https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/single-photographs-avenue daily 1.0 2026-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694618817773-D179MJ3ZJA6QMNYWAG6T/Ramallah-hemsidan2.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694619078329-HOAKBUSGVTYTOZTSO5GJ/Baghdad%2Bcheckpoint-hemsidan.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694767335856-JYZRQ7Y84CUW3HZOIWOM/Haiti_19jan_Leogane_Fabienne-1360.jpg Single photographs - Haiti_19jan_Leogane_Fabienne-1360.jpg Leogane, ruiner, kista, mc-budet Peter som ska köra kistan till Melot. Han stannar i en korsning och frågar efter vägen.Familjen som spikar upp ett temporärt skydd att bo i mittemot kyrkan i Leogane (pappan spikar på taket) heter:Pappa Neva VirgilMamma Rose Marie VirgilGrannens barn heter Marie ClaireFabienne, 15 år dödades av polis, plundringPappa heter Osam CherismaMamma Amand Clecysyster Samantha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694767818837-THU0QQ369RW34Y8SR7H3/Lebanon+Beirut+barbed+wire.jpg Single photographs - Lebanon Beirut barbed wire.jpg Beirut. After the assassination of Rafiq Hariri. On the verge of chaos. When the pro-syrian government outlawed demonstrations following the assassination the tension rised significantly in Lebanon. The fault lines of the lebanese society still run deep. But for once the normal syrian way of doing business did not work. They killed the wrong man, and the people were not scared into submission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694768227209-LNUV1KAP5ZLHT7UDVUBP/Congo+war.+play+bagjpg.jpg Single photographs - Congo war. play bagjpg.jpg Flyktinglägret Kibati utanför Goma myllrar av barn. Här bor 65 000 människor på en svart, hård härd av vulkanisk sten. Det är smutsigt och eländigt. En liten flicka har hittat en överbliven platspåse att leka med. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580226871819-7Q00GFQYP1NZPBSPMV44/Afghanistan012.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694892626924-HTHSXZQLK9R2CU6DKF00/Idomeni-eld-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Idomeni-eld-ppt.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694893014016-VL406X4B2PC22ZBDJO42/Kongokrig-fattig.jpg Single photographs - Kongokrig-fattig.jpg Flyktinglägret Kibati utanför Goma myllrar av barn. Här bor 65 000 människor på en svart, hård härd av vulkanisk sten. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694619291726-1C3N66YTM0N5E8D28II6/Ukraina+hemsidan.jpg Single photographs Foto: Paul Hansen DN https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456869971895-A5SQFVQP8TDLHDK76R4P/11.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456944933692-TOA1PP8PC846S793GKKD/49.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456851022917-I14CZYTKH20F3NT8F5T0/4.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456865071576-9LJLBGX0FSTBTYEQNUIM/25.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456785006090-WSZH5IFVLDISGJ3LL92P/77.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439936989-QTCAW6XB1CT3D8QVSIVK/Fo%CC%88rsto%CC%88relse010+2-3.jpg Single photographs Arkitekten Habib Ghaddar jobbar p medan medhj‰lpare fˆrsˆker Âterfinna hans arkiv och dataminnen i ruinerna av det som en gÂng var hans kontor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/e472834a-6430-4d7d-af3e-e28fbfcf9804/Siliva+insta.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/7460c0cf-2525-4102-93ec-823fa0274bd0/Marjas+bro%CC%88llop.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/695430c6-2254-460f-bb93-1d047dbe02a8/Tuzla+sorg-tweet.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/47268a92-7fc4-406d-a1ec-e764de5be5e4/Clinton.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/4b655fb8-6bbf-4147-bd14-d566f924e86f/Lotta+is+dead.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Stockholm, 2003. Lotta Roth’s final journey to the brittle noise of cutlery from a local lunch restaurant in the Old City. It was almost inevitable. After twentynine years as a drug addict her body finally could not take it anymore. When this photograph was taken - the mortality of drug use in Sweden had increased with more than 220 % the last eight years. Lotta Roth became yet another number in the statistics of the dark side of society – and a reason why I don’t do stories on drugrelated issues anymore. You get to know the person behind the illness, care for them – and they die. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c956dc3f-da9e-4873-adf5-9cd9949bd3a0/Kalvma%CC%88rkning_fre-0988+kopiera.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Ánte Johan Máhtte prepares to throw his lasso at the foothills of Tjeavrabahkko mountain. The reindeer calfs born in the spring are rounded up and their ears are branded with their owners mark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c6b36402-1881-491c-8fb5-e592d48d4c0f/Va%CC%88ntan_klar+kopiera.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The long wait. Stockholm Palace is where the King conducts his day-to-day business, when he’s not travelling. The Royal Guard is a major tourist attraction. A detachment from the armed forces have continuously patrolled the royal palace since 1523.The changing of the guard takes place every day at 12.15 in the summer and people line up early to get a glimpse of the ceremony. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/b829e47a-695e-4b24-bf74-0e1feb041bf9/Hundspann+Norrland.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Ammarnäs Gorik trains his sled-dpogs before the season starts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/dc16001f-3f73-4fb2-a351-561710bcc1cf/Jultomten+finns-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Who knew Santa Claus lived on Odengatan in Stockholm? The kids from the Kindergarten school ”Tårtan” got it all figured out. Any talk about Santa ”not existing” is just baloney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c581c926-3087-4bb6-bef3-d9750e87ff54/Lucia+ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The light in the deepest hour. The celebration of Lucia takes place every year on December 13th. Girls and boys visit public places, like the National Museum of Art in Stockholm to sing hymns. Lucia Lucia symbolizes the end of the long, dark winter nights and the return of the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/90d47b34-7cd7-4047-8f41-c0b35a1460d5/LilianLunch-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out A Princess takes a Princess to lunch in Stockholm. When Lilian May married Bertil Gustaf Oscar Carl Eugen – more known as just “Prince Bertil” she became a Swedish Princess and Duchess of Halland. He died in 1997 and Princess Lilian passed away in 2013. She was a beloved member of the Swedish royal family and being treated to a nice lunch by the Crown Princess Victoria made her day some years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/a7b3b5aa-221e-454b-aa11-b50af9e97d63/Beegravning_insta-twitter.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Soon the guest will arrive to say their final farewell to their beloved friend, father and husband. Björn Wrange was a man of many trades, one of them was building boats and his wish was to have his funeral ceremony on one. The Florist Jill WIndahl from “Atelier Fleur” arranges the flowers while Matti Andersson, Björn Gäfvert and Sven Aarflot rehearse. In the kitchen, Kicki Anderberg Wadhagen, one of Björn’s friends, is arranging the wine for the meal after the funeral. “Funerals are so sad, there is always one less partying.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/49dfe4ba-970b-4005-b817-334b4c216490/Northern+wedding-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out It´s the eight of august and Juhan Aslat and Marja has just walked out of Ammarnäs church as husband and wife, The date of the wedding was something that their reindeers decided. In the fall, they roam free in the northern wilderness. Juhan and Marja met on the dance floor of Jokkmokk market seven years ago and the wedding dinner speech from Marja’s best friend is a keeper for the ages. “Juhan is the best *quarter to four in the morning pick up there is. If you wouldn’t have taken him, I would surely have.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/4a58dd90-142b-4136-ad7d-9b7820cad208/1-Maj_Stockholm-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Fighting faces of First of May. Waiting for the meeting to start, 8 degrees celsius and drizzling rain. The backbone of the @socialdemokrat party shows up even if the weather is grim. Estimates say that approximately 5 000 marched through #Stockholm today, celebrating the international worker's day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/55dd02d3-ef27-4b76-8e0b-5ed9782488a3/Sno%CC%88ova%CC%88der+Sthlm-B-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The climate, the weather, the climate, the weather. The debate surrounding climate change and it’s effects on weather patterns around the world is a storm in itself. A vast majority of scientist agree that the short term effects are due to long term problems. Stockholm snowstorm, november 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/25fa143e-5c2d-476e-b24f-79aa565abebd/Milles+va%CC%88g+tillbaka-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Milorad’s three-year old nephew Matteo wants to help. It’s Christmas and the whole family is gathered at Milorad’s home in Gothenburg. 24 years ago today, he came home again with an Ambulance plane - after spending 37 days on a ventilator at the burn unit at Uppsala Hospital. Twice during the coming months infections almost took his life. Milorad Stankic survived the catastrophic fire in a dance hall that claimed 63 peoples lives. One of them his best friend. Milorad’s body needs daily training and physical therapy to function properly. (With a little help from a small friend, today’s session was somewhat easier.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1596196140213-36KKJ6RR0FOJ4HR9LPXP/Lisa+avsked Single photographs The phone call came on a Tuesday. Lisa Jormvall´s husband Jouko had a fever. He had contracted the Covid-19 virus. A short while it looked liked he was going to pull through. He still had his appetite and seemed strong, but a week later he passed away. Lisa was devastated that he died alone, in Corona-isolation. Lisa and Jouko met 1956 when a friend of Lisa needed a double date to a dance. The dance partner of her friend had a brother, ”that was even more handsome”. Lisa and Jouko got married a few months later and four years after the wedding they were blessed with a baby daughter, Susanne. Jonas Widigsson from the Funeral home has managed to get a rare permission and arrange for Lisa to say a last farewell to her husband at the Södersjukuset in Stockholm. Lisa puts her hands on her necklace, made out of their wedding rings, and tells Jouko how much she loves him. Sixty three years after their wedding death has separated them. But for Lisa it is not the end. ”It has been a wonderful story of love, and it continues.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1594805335127-E4DQ5DMSD1BY4UTHP89L/image-asset.jpeg Single photographs The summer day smiles at Suss Holm and Barbro Johansson when they stroll down Djurö Kyrkväg on the island of Värmdö outside Stockholm. Gullviva, johannesört, gulmåra, förgätmigej. The names of the wild flower fauna of Sweden has a definite poetic ring. Todays harvest will soon adorn the coffee table at Djuröhemmet, the home for old folks where Barbro lives since her stroke last year, She likes living here, it reminds her of her childhood home and she thinks the staff is lovely. Djuröhemmet has been spared from the Corona-virus, much to the credit of the management, quickly establishing strict protocols, among them a ban for visitors and face shields are worn all the time, even outside. The nurse Sussi Holm brings Barbro and the other guests for walks as often as the weather permits. She loves it. ”My job is to work with activities during the day, it is the greatest job on earth, the joy an appreciation I get back is truly immeasurable.” . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1593590368746-XFU86JEFEBV3SQE0KQKV/Coriander Single photographs ”We don’t know if he will survive.” The last two months of the pregnancy were difficult. Ultrasound showed that the heart of the baby did not beat the way it should. Cecilia and Marcus were forced to check in at the hospital every morning for extra check-ups. The medical staff wanted the pregnancy to go full term but at the same time not risk the baby`s life. Three weeks of daily check-ups later their doctor finally made the decision and Coriander was born February fourteen, 2008. Valentine’s day. Coriander was born with a very rare genetic disease. He cannot walk, talk or eat, but there is nothing wrong with his communication skills, expecially when dad plays the hard rock broom during the feeding sessions in the family kitchen. Marcus loves his son dearly. ”You can never, never forget that it is no fault of the child. Sometimes, as with any child, you have to put up boundaries, but you cannot tell a child like Coriander that he cannot listen to that song 400 times. If it makes him happy, you just do it. Even if it drives you a little bit nuts.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1590049619489-Z5EEHM8MFB1U40FEKQNE/Drive_in_Gudstja%CC%88nst-Insta.jpg Single photographs We all have a cross to bear but the role as Jesus can be taxing when you are just four years old. Thelma, the donkey, is in real life a twenty six year old pony with a lot of kid experience on her CV. Normally she works at a riding school for children. Elin Johansson, Lily's mother, has cleverly disguised her with two long knitted ears. The Västerlövsta parish, two hours north of Stockholm is trying a new method to get people to church during the Corona pandemic. A Drive-in sermon during Easter, that turns out to be such a success that the vicar, Katarina Björklund is forced to hold two sermons. "Pray for all the sick, all the lonely, for the staff at the hospitals, working around the clock. Pray for our anxious children. Pray for the pandemic to stop. Pray that we can fight it together. Amen" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580823410317-5DNUIVA8EB83YPL17KZL/Bro%CC%88llopet-hemsidan.jpg Single photographs Royal Happiness, June 19th 2010. The year 1809 Sweden had just lost Finland to Russia. The Finnish territories had been Swedish for 700 years and Sweden lost a quarter of its area and a third of the population. The Swedish authorities wanted a potent new King with military muscles that could reinstate some self esteem and sent a young lieutenant on a mission to France to ask Napoleons permission for the selected candidate, a danish aristocrat; Fredrik Kristian of Augustenborg. Instead he took it upon himself to ask two of Napoleon’s generals if they would consider being King of Sweden. They both declined and the lieutenant asked a third General - by the name of Jean Baptiste Bernadotte - who was interested. When the Swedish authorities heard what the young officer had done he was arrested upon homecoming. "Pojke, om här ginge rättvist till, borde du sitta där varken sol eller måne skiner" "Boy, if this was to play out in a justified manner, you would be put in a place where neither sun nor moon shines." However. Jean Baptiste Bernadotte was elected King August 1810 and became great, great, great grandfather to Crown Princess Victoria - who 200 years later married the love of her life Daniel. Together with their parents they are cheered by tens of thousands of people outside the Royal Castle in Stockholm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580753020110-O45AQ9JP95576SDQGO6V/Bro%CC%88llop_Stadshuset-hemsidan.jpg Single photographs Love conquers all. Every year more than 50 000 couples get married in Sweden. Ida and Henrik Lindberg have just tied the knot at Stockholm city hall and their daughters Ellie, 3, and Lea 5, make the wedding photographer's work for his money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1560286950140-8OGGBXGAZCWLMBLVBIY6/Veronica+Maggio Single photographs Veronica Maggio, the Swedish singer. A shoot for an interview with Dagens Nyheter Magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1557907652786-PDSMUNB5UKJLRROG3YDW/Gentleman Single photographs Senior Citizen Summer Camp To break social isolation for senior citizens the Stockholm ”Stadsmission” sponsor summer visits for 250 people. Most stay for a week, and the majority are regular guests each summer. Einar, 101 years old, is one of those. He finds his visits here very relaxin - even if it seems as many of the female visitors pass by his place of napping. As a true gentleman he greats all of them warmly but his heart is somewhere else. Next week his fiancée will arrive, she wants to marry him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1556028270624-60AB563X624YK7P713SE/Harald+and+Matilda Single photographs Platform of love When Gothenburg Central train station opened up for business 160 years ago there were 16 employees that handled all traffic and support services. Today there are more than 27 million passenger coming and going each year. Harald was one of those and he got a warm farewell from his beloved Matilda when he left for Stockholm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555846623882-73JL310L9YPW7VPJT6HN/Nazi+commuter.jpg Single photographs Are you allowed to bring your Nazi-shield on the subway? When the Neo Nazi-manifestation, (150 men standing still, chanting - surrounded by thousands of counter protesters and police) was over, the black clad men with their shields headed back home with the help of the public transport system mingling with normal commuters. The Nazi proclaimed "takeover of Stockholm" turned into scenes that could have been written by Monthy Python. Funny, if it wasn't so serious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555500924206-A7SK406IJD96ZMO5BJ6P/Livets+frizon Single photographs Safe haven The red line of Stockholms subway makes it’s way toward over the bridge that spans lake Mälaren. Mona Alnashi are awaiting her turn to step into the frigid spring water. Those gathered are all Mandaeans a 2,000-year-old religious group, among the communities hardest hit by the sectarian bloodletting in Iraq after the American invasion. In Sweden they have found refuge and peace. Mona Alnashi likes the bond that still exist between her and the old home country. “This is just like a family gathering. A very big, and wet one.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1617627261313-31XZ1GR4TY4KJB4SCGLR/Emil-badar_insta.jpg Single photographs Finally, Magnus and Ingrid was going to get answer why Emil, their even year old son, was showing strange symptoms. They walked into the meeting at Uppsala Akademiska hospital with a mix of anxiety and hope. It was a Tuesday, August 26, 2014. The day Emil got his death sentence. The doctor told them that Emil had something called X-ALD, a genetic disorder that in its most severe form only affects boys, slowly killing them. If the disease is discovered in time it can be stopped, but it was too late for Emil. In Sweden all newborn babies are screened for 25 different, rare and curable diseases. Emil’s family knows that it is too late for their son, but do not want the same fate affect other boys. Five years ago the National Board of Health and Welfare initiated a process to include X-ALD into the baby-screening. That process is now concluded and the final recommendation is a no. Magnus and Ingrid has read the motivation behind the negative outcome. They do not agree with the reasoning and are upset. ”In a way, this means that Emil’s life is not worth anything. They will send more families into this disaster.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659006256442-7258RO6GL95CQNLSE2FL/Haiti+ha%CC%8Arfriso%CC%88rska+Insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Port-au-Prince, Haiti Twelve years has passed since an earthquake devastated Haiti, killing 220.000 and injuring more than 300 000. During my many trips to the country after the disaster I have more or less always covered the darker side of the story. This is often the dilemma of news reporting. We cover stuff when things have gone bad. However I am always in awe of the resilience, the kindness, the bravery and happiness I meet – in the midst of darkness. This photograph is taken in Port-au-Prince shortly after the quake where strong and resilient survivors rebuild their lives. Today the country, the poorest in the southern hemisphere, is a failed state. Armed gangs roam the streets of the capital and violence is rife. Against the backdrop of other tumultuous world events Haiti has descended into an abyss of chaos. This time totally man made. My heart goes out to all the brave people I met during all my trips. I hope to be able to return soon. #Haiti #Ukraine #War #Russia #Chaos #violence #Donotforget #Quake #Earthquake #Hope #hairdresser #Port-au-Prince #Photojournalism #Photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555774276022-M98CM7MKEASRC5JDK6S4/Haiti+orphans Single photographs Orphanage, Port-au-Prince, Haiti . It´s nine years since an earthquake devastated Haiti, killing 220.000 and injuring more than 300 000. I am always in awe of the resilience, the kindness, the bravery and happiness I meet – in the midst of darkness. This photograph is taken in Port-au-Prince in an orphanage.Wonderful wonderful children goofing around. Survivors, strong, resilient. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/274c59e3-5ad6-4905-a3ea-6ba4fc328998/Owja_Tikrit-A+%28kopia%29.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out American soldiers remove a poster of Saddam Hussein when they move into his former stronghold of Tikrit. He was born in Al-Awja, a small village of mainly farmers 13 kilometers south of the city. Saddam bore the surname al-Tikriti. When the US forces invaded Saddam Hussein, literally when underground and he was found not far from Tikrit, hidden in a spider hole. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1556195302188-44HQ00RFZE9KI54NBLH4/Looter+Iraq Single photographs Looters are rounded up outside the Central Bank i Baghdad during the chaotic aftermath of the 2003 US invasion. Military victory was quickly achieved but the peace was lost. The only structures and buildings that were proteced during the invasion were connected to the oil industry. This further increased the Iraqi populations suspicion regarding the real reason for the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1575154200341-82G4UHIMNUPOPGZ1Q3LE/Baradash-A+%28kopia%29.jpg Single photographs War separated them and war brought them together. Muhammed hasn’t seen his beloved grandmother Zalokh Sabre in five years. As soon as he sees her in the Baradash refugee camp in northern Iraq he starts to run. When the American President Trump more or less gave Erdogan a green light to invade Syria to attack the kurds desperate refugees started to stream over the border. For the Sabre family this meant that they by chance became reunited. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555846417009-5CKQZKLZQBMA876IKO2R/Brickwork+Najaf Single photographs Iraq, October 2003 The workers at the brick factory close to Najaf earned approximately one dollar per day – unless they were women or children - then they earned less. The country had more than 170 small brick factories employing about 30 000 Iraqis. They worked long days in a toxic environment shaping mud into bricks and fired them in massive kilns fueled by heavy oil that produced an acrid black smoke. Many of the workers had respiratory problems. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1573125620055-XDQXJW6NBDOTFUZDQ5FQ/The+reunion Single photographs Firas, father of five, thought that his thirteen year old daughter Shahad was dead. At six in the morning, on march ninth, the family opened the door facing the street. A car approached and exploded. Firas could see his wife Amira and his children Shahad, Fahed and Rahed lie bleeding on the ground. Quiet, still, severely injured. He grabbed his surviving children and ran for their lives. When he reached an Iraqi military unit they helped him reach a hospital in Erbil. But Shahad survived, but lost her right leg in the explosion. Afew weeks she is reunited with her father and younger sister. The medical staff at Erbil hospital does an initial check on Shahad’s injuries. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555851115096-YOQ7GGCH5AXATJNUGBP5/Lebanon+dead.jpg Single photographs Qana, South Lebanon, 2006. Stop crying mama. Haizara grieves her dead parents in the south Lebanese village of Qana, and her young daughter tries to comfort her. Haizara’s parents were killed in an Israeli strike and are still trapped under the rubble. The smell of death is everywhere. Nobody knows how many bodies that lie under the ruins of the village. On July 12, 2006 Hezbollah soldiers attacked an Israeli patrol, killing two soldiers and taking two hostages.The ensuing hostilities escalated into a 34-day long conflict between Israel and Lebanon’s Shiite military-political force.Some 1,200 Lebanese died, the majority of them civilians. It is estimated that one third of them were children. A third of the country’s 4.5 million people. were displaced. 43 Israeli civilians died – mostly in indiscriminate rocket fire from Hezbollah and 117 IDF soldiers were killed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/b37cd583-a2eb-438f-abfd-a95f083bea43/Annelie+Ryde.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Anne-Lie Rydé had her first breakthrough as a soloartist in 1983. When she was younger she studied economics but spent most of her time making music. She retired three years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/4722549c-ffa2-4351-a288-5906734e6964/Viveca+Lindfors.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Elsa Viveca Torstensdotter Lindfors was a superstar actress in her time. She passed away in 1995. Among other prizes she won an Emma for appearing in ”Life Goes On.” ‘She was related to August Strindberg, Ingmar Bergman and Greta Garbo. She performed on Broadway, on Television and in major Hollywood productions. She worked with were Sydney Pollack, Oliver Stone and Orson Welles. I met her in New York in the early nineties, and she invited me back after the photo shoot to help the family with a Christmas group photo, which was an honor. Her final resting place is Uppsala old Cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c9585437-7648-471f-8899-b9461a13b85c/OstenA.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Suzanne Osten, was born in Stockholm 1944. She passed away October 28th 2024 i Stockholm. She was a renowned theatre director, writer and professor. She was on the frontline for children in culture. She always has advocated for culture for young people. She pointed out that a child’s perspective is a question of power - describing power in relationships, and seeing power from an underdog perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/f1ce9835-ecb0-4400-ae0a-9ae89144a090/Birgitta+Dahl.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The prominent Swedish politician Birgitta Dahl passed away last year at the age of 87. She was a member of the Social Democratic Party and had worked as minister for Energy and Environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/6fcb5e20-3ebf-48f6-a64b-a2d74f1356ae/Kerstin+Ekman.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The writer Kerstin Ekman, photographed for Dagens Nyheter - she had just published a book called “The men in the forest”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/499c4c67-aa15-49cc-aeb9-015d1f031729/Deborah+Edwards.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Deborah Edwards in New York 1996. I met Deborah in New York on assignment. The total number of opioid-related overdose deaths in the U.S. had increased dramatically over time. By the end of the 1990s there were roughly seven thousand opioid-related overdose deaths throughout the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/9f7c33d7-81ce-4f25-b0dc-1fe93ff15653/Kyiv-dissident.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Mykola Matusevych, a dissident and Soviet political prisoner, was one of the ten founders of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in November 1976. Risking his life he sent information about human rights violations in the USSR to the West. In 1977 he was arrested and accused of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He was sentenced but did not participate in the trial. Mykola received a maximum term of 7 years in a strict regime camp and five years in exile and was sent to serve his sentence in a Russian camp. He returned from exile in 1989. Mykola lives in a humble house on the outskirts of Vasylkiv, close to the capital Kyiv. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/7702fe6c-2cb5-47d3-b5b4-10c7a02ebcb9/Sven-Bertil+Taube-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Sven-Bertil Taube, Stockholm 2007. A Swedish singer and actor, son of the composer, writer and artist Evert and sculptor Astri Taube. His music touched many hearts and he was also widely acclaimed as an actor, winning two Guldbagge-Awards, the Swedish equivalent of an Oscar. He died on November 11, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/a69bf8f6-df9f-4d06-9fa1-72a9e9d3a48e/Calrsson_insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Former Swedish Prime minister Ingvar Carlsson in his home outside Stockholm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/418f19c4-921f-4bf5-94fb-4acb35331d4f/Avdiivka.JPG Single photographs - Make it stand out Avdiivka, 2016. Zinaida Filipjeva is crying. She is living under almost constant shelling in one of the villages close to the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Her only company is Lapushok, her small dog. Misery and death have been a large part of Ukranian life - long before the Russian full scale attack three years ago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/66a6202e-2bea-4a3a-a669-9f69385e5edf/Silvia-vakt-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The first photos, confirming the romantic rumors, were taken at the Lundmark brother’s gas station in Borgholm, Sweden. Carl XVI Gustaf stopped for gas with a young woman in the passenger seat. It was the future Queen of Sweden. She has been widely known for her commitment for humanitarian causes, children in need through the “World Childhood Foundation” and “Mentor” as well as “Silvia-hemmet” who works with old people affected by dementia. . . Silvia Sommerlath has now been Queen for 47 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1058e113-6103-4331-b5fd-fd1cd5e066de/Helena+Bergstro%CC%88m-insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Helena Bergström, Swedish actress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1584271248410-1814F4RV4PL5C87CXQQY/H%C3%A9di+Fried Single photographs Stockholm, March 2018 Hédi Fried. ”When we stepped off the train we didn’t know where we had stopped. It was the extermination camp of Auschwitz. In front of us stood Doctor Mengele with a whip in his hand. He pointed and split us up: mother to the right, me and my sister Livia to the left. Mother was gassed to death and we survived. With the help of the Red Cross we finally made it to Sweden. ”Today I am afraid that history has taken a dark turn. We live in Sweden with a comfortable feeling of safety: surely it cannot happen here? We have to be vigilant and aware.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1694676318976-UFGLH7ZAROWK6X6KPBF0/image.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The Old man and the sea. In real life. I met Gregorio Fuentes in 1989. Or more correctly, I met his daughter. She slowly opened the door of the small family home in the seaside village of Cojimar and put a finger over her mouth. We had to be quiet. Her father was sleeping. Más tarde en el día? Could we come back later, in the afternoon? And for God’s sake. Do not bring him any Rum or cigars. A few hours later, Gregorio Fuentes, the famous old fisherman, accredited by some biographers to be a model for the main character the book “The old man and the sea” by Ernest Hemingway, happily accepted our gifts of Rum and Cigars. Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for twenty years, longer than he lived anywhere else, in a small hilltop estate by the name of Finca Vigía. Today the place is a museum where time seem to have stopped for a little while, the house seem to be still waiting for it’s master to come back from a lunch break to La Terraza in Cojímar or the Bodeguita del Medio or the Floridita in Havana. His glasses are on the bed, and the typewriter is perched on a tall table in the bedroom. Hemingway wrote standing up. According to Hemingway, “Fuentes was a born seaman who rode out four hurricanes, swam through shark-infested waters to rescue a drowning man and could feel in his bones precisely where the biggest marlin, sailfish and tarpon would be running.” Thirteen years later, Gregorio Fuentes died in Cojimar in,104 years old. He never got around to read Hemingways most famous book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1612014977410-GBUTM4NHJ2BQ4536LX0J/Anette+Sallmander-klara-0009-ppt.jpg Single photographs Anette Sallmander’s parents fled the Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. Mojzesz Zylberszac and Kato Kirshner met at a refugee camp in Värnamo in 1946. But the policeman who issued the passport to Kato told her that ”Kato” was a nickname in Sweden and changed it to Katerina. She had survived Birkenau, Auschwitz and several German labor camps. Her mother, father and brothers, nine and seven years were gassed to death in Auschwitz. Anette does what she can to keep the memory of the Holocaust alive - especially these days when right wing parties and neo-nazis again gain power. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1584194564014-XT5EQDRZG2MAWUY7HI86/Astrid+Lindgren Single photographs Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren created many beloved characters in the land where Fantasy and Warmth rules. This photograph is taken in her beloved Vasaparken where she strolled every day. One day, when Astrid’s own daughter Karin was sick she asked her mom to tell her a story and Pippi Longstocking, a strong young girl, living in a big yellow house with a horse and a monkey with a Father working as a pirate was born. Pippi Longstocking was a revolutionary story about a child, a girl even, living alone, challenging adult authority - creating a role model for millions of young girls around the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1584008821814-CDDVOJ9G3JY2F53BCCNV/Mary+Ellen+Mark-Insta.jpg Single photographs Mary Ellen Mark has been called “The most influential woman photographer of all times”. When I met her she was 72 years old and never contemplated quitting photography. She started photography by chance as a young child and has never regretted it. One of her favorite subjects were just children, even if she did not have any herself. “I don´t want to be tied down. With children I don´t think I could have made a career. Many that want a large family have happy memories from one. I don´t.” She died four years later, she is missed as a dear and generous colleague. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1560871493081-NME7JKB4GG7GE9SBL4PA/James+Nachtwey.jpg Single photographs James Nachtwey curating his exhibition Memoria at Fotografiska in Stockholm. Nachtwey is probably the world’s foremost photojournalist. Most of his work has centered on countries in war or going through a crisis. He has been awarded many times for his wok 2001 he recieved the Wealth Award. In 2003 the Dan David-priset and 2007 the TED-prize. Nachtwey has been awarded the Robert Capa gold medal five times for his exceptioal courage and dedication. He has won the World Press Photo twice and he is an humble, low key person who cannot even spell narcissism. In short. He is James Nachtwey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/62e3ea38-3570-4922-b068-2eed842e101f/Stabpoint-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Ukraine has just been presented with a so called ”Peace-plan” - without being a part of the process at all. The plan, will in effect, mean capitulation. It’s more or less a wish list of demands from the Russian attacker. According to the plan, Ukraine would give up territory, dismantle a big part of it’s military capacity and never join NATO. People have lost their homes, their future and their lives for almost three years now. Along the eastern part of the country people are being evacuated by brave crews from, among others, #White angels and @east.sos.us Soldiers and civilians are suffering, at frontline hospitals, in freezing apartment buildings, all over the country. And the Russian attack continues. Killing people every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/b728d7d6-a833-41bc-92c3-4f9c943d04f3/Ukraina+Mariupol+ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out January 2015. Anatolij Bobylov was the only survivor when a rocket fired from Russia-backed separatists exploded in Mariupol. His son Nikolaj and his wife Ljubo together with their daughter Marina and grandchild Vjatjeslav, 3 years old, is put to rest on the outskirts of Mariupol. The war in Ukraine did not start in 2022 with the full scale invasion by Russia - the killing started by Russian proxy forces long before that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/caeae01d-3447-4933-b18b-01b9d22a759c/Attack+Kramatorsk.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Unrelenting attacks in Uktraine. If there is anything that is a common denominator during war and conflict, it’s the fact that often when the politicians start to talk about “peace” - the violence escalates. While the US president meets his russian counterpart in Alaska in August of 2025 - people are still being killed by russian forces. Kramatorsk and Sloviansk are frequently attacked. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/47218e55-6daf-4440-906f-6369e3c2bc66/Funeral-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Andrej Sannak, a major in the army, was killed one week prior. He is grieved by his wife Olena and family when he is buried in Kharkiv. The official number of dead Ukrainian soldiers since the Russian attack is a closely guarded military secret, but estimates have ranged between 60 000 and 100 000 killed. And the killing continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/a5d67f51-873b-4964-b981-0ecc260c7f42/The+battle+for+Ukraine.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out May, 2014 at 15.30 the local bus to Karvilka pass the area where a firefight had taken place earlier. A few kilometers from Donetsk airport Pro-Russian militia attacked a Ukrainian army post. Six soldiers were killed on the Ukrainian side and the rebels lost at least four. They loaded their own dead on a truck for transport – but they let the Kyiv faithful combatants lie on the road. The war in Ukraine did not start 2022, it has been going on for more than a decade. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c92db8b1-2700-41bf-891f-68a825dd59d3/Ukraine+rehab-insta+.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out “Now the task is to stay alive.” Most of the injured soldiers have been wounded by artillery or drone attacks. Svitlana, a nurse at the rehabilitation ward for war amputees keeps an eye on Serhy trying to get stronger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/4c26dd9a-1913-4c15-9d01-7f42ec6346f3/Mars-Donetsk-skates.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out . Crimea, 2014. The start of a war. A young girl I Donetsk is taken by surprise when local police surround the administrative building to protect it from an approaching mob. Russia invaded the Ukrainian Crimean Peninsula with special forces without insignias supported by local militia in February and march of 2014 – and annexed it. In many ways it marked the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine. From the Russian side it was fought by proxy - by an array of armed groups mainly in the Luhansk and Donetsk region. The Russian aggression led to thousands of people getting killed and losing their homes. Eight years later, in February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion, escalating the conflict into a full fledged war, killing hundred of thousands of people. ‘And the war continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/f0f48ea3-ced3-4b96-a086-f2aff5641e99/Ukraine+happy+kid+.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Happiness is when grandma Tatjana brings home a balloon and play with five year old Dana. Jablunska street in #Kyiv was hard hit during the #russian occupation. Today life is slowly returning, in the midst of war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/7b8e33b2-423b-49b1-b738-9f2aa86bb95a/Kherson-1666+kopiera-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/f7953515-f840-415e-8279-d7735aae7f36/Kherson-Insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/a1763757-7d5d-4e5e-99f8-0a2dc6f062b5/Kyiv+love+Insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/2badc918-2c56-474f-b9d2-2e1e965fc73a/Ukraine+Karvlika-tweet.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out 2014 - Avdiivka The war in Ukraine did not start in February 2022 - it started eight years ago. This photograph is taken in may of 2014 after at battle close to Donetsk. Six people were killed by armed men supported by Russia. The dead separatists were taken by lorry to be buried but their victims were left in the street. One of them had his heart cut out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/b5d03695-75fa-4fd6-aeef-dc06f4bb658b/Ukraine_destruction-tweet.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out 2022 - Zhytomyr Oleksander Kruk lost his wife Lyudmyla when Russian missiles hit his house in Zhytomyr. Four people were killed in the close knit neighborhood. Oleksander talks to his wife every day, tells her that their nine year old son is doing good, that he loves and miss her. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1657966222743-L6QAUJ6Y999BIUP62CL7/22-Trostyanets-0955-insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out ”A cold month” Tetiana Diachenko is happy that he hasn’t had breakfast yet. Today, as responsible for the Trostanyets hospital morgue, she is inspecting the state of three dead soldiers. The stench of death hits us when she opens the door to the morgue – but not as bad as expected. “Thank God that it has been cold this last month.” Tetiana stayed in the hospital during all the Russian occupation. There were nine severely sick patients that could not be moved. Russian forces often shelled the hospital and she spent a lot of time in the basement bomb shelter. One day, when she moved the patients to the shelter she suddenly stood face to face with four Russian soldiers who aimed their automatic rifles at her face. “After living through something like that I will never be frightened again.” Russian forces occupied the sity of Trostanyets from February 28th until March 27 and when they withdrew they left their dead behind. Normally the Russian soldiers would have been buried immediately but the Ukrainian security service has not allowed it. Elena Volkova, the deputy mayor thinks the reason has been that they want to exchange the dead with Ukrainan dead, or POW:s. “But now it’s too late. It is getting warmer. They will have to buried today or tomorrow.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1657032865491-ORDLPBXUYX3F78Q60Z8S/27-Kharkiv-1730-4-eg.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Taras Obruchnikov and his colleagues help a man who got the lower part of his right leg severely injured when Russian artillery started shooting at a civilian area in Kharkiv. So far close to 5 000 people have been killed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1657033633029-8WMY0VTLSXJ3VUT9K0HF/27-Kharkiv-1875-4.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Death in the afternoon. The Russian artillery north of Kharkiv randomly shoot into civilian areas, killing scores of people. There are no military installations here, just people walking their dogs, hanging out with friends strolling by. This day three people were killed and seven wounded in the Saltivka neighborhood. According to a responding ambulance driver, “A quiet day.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1648998423978-H8FAUE4N2BGTUFQ7TI3C/Lviv_ta%CC%8Agstn_flykt-2Mars-Bonniers.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Taras cries when he says farewell to his son Matviy. His wife Kristina has written a heart on the train door. Together with the couples other son eight year old Ustyna she is leaving for Poland. Taras is forced to stay behind. No men between the age of 18 and 60 are allowed to leave the country. They are expected to fight the Russian invasion. The departing trains are packed, way beyond their limit, with women and children – leaving devastated fathers in their wake. Fathers that head for the frontlines. Four million people, so far, has fled Ukraine and according to estimates from the UN the number can reach five million. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1648998732584-G7L2X6MDUYIJ6QWEPOOE/Fleeing+Ukraine.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Police at the Lviv train station are trying to organize the flow of refugees trying to catthc the departing trains for Poland. Many are packed, way beyond their limit, with women and children. So far, four million people has fled the violence in Ukraine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1561989842309-WTTBWKDLTX158C6M4MY4/Frozen+war Single photographs Stalemate in Kiev. The air is thick with smoke from campfires and burning tires along the streets of Kiev. The Majdan revolution against Viktor Janukovytj started on november 21 when he declared that he would not sign a partnership deal with EU. November 30 the Berkut riot police and snipers killed many people along Hrusjevskyj and other streets in the Ukranian capital. During a lull in the clashes a local priest tries to intervene, but whithout any success. Soon the fighting broke out again. . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1622971544753-AGCP841QB79E1J8NRSD5/Krasnohorivka-0433-insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out A country, divided by war. Sixty two year old Alla Segeda lives in the village of Krasnohorivka, a few kilometers outside the by separatist controlled city of Donetsk. The frontline is five hundred meters away. The distance to the capitol Kiev is 700 kilometer. But that is just logistics. In Alla Segeda´s mind it is far more distant. ”Our part of the village is abandoned. Cast away. Like it never existed. Kiev feels like another planet, above the clouds.” The seven year old war in Ukraine has, so far claimed 13 200 lives. And there is no peace in sight. The slow and deadly stalemate in the east continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/9089ccbf-e48a-40ff-8949-9c0ae3e0616e/IDP_Charahi+Qambar-insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Kabul, 2012 Charahi Qambar camp for internally displaced in Kabul. A delivery of aid has arrived. Approximately 5000 people lived here. It’s a volatile place, according to a camp official, two journalists were killed in this area. Wakil bas Muhammad and the other habitants of the camp make sure that the aid gets through to the people most in need. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1631988133949-VLDII8R0N9KPVJ5O9HHJ/Flickskola-Kabul-klar-b.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out After the Taliban was routed by US forces and the "Northern Alliance" girls were again allowed to go to school. So many new pupils wanted to attend that some schools had to use all available space and run lessons in three-shifts. Now, yet again, the history of this troubled nation has turned a dark corner when the Taliban are back in power and immediately ban all girls older than 12 to attend school. “All male teachers and students should attend their educational institutions,” a statement from the Taliban Education ministry stated. The future of girls and female teachers, stuck at home since the Taliban took over was not mentioned. This edict makes Afghanistan the only country on earth to ban half its population from getting a secondary education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580226871819-7Q00GFQYP1NZPBSPMV44/Afghanistan012.jpg Single photographs War widow, Kabul 1996. The strategic geographical position of Afghanistan has made its tragic mark on the country for centuries. I took this photograph of a war widow being helped to an ICRC food handout in Kabul more than twenty years ago. The war against the Russian invasion and the following internal battles between different Warlords killed tens of thousand of people. Some of the same Warlords were later called "allies" in the war against the Taliban terrorists.The terror and killing continues. The deadly violence continues in Afghanistan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580227307410-JVN7IQCAIBQT0YGC6AFM/Afghanistan013.jpg Single photographs Kabul, 2002 It was getting dark. The warm summer sun of daytime lingered on the concrete. Kabul was in ruins. It was time to go back to the guesthouse and say goodnight. Suddenly I heard laughter approaching, and I turned around to see a cyclist passing. The bicycle was loaded with family members and newly bought vegetables. I ran next to it for a while, taking a few photos, before the group hurriedly disappeared, laughing. Five hopeful smiles cycling towards a brighter future. That’s what I thought then. There would be many more trips with a bulletproof vest in the luggage. Afghanistan’s geopolitical location is at the root of a lot of this evil. The presence of foreign armies has dominated the country’s history for many years. The latest full-blown occupation was Russian and ended in 1989. After the Russians left the war continued as a civil war between the government, supported by Russia, and the guerrilla groups. In 1992 the capital of Kabul finally fell, but the different guerrilla groups, led by so called warlords, started to fight between themselves, and another war broke out, lasting for nine years. The biggest devastation happened between 1993 and 1994, when large parts of Kabul were turned into rubble. In 1996 the country was taken over by the fundamentalist Taliban movement. The Taliban ruled the country by force until 2001, when an offensive led by the Americans overthrew them. After the fall of the Taliban life slowly returned. Houses were rebuilt, roads were repaired and the education system, especially for girls, could be prioritized again. There was a striking shortage of schools to accommodate the huge amount of pupils. The existing schools sometimes worked three shifts a day. The fact that the schools had no windows or roofs didn’t matter. The country suddenly had a future, and money and businesses were flowing in. Even though the landscape to the south and west of the city centre still consisted of kilometer after kilometer of destruction and horrible memories, the ruins were starting to show signs of life. The primitive buildings built in sundried mud brick were refurbished, and sometimes demolished to make way for modern houses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1631462695085-J0GKAHMI363YOJZGW9DT/Afghanistan+balloon_insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Kabul, 2012. A couple of blocks from the "Olympic stadium" internally displaced refugees have taken shelter. The 83 families had been fleeing violence for three years. Four year old Bibi Hajira is very happy that her older brother Shir Agha let her play with his balloon. The last time the Taliban movement ruled Afghanistan the "Olympic" stadium was used for public executions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/6923adf6-c672-4190-9215-f9f2f4b594f9/Gaza+last+dead.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Gaza, november 23rd, 2012. The Nabaheen family buries their four year old daughter Riham. Just a few hours before a cease fire was going into effect, Israeli forces fired a missile that killed her in the courtyard of their house in Nusseirat. Her father Meher have collected the body of his child at the morgue - on the way to the cemetery he collapses and is helped by friends and family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c6d25b67-e957-4e5e-8939-de7272bc693c/Gan+Handarom.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The Gan Handarom, close to Gaza. Dasi Halevi is burying her son Aviad, side by side with his childhood friend Zur Saidi. They were inseperable from first grade in school, where one of them went, so did the other. They went to the dance festival when Hamas shot them both. Aviad managed to call his father who sent help, but when they arrived Aviad and Zur had died from their wounds. They were 26 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/521303e4-345a-4375-9826-b8bd32807932/Ramallah_marknad-insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Zain is cleaning up in the aftermath of an Israeli army raid on the vegetable market in Ramallah. According to the IDF the target was money lenders, suspected of connections with Hamas. Zain and the other vendors were sceptical and very frustrated over losing a large part of their stores. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/e8dc0935-17ea-40e3-aabe-1ac64b1edce0/Gaza_gunga+i+ruin.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out 2015, Gaza. A child born in Gaza 2008 has lived through three wars and many skirmishes. The war of 2014 claimed approximately 2500 killed, More than 2300 of those were Palestinians. But, in the midst of it all, children are playing, coping, or trying to cope. A psychologist i asked about PTSD joked with a black sense of humor that there were no PTSD in Gaza, “There is no Post traumatic stress disorder in Gaza, because there is no “post” - it is continuing trauma.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/0d9de969-48f0-4b58-a5dd-028967077fc2/A+third+Intifada-homepage.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Twenty-two year old Omar Manna was a baker. He was killed last night not far from the birthplace of Jesus when the Israeli army came to arrest his brother. As a protest for the shooting Palestinian authorities called for a general strike. The latest killings bring the death toll in the occupied Palestinian territories this year to at least 208 Palestinians, of whom 156 were killed in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, making it the deadliest year recorded for Palestinians since 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1582646199900-V3ZUL98P5CICOWKCQKKY/Beit+Hanoun Single photographs Gaza, Beit Hanoun July 2014 Normally the village of Beit Hanoun has 50 000 inhabitants. Today many of them are dead, injured or homeless. When a short humanitarian truce is proclaimed hundreds of people rush back to try to salvage belongings and collect their dead. A pungent smell of death is everywhere. Large swaths of the area is totally destroyed. Bodies are buried under the rubble and the streets are littered with dead animals. The Israeli drones are constantly humming above. A block away from the destroyed hospital Diab Ahmed Kafara shouts out his anger over the war. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580655011236-66XZB6ADZSVH93FS6QMJ/Paul+Hansen_Gaza_ruiner-hemsidan.jpg Single photographs Gaza, 2009, Beit Lahiya The War of 2008-2009 in Gaza was dubbed “Operation Cast Lead” by the Israeli government. The numbers of casualties are, as always, in war in dispute. According to B’Tselem, around 1391 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 759 civilians, this included 110 women and 344 children. An Amnesty international report stated that “lives were lost because Israeli forces frequently obstructed access to medical care." It also condemned the use of weapons such as white phosphorous and artillery shells. Amnesty also said Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups had endangered Palestinian civilians by firing rockets from residential neighbourhoods and storing weapons in them. Israel lost 10 members of the security forces in the three-week offensive, including four by "friendly fire". Three Israeli civilians were also killed. In addition to the human cost, hundreds of houses were destroyed by Israeli forces. The house of Bothina Khader was one of those. Israeli tank crews drove up to her neighbourhood, planted explosives and blew up her home. She was devastated, now living i a tent next to the ruins of her home. “The only thing we have left is the mortgage.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1627406115550-DUBGIACUS3ENW7UEFR8N/Gaza+Ruinlek+Insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Gaza, July 2021 The war started May 10. According the Israeli military more than 4,300 rockets were fired towards Israel by militants and the Israeli military struck more than 1,000 targets in Gaza. When the war was over, according to local sources, 12 people, including 2 children were killed in Israel. In Gaza at least 243 people were killed, including more than 100 women and children. A thirteen year old child in Gaza has lived through four wars. In the neighborhood of Beit Hanoun life is slowly returning to normal. When afternoon turns into evening Munira is playing with her little sister Mervat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1582293328928-06MPM6SWLTZ2MVG6K48M/Boxning+Kongo-insta.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/6e3e1b07-967c-43de-9347-d41a1446396d/Kibati_Insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out 2008, DR Congo, waiting for a convoy with food to arrive. At the foot of the Nyiragongo volcano lies Kibati refugee camp for internally displaced tens of thousands of people lived, or rather, survived. It was dangerously close to the frontlines - facing the onslaught of the former Congolese army officer Laurent Nkunda. Everywhere he went with his soldiers, rape and killing was rampant. Today he is in custody somewhere in Rwanda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/eaaca142-94a7-4e13-9c79-050a38c71f2a/Jemen+insta.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Mustafa Rashid Hassan is 20 years old. His brother was killed by the human smugglers that took him from Somalia to Yemen. Together with the survivors of the journey he lines up at a UN camp for refugees. The stories that they tell is harrowing, babies being thrown over board, women being raped and boats that capsize. Mustafa owns two pairs of trousers, two shirts and the sandals he is wearing, but he is hopeful for a new, and better, life. “I am relying on my God.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1614163233034-Q8X7CHFCELDH41XB8S28/Rigonce-flykt-ppt.jpg Single photographs In 2015 thousands of refugees fled toward safety from war and violence. Outside the Slovenian village of Rigonce a train full of refugees has arrived and is escorted by police to a transit camp. Soon the borders leading north into the EU were closed off with barb wire, police and military. Many of the refugees and asylum seekers became stuck in a humanitarian cul-de-sac. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/c0a6020c-d869-4c5a-ad06-30f40b4baba1/Kultur-krock-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out A group of tourists in Swaziland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/9b595a3d-95ce-48b2-b392-9f3d0f6e8f00/Sirjadikhan_Dhaka.JPG Single photographs - Make it stand out Watching (the neighbour’s) TV in a small village outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Even though Bangladesh stil is a poor country, it is - according to the World Bank on the right road. More than 33 million have been lifted out of poverty since 2000. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/41ff1491-46f7-4623-9a35-9e3b57041768/Casa+Ioana_barnhem-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Tragedy struck the british police officer Ian Tillin twice. First one of the vulnerable children he cared for back in Kent died and then his own son passed away. In 1990, when the fall of the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in Rumania revealed immense social problems, especially for the children, Ian went there to try to help in some way. He never left. Among other things he did was to organzie, fund and manage a shelter for homeless in Bucharest. I met Ian at the shelter Casa Ioana in November 2010. One of the families he helped was Clara and her three children; Mario, 12, Geanni 6, and Florina, 10 months old. The place was filled to capacity with around 50 homeless people and private space was scarce. When Geanni wanted to get some alone time he snuck away took a nap in the most secluded spot he could find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1617445983402-FGHH4G7CTIE12OKX3959/Tiggare_Dhaka-0152-ppt.jpg Single photographs Madani ­Avenue, Dhaka, Bangladesh, march 18. To paraphrase Leonard Cohen’s famous words: ”There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Sumaiya Akhter has brought her homework when she keeps her blind and begging mother Nilufer Yasmin company on the heavily trafficked Madani Avenue. Todays topic is religion. Sumaiya’s battery-driven lamp is brought from their home in Joypurhat in the north of the country. An area that is especially hard hit by floods. Nilufer Yasmin and Sumaiya are two of the millions of migrants that has come to the capital of Bangladesh, the vast majority of them fleeing cyclones, floods and other climate-connected disasters. In Dhaka these people often make a meager living as day laborers or beggars. Approximately 70% of the inhabitants of the slums of Dhaka are migrants due to the negative effects of climate change. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/4f624308-0ec2-4c26-8f93-eae11b3c4848/Kopia+av+Pak_fattigdom-3.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Poverty and play in Pakistan. A small creek runs through the slum in Islamabad, the capital. The smell of refuse is overwhelming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/64770724-5d40-4f27-99b1-579af4da71b8/Kina+-pingisskola-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out 1995, file photo. Covering the 43rd World Table Tennis Championships in Tianjin, China we also did some stories about the broader aspect of the sport. Among other things we visited a school – where the pasttime centered around the game. According to some stastistics, there is one table tennis table per every seven Chinese. Table tennis has been the national sport since the fifties. With around 100 million players, there are bound to be some expert players. China is the undisputed, dominant superpower of the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439937025-6TL82R5TNQG0JLB7JINQ/7-Kabul_fotboll.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439933830-S26G3BGHXKXXBCIVBXYY/Bahr-El_Ghazal-fotboll-A.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439936989-QTCAW6XB1CT3D8QVSIVK/Fo%CC%88rsto%CC%88relse010+2-3.jpg Single photographs Arkitekten Habib Ghaddar jobbar p medan medhj‰lpare fˆrsˆker Âterfinna hans arkiv och dataminnen i ruinerna av det som en gÂng var hans kontor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439940317-SSPPHGURZLZYJR7KHRXI/Haiti_8jan_la%CC%88ger-095.jpg Single photographs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1659439940485-0AQOV84WHJLDC7NS0JGZ/Haiti-003.jpg Single photographs I slumstadsdelen Coté Soleil delar döden och livet samma gata.På elégatan sparkar småpojkar boll samtidigt som Jura Decius snickrar på en kista. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/f0b9fd55-a022-4ec5-a3fb-aa1207a212b3/Srebrenica+refugees.JPG Single photographs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/d0265f4f-b528-4e4d-be7a-3d4044f39b15/Sarajevo+Krigsamputerad-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out On the outskirts of Sarajevo during the Bosnian war. The thunder from the frontline formed a backdrop when we left the besieged city. Everywhere we looked, the scars of war were visible. As journalist we are always temporary guests in other people’s misery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/9431c88d-1fe6-445e-bc17-eed1877687e2/Bosnien_accordion-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Bosnia, spring of 1994. It was always such a striking contrast. Wearing helmet and vest, moving along the, sometimes mined roads, with the UN convoys. A war torn country, surrounded by normality and civilians. Children running along the asking for “bon bons” - candy. Or a young boy silently watching another armed UN-convoy thunder by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/6293bc89-9eb4-44da-8072-53bc7e72e7d0/Vet+tyst+minut.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Swedish veteran UN-soldiers during a moment of silence for their fallen comrades during a reunion meeting i Skillingaryd, Sweden. These men were, among many other duties, tasked to help the survivors from Srebrenica after the largest massacre in Europe since th Second World War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/5f19e766-6409-4717-af3b-c6564f0490d9/Tuzla+sorg-tweet.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out On 25 May 1995, the Army of the Serbian republic launched artillery shells agains a youth festival in the city of Tuzla, kiling 71 dead, most of them teenagers. More than 240 were wounded. On the outskirts of the city, on a slope, people come to grieve their loved ones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/a8e85e37-0614-486d-ac61-b499f67c0e61/SrebrenicaIngaMa%CC%88nTa%CC%88ltBA.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Survivors from the massacre in Srebrenica 1995. More than 10 000 fled to the outskirts of Tuzla. On 6th April 1993, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 819, declaring that Srebrenica and a 30 square mile area around the town was a United Nations Safe Area. The UN promised the people of Srebrenica safety and security. Then the genocide began. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/d9e2c244-3ded-4d8d-9612-7fb329e988d5/Fidel-tva%CC%8A+ha%CC%88nder-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The came to get us in the middle of the night. The location was secret and we were taken to a building on the outskirts of Havanna. Fidel Castro’s security detail did not mess around. In spite of being (according to Cuban state security) the target of 643 assassination attempts - Fidel Castro ruled Cuba for 47 years - during the same time span - 10 different US presidents served. Castro took power in 1959 when he led the overthrow of the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, making Cuba the first Communist country in the Western Hemisphere. Fidel Castro brought social reforms to Cuba but at the same time heavily oppressed human rights. Many saw him as a ruthless dictator. Thousands of Cubans fled to the USA during his regime. He died on November 25 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/db5e2743-7c35-4aa2-b115-7231b7dbb7fb/Kjell+Olof+Feldt+brygga-ppt.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Kjell Olof Feldt was the Swedish Finance minister for many years. Later in his life he - among other things - bravely posed when we made a series of summer-articles for the newspaper “Expressen”. His wife Birgitta von Otter happily talked him into wearing the snazzy swim-trunks. He passed away January 8,l 2025. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/e60b53bb-4726-4c37-b665-819ad79f0fc8/Bo+Lundgren+hopp.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out Bo Lundgren was Tax and deputy Finance minister 1991-1994 in Sweden. My assignment was to, somehow, illustrate the fact that Sweden’s fiscal management was good - and with a little help from the physically adept minister it succeeded. I think that the hardest thing for the minister, was to not crack a smile. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/d7553cb8-7d7b-474f-88de-a5f122dd8546/Hedi+Fried-Kristersson+%28kopia%29.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The Swedish Prime minister meets the Auschwitz survivor Hédi Fried. During the meeting he promised her to never cooperate with the Swedish Democrats - a party with Neo-Nazi roots. He later claimed this was a misunderstanding and that the promise was made as a possible leader of an Alliance of parties - not as the leader of his own, Moderaterna. However, this had earlier been contradicted - by his own words in several interviews. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/9b183fa3-b3e3-44cb-9053-19a7519639c4/Refgeringbildning-ppt+%28kopia%29.jpg Single photographs - Make it stand out The visual anatomy of new government in Sweden. Led by Ulf Kristersson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/80a21b32-2cf4-4abe-a356-9592fbc45a11/Frukostseminarie-0003.JPG Single photographs - Make it stand out The visual anatomy of new government in Sweden. Led by Stefan Löfven. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/blog-avenue daily 0.75 2025-06-10 https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/blog-avenue/2016/3/1/dubai-4bh29 monthly 0.5 2016-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456863401711-L4GULCMN1HZJY6XAFAQY/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Dubai https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/blog-avenue/2016/3/1/budapest-3535r monthly 0.5 2016-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456863715325-IZSY1YJXJS57RY8JXID7/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Budapest https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/blog-avenue/2016/3/1/paris-yzhsr monthly 0.5 2016-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56d4a125e707eb7a02e4055f/1456863897354-3K5CGNSC641EWCMIBK83/image-asset.jpeg Blog - Paris https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/about daily 0.75 2024-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/6fc944dc-5c0f-4e29-b6f1-09ed54473f0a/Paul+Hansen-portrait-low.jpg About & Contact - Make it stand out Foto by Anette Nantell https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/tearsheets daily 0.75 2025-10-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/730e3da4-4b6f-4731-ac73-44a55b144b39/Roger+Moore+cover.jpg Tearsheets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/d189dd71-8563-47c2-94d1-2635f57d4688/Ukraina+Mariupol+funeral.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out January 2015. Anatolij Bobylov was the only survivor when a rocket, killed by a rocket frm Russia-backed separatists. His son Nikolaj and his wife Ljubo, their daughter Marina and the grandchild Vjatjeslav, 3 years old is put to rest in Mariupol. The war in Ukraine did not start in 2022 with the full scale invasion by Russia - the killing started by Russian proxy forces long before that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1760696075817-T5S3CYV4OO6LSJF95O77/Sara+Danius-1.jpg Tearsheets - Sara Danius-1.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1760696076928-PJYJMW6EU9QQO7AJ7E7U/Sara+Danius-2.jpg Tearsheets - Sara Danius-2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/63d5a444-54e2-4dd9-869e-5ec60823bc64/Roger+Moore+cover.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out It’s not everyday you get to ride along with. no other than Bond, James - or Roger Moore as he is also known. Mårten Blomkvist, the reporter got the words down on paper and I enjoyed the ride, one 500/th of a second at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/b116e333-4f6a-4635-a79c-e73404a94af2/The+reunion.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out The reunion. Firas thought that his thirteen-year-old daughter Shahad was dead. For three long weeks, until he got the news that she had lost a leg - but was alive in a camp. A car bomb from ISIS exploded close to their house in western Mosul, killing Fira’s wife Amira and Fahed, the youngest son. Firas, thinking that Shahad, was dead took the other children and ran for their lives. A phone call from his brother, telling him that his daughter was alive, led to the reunion. The organization Doctor without Borders and the staff at the hospital in Erbil worked hard to bring the girl to her father and surviving siblings. “Where is mother, and Fahed?” Shahad asks for ther mother and little brother but Firas doesn´t know how to tell her that they are dead. Buried just outside their old house in Mosul. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/fefe14f3-be49-4ce4-a0b7-1de11994bc4e/Hedi+Fries+omslag-ppt.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Hédi Fried, survived Auschwitz and found refuge in Sweden. Together with her mother, father and sister she was met on the train platform of the camp by Doctor Mengele. He separated them. Hédi and Livia never saw their parents again. Together with more than one million others they were murdered - most of them jews. Hédi passed away November 19, 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1b73c4be-6561-4c4b-85b2-48e10160a331/Jultomten+finns-sida.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Who knew Santa Claus lived on Odengatan in Stockholm? The kids from the Kindergarten school ”Tårtan” got it all figured out. Any talk about Santa ”not existing” is just baloney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1649072079508-HTSV1P33Y1JLJBORSED4/krigets+kvarter-1+uppslag.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Zhytomyr. They were getting ready for bed. Oleksander told his son to put away the Ipad. His wife Ljudmyla was already under the covers.That’s when the Russian missile struck. Killing his wife and two other women in the close knit neighborhood. The number of civilian casualties is climbing as the Russian attacks intensify. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1612015221708-4BKWSBWOKUIP2OKQZEEF/Anna+Ardin+omslag.jpg Tearsheets The woman that came in from the cold. Ten years ago Anna Ardin contacted the police and accused Julian Assange for sexually assaulting her. For ten years she has been silent, awaiting the justice system to run its course. Julian Assange fled the country and evaded the evaluation by the courts. Anna Ardin paid a high price. For ten years she lived with body guards and was harassed extensively. Now she is silent no more. With her book ”In the shadow of Julian Assange” she tells it like it was. Like empowered victims of sexual violence all over the world, she now owns her own story - far from the spin of her accused. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1599319360369-8LMLXMJ01IDDUQPW9DK1/Hrodna Tearsheets Aleksandr Lukasjenko has called Hrodna ”the most unreliable place in all of Belarus”. The city of 370 000, close to the Polish border has become a symbol for the dissent against the dictator. When demonstrators regularly gathers at the feet of the large Lenin statue a police loudspeaker immediately announces that the assembly is illegal and threaten with arrest. The people answer by singing folksongs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1589626002990-W5W1K92IWN8FEKWIUFYH/Kontrabas+BIlden-sida-la%CC%8Ag.jpg Tearsheets The fact one person’s floor is the ceiling of another is very palpable during these Corona-social-distancing days. Especially when your neighbor happens to be Ulla Ryman, a professional musician. When her normal workplace, the Konsert hall in Stockholm. Sweden more or less is closed her small one room apartment is turned into a rehearsal studio. Ulla has just come back from her work as a volunteer for the Charity organization Stadsmissionen where she delivers food to isolated old people. She loves the work. ”Music is a fantastic force, but its not like we are saving lives. No man lives in a vacuum. It’s fascinating how good you can feel when you do something for another human being, without expecting anything in return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1581342517760-1XP6LGO0GCZLVOVDIDED/Mado+Kongo+uppslag300px.jpg Tearsheets The girl in the blue plastic tub is about to die. Her name is Mado Kwalya, she is four years old and she weighs ten kilograms. The pediatrician John Peter Mulindwa is certain. The severely malnutrition girl with die, at least with the lack of care available at the Shabunda hospital. Mado is far from alone. There are five million children suffering from malnutrition in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 12 out of 100 children in DRC die of malnourishment before they are five years old. In one of the worlds, potentially, richest countries. Thanks to issue being raised with the staff at Panzi hospital in Bukavu and the Swedish NGO Läkarmissionen, Mado was evacuated and her life saved the next by an emergency flight by Nick Frey at the Mission Aviation Fellowship. Two months later Mado celebrated her birthday. She turned five years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1575154752321-OZTUKZVEWLP9S4VP7KBC/Kongo+Ebola+uppslag+2019-1.jpg Tearsheets DRC Ebola, hope and despair, november 2019 The efforts to contain the ebola epidemic in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been successful so far. In the last week, there were 7 cases of Ebola in the country, down from a peak of over 120 per week in April 2019. However renewed violence in the area affected by ebola has hampered the work and creating fears of a renewed surge of contamination. Two recent attacks have killed 4 workers responding to the Ebola outbreak and injured 5 others. The dead is a member of a vaccination team, two drivers and a police officer. Earlier this month in the town of Lwemba, Ituri province, attackers killed an Ebola response community health worker and left his wife critically injured before burning down their home. The victim was also a reporter for a community radio station, helping to raise Ebola awareness. Since the start of the year, WHO has documented more than 300 attacks that have caused six deaths and 70 injuries to health care workers and patients. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1561989173872-OVF3YM87P60SBFIVGVQY/Gaza+2012 Tearsheets Gaza, Nusseirat 2012 A few hours before the final cease fire agreement was going into effect an Israeli missile hit a narrow alley in the village of Nusseirat. A piece of shrapnel penetrated a thin metal door and struck four year old Riham Al-Nabateen in the head. Killing her instantly. Her father collapses on the way to the cemetery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555500421943-E4WIQHHROJI5A2HW82KS/Look+Good+Feel+Good-sidor.jpg Tearsheets Every day, fifteen to twenty women in Sweden are diagnosed with cancer. One part of their treatment is of course psychological. At Karolinska Hospital the project “Look Good Feel Better” turned 10 years old. More than 10 000 women have attended their courses that are sponsored by local companies and free of charge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555256380772-1M2QOHXZC0PW8AG8Z5YL/Iraq+Kurdish+election+Dagens+Nyheter Tearsheets Election rally i northern Iraq. A local policeman tries in vain to persuade a kurdish man to step down from the roof of the fragile players box at the Suleymania stadium. First part of a four page spread in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555256436926-I1TPTMTN9DSCNJ52PISQ/Iraq+Kurdish+election+Mosul Tearsheets The guns are silent and there are no more bodies floating downstream from Mosul. First part of a four page spread in Dagens Nyheter, Sweden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1568652153334-JTS2CUV55Y4ZNG05ZZ42/Ukraine+school+attack+Donetsk.jpg Tearsheets Ukraine. School number 57 in Donetsk was filled with children, teachers and parents celebrating the start of a new school year when a rocket fired from the front exploded. Andrej Grebonkin the biology teacher, a janitor and a father of one of the student was killed. Pavel, the brother of Andrejs wife Natalja arrived, thinking that Andrej was alive. When the school headmaster called her, he was still breathing but he died soon thereafter. The war in Donbass have killed more than 13 000 people according to the UN. With no end in sight. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1637082403752-MCSWQ4N9RMGHH7QNI6HI/Veckan+i+bilder-Lo%CC%88fven.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Stockholm november 2021 The Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven handed in his resignation papers today. He has been the leader of the Social Democratic party of Sweden for nine years and Prime minister for seven. It was during his regular summer speech in august that he suddenly broke the news that he was stepping down, and potentially paving the way for Sweden to have its first female Prime minister in his successor Magdalena Andersson. He is looking forward to a life where suits and ties are less frequent and to spent much more time with his wife Ulla. “She is the love of my life.” He also looks forward to build a new sauna in the couple’s summer house in the north of Sweden. Kjell Stefan Löfven has made quite a career in his life. He is 64 years old and originally he is a welder by profession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1643570577932-FUYRMMRY03PQ940VVP5W/Bilden_Bihac_uppslag.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Bihac, Bosnia Abbas Khan has a cigarette as afternoon turns into evening. It’s freezing cold. Iqbal Khan, Satwan Danish and Hussein Ali warms hands and feet by the fire. They are all trapped in a humanitarian cul-de-sac on their way north, toward the European Union countries. Abbas Khan is 18 years old and has been here two years, trying to cross the border thirty five times. The Croat police push him back every time. Sometimes violently. The local Red Cross estimate that there are 1500 refugees in the camps and 500 living in abandoned buildings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1644852669264-SD2USRU8B48Y1TV0HJ97/Tyngdpunkt+flyktingar+Bosnien-1.jpg Tearsheets - Make it stand out Velika Kladusa, Bosnia Running from persecution and death in Afghanistan. Jawid Zafari worked for an American company and the Taliban regime is actively hunting people with the same background. He is fleeing for his life. It has taken the Zafari family five months to reach Bosnia. They travelled through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Northmacedonia, and Serbia and have spent their life savings on food and people-smugglers. Today they are starting their last long walk, toward the Croatian border, in the hope that the Croatian police will let them through. If all goes well they will be placed in a transit camp in Zagreb – the last stop before the final destination Germany. Jawid is hopeful, in spite of the stories from other refugees about brutal pushbacks by the police. “Maybe they will be kinder to a family with small children?” https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/new-page-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555245516486-ORW18ZJBNEUW1S3YROLO/Kongo_Ebola-001.jpg Congo, virus of death Frontstaden. Tv��riga Chrisostome dog i natt och snickaren levererar en kista till familjen Kisughumus hus i den lilla byn Paida. Ebola misst�nks och civilf�rsvarets begravningsteam �r p� v�g f�r att vidta skydds�tg�rder. Desinficera omr�det, och f�rsluta kroppen i en liks�ck av plast. De f�rsta fallen d�k upp i juli och hj�lparbetarnas arbete blev mycket sv�rt i en aktiv konfliktzon. Striderna har bidragit till att utbrottet nu �r det st�rsta i Kongos historia. 560 personer har hittills smittats. 336 avlidit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555245938022-8IVQ5KLQLXB3FXOYLPI1/Mourning Congo, virus of death Pascaline Masika have just died from Ebola. Her daughters have just received the news and are devastated. A crew from the Red Cross arrange the funeral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555246565915-5MRMTX0K87X2FRZOAN6U/Safe+burial Congo, virus of death When Pascaline Masika is buried family and friends have to keep their distance. Nobody is allowed to wash and dress the body before the laying it to rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555246349932-LJO4SCTYOJIHBTIBX43Z/Vaccine%2Bfor%2Blife Congo, virus of death The vaccine gives hope that it’s possible to stop the spread of the disease. But nobody knows for how long. So far more than 41000 people have been vaccinated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555246121051-J0B401M8SBYEORTNQZPK/Forest+of+the+dead Congo, virus of death The jungle cemetary. The last victim of the day is Dorcas Kahindo Lyakuna and the crew just manage to close her grave before darkness falls. Ten freshly dug graves are waiting for the coming weeks victims. More than two hundred Ebola victims rest here. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/frozen-conflict daily 0.75 2022-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555320012439-ZQ2WZ0GJ2EHQJ46C2ZT5/Ukraina%2BKiev%2Bv-tecken-ppt.jpg War in Ukraine Lugnet före stormen? En demonstration av kvinnor kunde i lugnet ta sig framför barrikaderna och på sitt sätt konfrontera poliserna. Ludmila Sirko var en av dem. Bild till papperet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1655378741129-TS8QJRO8N2G8RWPCF13X/Zhytomyr_begravning-2425-2eg.jpg War in Ukraine - Make it stand out A son has come home to be buried. Olha Dvornitskyj has tucked in her son, one last time, softly speaking to him. Apologizing. “I am so sorry that I couldn’t protect you. I wanted you to live. Be happy.” Vjatjeslav Dvornitskyj has come home from the frontline to to his hometown of Zhytomyr to be buried. The twenty-eight-year-old captain was injured by shrapnel from a Russian artillery shell and lost too much blood to be saved. “He loved to play the guitar when he came home on leave, I used to sit next to him, just to be close.” Vjatjeslav was Olha and Viktor’s only child. The president Volodymyr Zelensky recently broke the silence regarding the number of killed Ukrainian soldiers. Sixty to one hundred soldiers lose their lives every day and around five hundred are injured. All over Ukraine more and more mothers and fathers are burying their children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1651910993036-HBL9H7SVNRQQ9ZHEUPI3/Zhytomyr-insta.jpg War in Ukraine - Make it stand out A soldier is taken to his hometown and buried. The attack on Ukraine by Russia has killed thousands of people and forced millions to flee. The number of dead soldiers is a well-kept secret in the war but the UN estimates that more than 3 000 civilians have been killed, and hundreds of those are children. The war rages on many fronts and the killing continues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555318795965-0JZ4ZQBURBY18YL6VTW1/A+teacher+is+dead War in Ukraine Biology teacher Andrej Grebjonkin was killed in an attack on a school in Donetsk. His wife and brother in law identify him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555319093747-PO2TTR04IUJA12JDAFBT/Life%2C+and+death+at+the+front War in Ukraine Changing of the guards. A chess game and a cuddle with the “Military Cat” their ally in the war against the ever present rats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555319308120-QVNB0CVOZ3BUD83AJAKJ/Slavyansk+FSB War in Ukraine Pro-russian separatists prepare for street fighting in the village of Slavyansk, led by Olga Kulygina from FSB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555319508565-D5VGKU404K1QQXVWI6GW/Memorial+service War in Ukraine Villagers of Grabove in Eastern Ukraine hold a memorial service for the dead after the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger plane. Debris from the plane and hundreds of dead are scattered around the village. The air is filled with the smell of death and burnt jet fuel. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/a-man-called-ragnar daily 0.75 2019-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555321268736-3LQ6YKWECG5SS6R8B29I/A+man+called+thumbnail.jpg A man called Ragnar https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2019-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555256060244-1CR6NV7CVT2QJM9097JY/Gaza_Do%2525CC%252588dens%252Bmarsch-001.jpg Gaza violence Krigets ögon. Fjortonårige Yassir Arafat har under sin livstid upplevt tre krig. Han är trött. Palestinierna kastar sten. De israeliska soldaterna svarar med tårgas och skarp ammunition. Sedan i mars, då den största civila massprotesten i Gaza började har 104 Palestinier dödats, av dem 14 minderåriga. Demonstranterna kräver stopp på blockaden av Gaza och rätten att återvända till de platser i Israel som man flydde eller fördrevs från då flera arabländer anföll Israel 1948. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555255128443-J5HMM7IQ9E0DDERCM21F/Gaza_Do%CC%88dens+marsch-003.jpg Gaza violence Fourteen year old Abdallah Mursi is shot in the head and his family prays outside the intensive care unit at Shifa, hospital. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555255153250-7583QGNT4BDYSH9BSEWE/Gaza_Do%CC%88dens+marsch-004.jpg Gaza violence Identifikationen. 23 year old Yazan Tubasi is identified by his father in the morgue of Shifa hospital. Yazan became the 50th Palestinian killed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555255197664-60OF36FFXXDY8YWXIJ0W/Gaza_Do%CC%88dens+marsch-006.jpg Gaza violence Jaber abu Mustafa is mourned by his son Wissam at the funeral outside Khan Younis. This day 15 Palestinians was shot in the chest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555250068702-YGWZKY801VC5VR4DOLFB/Burial Gaza violence Said Abu Taha became the 38th Palestinian killed during the “Great March of Return” His brother Vännerna med Khaled and friends carry him to the family home in Khan Younis. Said Abu Taha was 29 years old,married to Hanin and the father of Rahaf, 2 years old. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/laughing-in-the-face-of-death daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555322083937-0SGSBH3GOEG5S9N86485/Clownmedicn+tumme.jpg Laughing, in the face of death https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/australia-1 daily 0.75 2019-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555502211714-O9AWWDYNMZXVY30QI3OD/Tsunami Australia The Sydney Morning Herald Khao Lak, 2004, Tsunami. The last victim. The elephants used for tourism are put to use in the dense jungle above the beaches to retrieve the dead. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/sydsvenska-dagbladet daily 0.75 2019-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555774422568-4ZUWVCV44G6D6F294WYM/Fabienne+Cherisma Sydsvenska Dagbladet In the ensuing chaos after the earthquake in Haiti Fabienne Cherisma was shot by a police officer in Port-au-Prince. Her father Osam carries her home together with her brother Jeff and sister Samantha. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/sos-save-the-children-magazine daily 0.75 2019-04-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555754505577-TJOT6SG230SANIZIW4YO/SOS+Magazine.jpg SOS Save The Children Magazine Life is slowly returning to a devastated country. Haiti after the earthquake. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/barn-magazine daily 0.75 2020-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1589712191224-15T4Y7NR9AZ0NT9JKQX1/Myanmar+marsch+2.jpg Barn Magazine On the road in Myanmar we passed a long procession of people, marching together by holding a long rope. “Who are those people?” I asked the driver and told him to stop. He didn’t answer or stop. Even if the country had made steps toward a more open society, demonstrations were a sensitive subject. A few miles down the road he dared to pull over and I hitched a ride back with a passing motorcyclist. It was a march for peace. A demonstration against the ethnically charged violence in the country. Close to 100 000 from the Kachni minority had been forced to flee their homes and scores of civilians was reported killed. Up front the activist Ashin Panditamanda led the procession from Yangon to Kachin. A 45 day long trek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1588760683502-P5ISFIB57SU4C51I8JUS/Save+the+Children+Gaza.jpg Barn Magazine Beit Hanoun, Gaza. The only times it was possible for the inhabitants of Gaza to reach the areas most affected by the war was during cease fires. But the cease fires between Hamas and the Israeli military were very unpredictable and people rushed in to collect the dead and retrieve whatever belongings they could. More than 2000 people lost their lifes in the war of 2014, many of them were children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1555754880809-XT9JN4RKXPVBYDRZ5OR3/Barn+Haiti Barn Magazine https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/a-man-called-ragnar-trailer daily 0.75 2019-04-20 https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/expressen daily 0.75 2019-11-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1575154004368-WGADJXC5DRP9G4IBBFSU/Bildkro%CC%88nika+Expressen.jpg Expressen A visual column in Expressen. How not to handle firecrackers. The firefighter Dick Karlsson travelled around Sweden telling school children not to follow his example. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1558452430547-19BUFUC92MGXGWR6SMHD/Astrids+jul+1996 Expressen A cover of Expressen Magazine Christmas 1996 with Astrid Lingren. She was interviewed by Maria Schottenius and the subject was her own past Christmas evenings. A truly magic day with the Mother of Pippi Longstocking. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/tidningen-vasaplan daily 0.75 2019-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1558608341065-KDIEIQO2PYICPQI35SGY/Vasaplan+Gaza+2014 Tidningen Vasaplan Vasaplan Magazine. A few hours before the cease fire would go into effect the israelis army fired a missile toward the village of Nusseirat. It exploded in a narrow alley killing Riham Al-Nabateen. She was four years old. Her father collapses on the way to the graveyard and his friends carry him the rest of the way. Gaza, the war of 2014. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/new-page-3 daily 0.75 2019-09-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1568380485981-9ETAIW9D94F7MK9REGNB/Va%CC%88rlden+o+Vi+tearsheets.jpg Världen och VI Ukraine, Kiev Ludmila Sirko is a brave woman. On the street where she defiantly showed the Berkut police force her mind. Several protesters had been killed on this street. Together with a group of other women, calling themselves the “Action of Women” she was tired of the bloodshed following the protests in Kiev against the #Yanukovych regime. The Maidan revolution led to a conflict in the country with many layers, that claimed and still claims many lives. https://www.paulhansenphotojournalism.com/arabic-spring daily 0.75 2024-12-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1581606813727-4LRRR06XNQUDGLRUQCVL/Libya+prayer Arab Spring Libya, Benghazi March 3, 2011. At sunset the painter Hassan Khalifa Sadawi turns his back on the enemy for a short while. It is time to pray. One of his volunteer rebel friends stands further down the beach with a anti-aircraft missile on his shoulder. Yesterday the city of Brega, a couple of hours away by car - a few minutes for a fighter jet - was bombed. Antaircraft guns and missiles are placed all around the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. Gadaffis security personnel have harassed Hassan for many years. The trouble stared when he refused to paint Gadaffis so called “Green book” on a wall. He was fired from his work and sent to prison for six months. For crimes “against the principle of Gadaffi” he laughs. Seven months later Gadaffi was killed by rebels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580892631253-2VWGABJO3DWNVLLXEFPJ/Tunis+till+hemsidan.jpg Arab Spring Tunis, January 2011 Tunisia has an oversized police force. Compared to a country like Sweden its police is nine times larger. The men in blue are very unpopular, having controlled the country for the dictator Ben Ali with brute force for so many years. During the uprising the more popular military several times stepped in between demonstrators and violent police officers. An older man has fallen during a police attack on Aveune Habib Bourguiba in central Tunis. He pleads for restraint but the police are more violent than ever. The attacks with teargas and live ammunition gets more and more frequent. At least 78 people had died so far. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580571700539-GO3U07RYRQ7N91G09NYD/Bahrain-bildspel-0007.jpg Arab Spring Bahrain, Manama, February 2011 Ahmed Ali became one of many victims for the deadly violence from the Bahranian police. The local uprising against the oppression and corruption of the ruling family gathered mostly around Pearl square in the capital. Security police and Saudi military put down the revolt a few weeks and many deaths later. Ahmed Ali’s friends and family say a final farewell at the Salmaniya hospital in Manama. He was 22 years old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580571325039-5PFLR4CH4YA6TV3U4QL3/The+sacrifice+for+freedom.jpg Arab Spring Libya, Aydabiya, March 2011 A cigarette keeps the worst of the stench away when the blood is cleaned of a stretcher that just arrived from the frontline. The life of the soldier could not be saved, he lost to much blood during the transport. Volunteers man the hospital and makes it functional in spite of a lack of almost everything. Many of the patients need to be evacuated to the more advanced hospital care in Benghazi 160 kilometers away. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a61b1388dd041ea8cad5daa/1580571389759-84V9XA6JSWVIRDKMJI77/Pro+democracy+fighter.jpg Arab Spring Tunisia, Tunis January 2011 When the fruit salesman Muhammad Bouazizi in desperation over poverty and police harassment set fire to himself December 17th in the small village of Sidi Bouzid nobody could predict what would happen. 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