I received the FUJIFILM X-T5 camera in late October 2022, 1 year ago, so I thought it was time to do a proper One Year Long Term review. This 14 minute movie goes through what I love about the X-T5 and the few things I feel can be improved – and it features a lot of stills too from the past year: Do also watch my ‘Music is Life’ movie, I am so proud of this movie, explains perfectly why I love...

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Suspekt is a legendary Danish hip hop group, formed way back in 1997. I have actually only photographed them twice in the past decade, but I knew their music and certainly their status as wild and awesome live performers, for example on the Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival 2015. When Suspekt announced they were playing Parken Stadium in 2023, I thought “that makes perfect sense, they can put on a...

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I look through this essay with the biggest smile and the best memories of a wonderful summer day with Zar Paulo at Northside festival 2023. This was such a fantastic day, one of my highlights of the Summer. Zar Paulo is an upcoming Danish band that released their fantastic debut album earlier this year, but they have been playing together for a very long time, and are a super skilled live band...

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This was one of the best days in a long time, the highlight of 2023 so far. The Minds Of 99 played Smukfest festival, one of the larger Danish festivals and it was just the perfect day where everything went well and even the very wet Danish Summer weather took a break and let us have a lovely dry day in the forest. The day peaked with an outstanding concert by Minds, with a fantastic crowd.

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Depeche Mode is my favourite band of all time and I have without a doubt listened to their music more than any other music in my entire life. My history with Depeche Mode goes back to somewhere around 1984 when the amazing Some Great Reward album was released. I distinctly remember hearing Master and Servant and People are People played on the radio a lot and I was totally spellbound.

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Being back on a big festival stage with my favourite Danish band The Minds of 99 was absolutely awesome! Their 2023 festival tour has a completely new light and stage setup (and setlist of course) making it a really fun and new challenge. Even though I have documented Minds for 7 years now, every setup and every gig is different, giving me new angles and taking away other angles and sometimes it...

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THE 1975. One of the biggest bands of the planet for a decade, but I was a little late to the party. I cannot precisely remember the first time I heard some of their music, probably around 2017-18. But I do know that in 2020 and 2021 during the lockdowns, I just obsessively found myself deep diving into the entire universe of The 1975 and fell completely in love with the band. They are some kind...

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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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