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Album Published June 9, 2017

Portraits

Album with portraits of creators, friends, artists around the Nordic countries.

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Content Published October 1, 2016

Havnebadet

Copenhagen's most visited harbour bath Havnebadet.

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Content Published November 19, 2017

marimekko vr cardboard

Minna Salonen (Team Nano Spark) with Marimekko vr cardboard.

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Content Published November 19, 2017

The Marimekko Experience

Stories in unexpected places was a good slide considering place, action and vision of a vr prototype presented for jury and others.

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Content Published October 28, 2017

Mexican mambo

For a fact, Finnish people love dancing and Latin American music and Orkesta Mendoza delivered a perfect Mexican mambo night.

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Content Published October 19, 2017

Selfie

Danish underground outdoor parties at Refshaleøen are the best. Annually organized Søndagsvenner event stimulates the youth through finest electronic music and place in the nature to dance and chill.

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Content Published October 14, 2017

The walk

Over 15000 protesters joined a demonstration against racism. The walk started off from the Citizen Square going through the main street Mannerheimintie in the centre of Helsinki.

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Content Published October 12, 2017

Gathering at Citizen Square

People gathering at the Helsinki's new square Kansalaistori (Citizen Square) for Stand against Racism demonstration.

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Content Published September 27, 2017

1200 seats

The Huvila Festival Tent has a capacity of 1200 seats available and is the main concert venue of the Helsinki Festival. The tent was nearly sold out for a night with finest world music and afro beats.

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Content Published September 11, 2017

Follow the girl

The instructions communicated to the audience via headphones were to follow the girl who led the tribe of people through a probs landscape in an old railway workshop.

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Content Published August 3, 2017

Afrojazz Quintet with Jimi Tenor and Meissa Niang

Photo shoot with Afrojazz Quintet feat. Jimi Tenor, Meissa Niang and Ilmari Heikinheimo.

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Content Published August 3, 2017

Berry picker

There are many ways how to pick blueberries. I would use my hands, but of course, there exist berry picking tools like the rake depictured which helps quick and effortless to pull off berries without pulling the leaves.

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Content Published August 2, 2017

Despite rain, true fans

Despite few rain showers, the audience of Finnish band Saimaa stayed true fans chanting and listening to their music.

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Content Published August 2, 2017

Second-hand selling

Teurastamo is the new urban food centre with numerous restaurants and bars in Helsinki. The spacious outdoor space is used for all kind of arrangements ranging from live music concerts, festivals, panels to second-hand selling clothing, ceramics and records.

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Content Published August 2, 2017

Son de Cuba

Finnish people love the sound of Cuban music. In Helsinki, one of the greatest places to enjoy Finnish jazz or Latin-American performed live music is Juttatupa. This pub and restaurant with live music stage is one of Helsinki's oldest establishments.

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Content Published July 17, 2017

inspecting the vegetable garden

Father with children is inspecting the vegetable garden.

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Content Published July 17, 2017

Spacious garden

Spacious garden hidden by trees from the rest of the world.

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Content Published July 7, 2017

Two lovers

A man and a woman entangled in love at the Copenhagen canals.

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Content Published July 4, 2017

Participatory design

Malmö Konsthall's approach to a co-operative design involving various stakeholders in the design process of decorating a separate part of the art hall with Islamic geometry and patterns.

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Content Published June 26, 2017

Festival hygge

This picture is from a previous year when the weather was superb. This year (2017) it seems it will be very muddy and rainy experience.

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Content Published June 26, 2017

Dots & Music

Ask Brean works with contemporary technology in an attempt to harvest these processes own knowledge, detached from the user interface. In this image, he introduces to a curious art visitor of his studio some mode of operation that works in dialogue with music and prints dots.

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Content Published June 21, 2017

Welcome to the Roskilde party

Roskilde festivalgoers welcome you to the greatest event of the year.

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Content Published June 15, 2017

Walking into forest

Walking into a forest to pick berries.

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Content Published June 15, 2017

Supporting DIY

FabLab RUC had in the Dream City there own small-scale workshop offering participants to build small loudspeakers, Ukulele and other useful things.

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Content Published June 13, 2017

Today at Islands Brygge

It's summertime and one of the most comfy or "hyggelig" places in Copenhagen is the grass area next the the waterfront in Islands Brygge.

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Content Published June 13, 2017

Folkevandring

It's quite a migration of festivalgoers walking between the camping sites and music festival area. You can easily walk a couple of kilometres in the heat of the summer.

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Content Published June 13, 2017

Atmosphere

The atmosphere depicted when walking between the stages through the Grafitti Camp.

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Content Published June 12, 2017

Sculptures and prints

Anna Daniell

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Content Published June 12, 2017

With Angie

Graffiti sprayers dedicated a whole wall for the Rolling Stones when they were to perform at Roskilde Festival in 2014.

"With Angie" is taken from a series of portraits taken of real fans of the Rolling Stones with the graffiti mural.

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Content Published June 9, 2017

Laila crew at work

The installation of the spray can in the making by the funky Laila crew.

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Content Published June 9, 2017

Party crowd

Party crowd in the Roskilde Geodesic Dome enlightened by rainbow colour lights.

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Content Published June 9, 2017

Irresponsible youth

Discovered in one of the camping areas of the Roskilde Festival.

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Content Published April 30, 2017

Spring in Oslo

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Content Published April 30, 2017

Dancing into a summer night

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Content Published April 30, 2017

A coming together of people

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Content Published April 30, 2017

Love & Friendship

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Content Published April 8, 2017

Helsinki's new cool

Löyly is a new venue combining sauna, restaurant, bar and terraces. The cultural complex is located next to the seaside in Hernesaari, an old industrial area in Helsinki.

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Content Published April 5, 2017

Winter swimming

After sauna one of the most refreshing ways to cool off is ice swimming.

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Content Published March 20, 2017

Warm-up DJ

Warm-up DJ below deck in a barge.

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Content Published March 15, 2017

Material

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Content Published March 10, 2017

Urban footbridge

Inderhavnsbroen, the new urban cyclist and footbridge in the centre of Copenhagen.

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Content Published March 1, 2017

Empowering Nordic fashion

Roskilde Festival is an event with multifaceted undertakings. Empowering Nordic fashion designers and supporting new young talents is just one great example of what experience people can gain during the week long festival.

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Content Published March 1, 2017

Innovating a music festival

Unfair Fashion is a spring board and platform for new nordic design. Through their collaboration with Roskilde Festival, Unfair innovated the classsic program by presenting a fashion event with stage and catwalk to festivalgoers.

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Content Published February 24, 2017

What is Nordic Culture?

Jakob Silas Lund is a Danish writer, humanitarian and founder of Play31, a peace-building organisation that uses football to bring together people who have been torn apart by war. In this short clip, Jakob tells what nordic culture means for him.

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Content Published February 22, 2017

Football unifies

Roskilde Festival is much more than a music event. There are many areas available for leisure and fun such as Hummel's sandy football beach.

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Content Published February 22, 2017

Any age

Roskilde Festival is an event for people of any age.

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Content Published February 16, 2017

Below space activity

The highest activity was at the space below the main deck of the barge.

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Content Published February 16, 2017

DJ Aurèle

The French DJ's Aurèle from Parisian Cracki Records enjoyed the nature and had a good time.

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Content Published February 16, 2017

Blowing bubbles

There was a wide range of possibilities to make the audience participant in the Søndagsvenner event. Soap bubbles are probably one of the oldest forms of entertainment. Soap bubble bottles were distributed among some people who enjoyed the fun blowing bubbles.

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Content Published February 9, 2017

Human rights are central to Scandinavians

In the Nordic countries people are very concerned and supportive towards human rights causes. The attendence to hearing the two Russian human rights activists was incredible. The venue was packed with people.

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Helsinki Festival

Helsinki Festival is an admirable multi-arts festival in the Nordic countries. The event takes place all across the city of Helsinki and broadens the cultural fabric in theatre, circus, dance, music, visual arts amongst other forms of creativity.
Portraits

Album with portraits of creators, friends, artists around the Nordic countries.
Roskilde Festival

The Roskilde Festival is one of the largest music happenings in Europe and offers one-of-a-kind of live experience.

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