Eurofound
The latest report from the EU Agency Eurofound just arrived in my in-box. The first from the agency I have seen without any stock- or royalty free photos. All published pictures are done on assignments for Eurofound to match the core purpose of the agency, to contribute to the planning and design of better living [...]
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 [...]
Greece got a deal at the EU-Summit
When covering a EU-summit you never know if you will get the picture which will illustrate the hot issues.
At this March summit the big story was the economical crisis of Greece.
We photographers did not have to worry. The main players in this deal made sure we got the pictures, when they arrived together to the [...]
Danish Connie Hedegaard passed her examen
Incoming EU Commissioner for Climate passed her examen at the European Parliament hearing.
In Danish and Swedish.
The first working day for the new Danish EU Commissioner
Two minutes was all I got for a photo-session with the new Danish Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, on her first working day in Brussels.
Two days after she resigned as Minister for the Climate Summit COP15 in Copenhagen Sunday the 20th. December, were she busy building up her future cabinet.
I was asked to make a picture for [...]
Teaser for Eurofound Forum 2009
Today Eurofound, an European Union agency, published the below small teaser for their conference “Eurofound Forum 2009 – Global recession: Europe’s way out” which is to be held in Dublin in November. I covered the last conference in 2006 and was asked to produce this teaser. The media section at Eurofound supplied the speak and [...]
Exclusive interview with Barroso
Europe is big and the word “exclusive” gives a different meaning when you are told you get an exclusive interview with the President of The European Commission. It’s exclusive, because it’s very difficult to get any at all. When you are among the lucky ones you are not the only one. Normally it will always [...]
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.
We only have one planet and it’s a small one
Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the Europan Commission, talks about climate change and environment in this exclusive interview with the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende. These 3 handheld video recordings for Berlingske web-TV was improvised on the spot after a group interview for different European newspapers. Instantly ournalist Claus Kragh began asking his questions and I [...]
“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”
Danish Prime Minister next NATO boss???
It makes sense for the Danish Prime Minister to take the post as Scretary-General at NATO. When the term is over it is time to find new presidents at the EU and if he have done a good job at NATO he will be a strong candidate for a top position at EU.
The Prime Minister on visit in Brussels where he said no!
Danish Prime Minister denied he is a candidate for any international posts.