West Bank, Palestine. 2009-2011. Palestine is more than what we see in the daily news. Palestine is a place where people laugh, love and raise children.

 

Palestine is a place where people live, in spite of a military occupation. Where the military occupation is a part of everyone’s daily life. Nothing is normal, and in Palestine nothing has been normal for as long as most people can remember. Palestine is exciting, confusing, joyous and depressing. All at once. “Unfortunately, it was Paradise”, is a project about the harsh reality of daily life - and the existing mood of a life under occupation.

 

The psychology of the occupation.

 

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Kurdistan 2009: while the war is still going on in Baghdad, there is a new nation rising with immense speed in the north of the federation.

 

Children’s everyday life in the autonomous region, Kurdistan is filled with high hopes, and a fear of that the peace they now know and have been longing for will not last.

 

This documentary is a part of the graduation project, 'Teaching the World', at Bilder Nordic School of Photography, 2007/09. It’s a project about childhood conditions, and children’s education.

 

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Florø 2008/09: The tradition of welcoming a New Year in Florø, the westernmost town in Norway, is a special one. Locals are spending days between Boxing Day and New Year’s Eve building sculptures, which, in an ironic way, sums up the local events during the past year.

 

At midnight they march through the town, to the rhythmic beating of drums, and end the route by a big bonfire, where they symbolically are burning the last year's events.

 

The streets are crowded with people dressed up in all sorts of costumes, and for the not invited, it might look like a big New Year’s Eve carnival.

 

It's not. It's Kjippen.

 

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