A break in the weather and the chance to go to sea


There’s a break in the weather and when its like, good weather all day, we work all night to get the lines ready, the young men will then go out with the older men and they will learn how to do this’ Fisherman, Skopun, Sandoy in the Faroe Islands.
Daniel and the drydock


My name is Daniel. I trained as a butcher here in the Faroe Islands, but I ended up going to sea my whole life. Newfoundland, Greenland, the far north, deep, and cold. I worked my way up to Captain. Now I work on this boat, the little Nolsoy ferry, its just twenty minutes between the islands. I sell the tickets onboard. I’m happy this is my life. I am happy, really.
Anna and Vagna


‘I think it has changed here in the lest twenty years yes, the younger generation has a wider view. In fact even my parents now follow me in a way, for example they use the internet and my mum is on a computer course. My baby Vagna is 15 months old today. I’m so happy with her. But I still have my own life. I study and would love to work in a doctors surgery. I will probably have to move to Denmark to complete my studies, but to be honest I want to live here’ Anna is from Torshavn, Faroe Islands.
Torshavn just before the snow, two young footballers


It was just about to snow. The bird took off heading out from this building site on the edge of town and out towards the Atlantic. I photographed these two boys who were coming back from playing football in the Faroese capital Torshavn. They didn’t care about the cold.
Claude and a floating operating theatre.

I find these two photographs of a young Claude F. Hankins really amazing. Taken on glass plates by photographer Clara Sheldon Smith they show a 14 year old Claude accused of murdering a man who was trying to assault him at the time. There are different reports about Claude but its likely he was born in Alameda California in the late 1890s, it is known he served between 5 and 10 years in San Quentin for this crime and later married, had children and died around 1965 in Seattle. These photographs are quite famous, and they remind me of a book of photographs from the Sydney Police Department called ‘City of Shadows: Sydney Police Photographs 1912-1948′, this is a great set og photographs.

In a photograph by Vo Anh Khannh, a Cambodian guerrilla is carried to an improvised operating room in a mangrove swamp in this Viet Cong haven on the Ca Mau Peninsula (1970) they did this to avoid detection and the operating theatres could be quickly and discretely organised.
‘Maghreb forever…’ Maghreb life in Perpignan, France.
المغرب العربي al-Maġrib al-ʿArabī.
I have a slideshow of my life for the Maghreb in Perpignan here click here for


The Maghreb is the region of North Africa that most commonly includes Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In Perginan in the South of France where I visited recently, the North African Muslim community are confined to a specific area on the old town. A ghetto if you will. They live alongside the Roma population, also living in a highly defined geography. Within this area there are street divisions which mark boundaries between Roma gypsies territory and the Muslim population’s. A small but busy market is the centre of daily activity and naturally the area has the best cafes.

‘I dont feel French. when Morocco play France in football, its Morocco all the way. Maghreb forever…’
Mohomammed Luyckx, a 21 year old Moroccan living in Perpignan and hanging out on the streets of the Maghreb neighbourhood.









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