PRISMA is an upcoming Danish band featuring the two sisters Sirid and Frida and they make music with so much electric energy and a good portion of rage, that I rarely hear in Danish music. I absolutely love their music and concerts, I had the pleasure of hearing them no less than 3 times in 2022. I think I first became aware of PRISMA through the radio channel P6Beat sometime in 2021 after the...

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2021 saw The Minds of 99 play Parken stadium in Denmark in front of 52,000 people, the largest stadium concert in Europe since the pandemic. 2022 saw Minds (as they are known) play the largest indoor tour ever in Denmark and then 4 headliner concerts at 4 Danish festivals during the Summer. 2023 saw Minds kick off the year in a different way, playing small shows in Sweden and Norway and ending...

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I love when the stage and light design create a ‘universe’ on stage so the stage itself basically disappears into haze and light. A dreamworld and this is definitely what we are in for tonight at VEGA in Copenhagen! The air is thick with haze and red lights illuminate the stage. American alternative-avant-pop star Caroline Polachek emerges from the haze, with her band as silhouettes in the...

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I previously featured this concert in an essay from 2016 here but I recently had a look back at my very oldest pictures of The Minds of 99 and re-processed a bunch of pictures from this special concert. This concert at Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen was the first time I documented a concert for The Minds of 99, not the first time I photographed them but the first time I was shooting for the band...

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Music is life. Music connects us, crosses borders. Music is transformative. Music is Everything. And I absolutely love documenting live music… Please note: I am a FUJIFILM Ambassador and FUJIFILM sponsored this video. I am so super proud to show you this movie! The project started back in early August 2022 when FUJIFILM Nordic asked me if I wanted to make a movie featuring me working with the new...

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I previously photographed Saveus back at Roskilde Festival 2022, a wonderful concert, but I was very much looking forward to this concert in November: Saveus at Royal Arena, his largest indoor headliner show to date. Saveus’ music is sweepingly epic and grand and very well suited to large scale arena concerts, so I had high hopes for this concert and Saveus and the production did not disappoint.

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If you take a concert and add a good splash of some comedy skits and some dramatical theatrical parts, it might give you an idea of what a concert with the Danish band Hugorm is like. But really, you have to experience it! I have photographed Hugorm once before back in March 2022 and knew their music, so I thought I had some idea of what I was in for and I expected it to be good. I was wrong...

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The Minds of 99 released the entire concert from Parken Stadium in 2021 on double vinyl and streaming platforms today! I am so thrilled and proud of this release. It is really wonderful to see the Photo Team’s combined work featured on this vinyl release with pictures from Morten Rygaard, Malthe Ivarsson and yours truly. This printed physical product featuring the entire live concert is the...

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I don’t often cry during production rehearsals, actually it’s never happened before. But tears ran down my face as Jada performed ‘Not Alone‘ in a gray rehearsal studio with no crowd. It’s that powerful and beautiful. Only a few months ago I documented Jada on the Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival, a concert I will remember forever. Truly in my top 5 of all-time concert experiences. This concert...

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The Dark Side SWIVEL-Screens were taking over the universe. But there was hope, a small group of Rebels armed with X-T3 CAMERAS and tilt-screens fought back and now there were rumours of a new camera that would again bring balance to The Force… “YESSSSSSS. The good old beloved classic X-T tilt-screen IS BACK on the X-T5. And all my favourite dials and buttons are still there.

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After the hugely successful and record-breaking Infinity Action Arena tour in April, The Minds of 99 headlined 4 Danish festivals this Summer: Jelling Festival, Northside Festival, Tinderbox Festival and Smukfest. I was thrilled to be documenting all 4 festival gigs for Minds, it was of course extra special because for all the festivals, it had been 3 long years since the last one with 2020 and...

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First, huge congratulations to Saveus on the release of this album! The release was delayed for years by the corona lockdowns, and it must be wonderful to finally have it released and be able to play it live (check out my photo essay from Saveus at Roskilde Festival). In august 2021 I shot stills for Saveus during a massive music video production by Impuls Film, and one of the stills ended up...

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Documenting Dreams Coming True – Part II. Just like my previous essay featuring Dopha, this is a story of documenting dreams coming true. This time for Joyce, a band that has also had to wait for 2 years during the pandemic to finally play their concert at Roskilde Festival. The members of Joyce are actually all from Roskilde, so I imagine they have dreamed of playing their hometown festival since...

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Documenting Dreams Coming True. I know, that sounds a bit over the top, but sometimes as a documentary photographer this is exactly what I get to witness and document through my camera. It’s such an honour and privilege. My Roskilde Festival had several gigs that were exactly like that, and the first was Danish artist Dopha playing a 9pm peak time slot on the last of the ‘warm up days’ concerts.

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I remember Martin ( Saveus) secretly telling me about this Roskilde Festival concert way back in November 2019, and finally one pandemic and two and a half years later in 2022 Roskilde Festival is able to go ahead with Saveus booked to play the big Arena stage. It felt almost unreal to stand on the Arena stage and think back to that moment in 2019, a lifetime ago. The concert was an epic trip...

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FUJINON XF10-24mmF4 R OIS WR (on my FUJIFILM X-T3) The Fujinon 10-24mm wide angle zoom Mk 1 was first released many years ago, and many people have asked me if I have used it. I never did and for a lot of the shows I worked back then F/4 would be too dark even at ISO 12,800, at least with a shutter speed I could handhold. BUT now there is a Mk2 of this lens with OIS (optical image stabilisation)...

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I’m a believer again Felt so empty but here I stand Ashes and dust are on my hands But I wash it all away before I do my dance Falling off the edge I can’t live to make them all feel better I would fail myself Read it on my face, I’ve been waiting for this day Cause I made my way through hell Take it or leave it I’m back… The lyrics are from I’m Back by Jada and obviously I do not know what the...

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World Building. It occurred to be at some point during the tour that this is what the production crew manage every day. If you ever played Age of Empires or similar games, you’ll know what I mean. The production crew arrive at a near-empty venue early morning (night really!) and literally build a world so that 12 hours later the doors can open, fans can enter and the concert can begin. The stage...

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The Minds of 99. Longtime readers will know I have had the incredible honour and pleasure of documenting this band since mid 2016. Last year, Minds (as they are known) pulled off the biggest stadium concert in Europe since Corona at Parken Stadium. This tour was announced just before the Parken show, originally scheduled for January 2022. The initial tour poster featured one of my pictures from...

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Recently I had the pleasure of doing a 20 minute presentation on a FUJIFILM Nordic webinar, along with amazing photographers and friends Søren Solkær, Jessica Wikström and Pål Laukli. You can watch the whole webinar here. In the version above, you get my 20 minutes, and I have copied my talking head from the original webinar recording and pasted it onto 1080p versions of my slides so it’s a lot...

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