Mikkel Hørlyck

17/03/2020 Timotiejus (20) is on his way to visit his brother - together they will fly home to Lithuania. “I don’t know when I will have the opportunity to come home to my family again. There have been eight flights, I would have liked to have been on, but they have been canceled,” says Timotiejus. He does not understand why there are no more people wearing masks in Copenhagen. To him, the mask shows that you take the coronavirus seriously.

13/03/2020 The Americans Molly Zamzow and Garet Gjerseth have just been married at Copenhagen City Hall alone. They are both in their early twenties, have been lovers for two years and are traveling across Europe. They do not know how to celebrate their day. "It's hard to be a tourist when everything is closed," they say.

17/03/2020 Diana (37) is sitting in a train, on her way home. "I'm scared of the virus," says Diana. She has been in the city center to buy food in an Arabic shop. She and the kids are all home because their schools are closed down.

07/04/2020 Julius (10), nephew of the owners of Søtofte Agriculture, is waiting for drive-in customers. Søtofte Agriculture normally sells organic vegetables, milk and eggs to schools and Copenhagen restaurants. All their sales disappeared from one day to the next. Now they have opened for drive-ins for private customers instead. They sell milk, yogurt and eggs directly from the barn. They are optimistic about the future, even though they barely break even.

09/04/2020 Dyveke Meier (91) lives alone. During the past half a year she has fallen twice and is vulnerable to new falls, because she has reduced mobility in her legs. 38 municipalities have at this time made cut downs in public care for elderly as a result of corona virus. Now, she can only get a bath once a week, cleaning every three weeks and no training of the legs.

16/03/2020. A woman passes an empty restaurant in Copenhagen.

26/06/2020 Cecilie Sommermark (26) is finally walking with her parents again. She suffers from a severe epileptic disease. "We do not know if she will pass away in eight weeks or ten years," says Steen about his daughter. During the corona crisis, Cecilie had to change residence and her parents Majbritt and Steen Sommermark were not allowed to join. The transfer lasted for five weeks, and the institution in Slagelse declined help from the parents due to local rules caused by the corona virus. "It was completely up in the air to go through with the transfer without our help and tough on all of us,” says Steen.

31/08/2020 Bus driver Michael Jakobsen (64) receives a school class bordering his bus. Aarhus is at this time a “corona-hotspot" in Denmark, and throughout the country the mask is now required in public transport, half a year after the outbreak of corona. "Why did we not have to wear a face mask when the corona first broke out? I think face masks are excessive nonsense. Why should a school class wear a face mask in the bus and not in class? The school children are still used to be together," says bus driver Michael Jakobsen (right). He has been driving busses for 43 years.

17/07/2020 Jakob Thysgaard and Yulia Radko dance Argentine tango with music from a small speaker, while the sun is setting at the waterfront. They are part of a tango association, which due to the corona uses the copper floor in front of an office building as a dance floor - it is good to make pirouettes on. The members of the Tango Association always dance with the same partner.

May 2020. Loneliness and isolation lie over the marshland in Højer, Denmark, nearby the closed border. At this time virtually none are infected with corona on the German side of the border in the city Harrislee.

In Southern Jutland white horses play a symbolic role. On a magnificent white horse, the Danish king rode across the border to celebrate the reunion in 1920. For the Danes, who since the bitter defeat in 1864 had to live in Germany against their will, it was a colossal liberation and joy to see their king crossing the border. The border was subsequently moved further south and the Danes living there were again part of Denmark.

Hinrich Jürgensen, chairman of the German minority in Denmark with around 15,000 members. "Even though we, the German minority, don’t have a reunion with anybody, or anything to celebrate, we were also looking forward to celebrating our first 100 years as a minority in Denmark," says Hinrich, who should have celebrated the reunion with a party at a gathering place for Germans in Denmark.

Ea Als-Andersson (left) is wrapped in the Danish flag and Anja Kjær (middle) carries the German flag at the field by Dybbøl Mølle. They make teaching material for the organization Danes World Wide about Denmark to Danes around the world. It was estimated that 25,000 people would visit Dybbøl Mølle and its beautiful field at the anniversary.

At the small wooden bridge Schusterkate, connecting Germany and Denmark, Güde and her 1-year-old daughter Romi are looking at a swan. They miss their Danish friends and neighbors from the other side of the bridge. "It's annoying. Flensburg is almost dead without Danes. I just hope it is over soon and that we are free again," says Güde.

All nuns experience the call to God differently. For a few nuns it is a voice from heaven. "It is always experienced as something that comes from God. For me, it was a long process to understand what I was going to do. The process was a mixture of longing, joy and fear,” says Sister Maria Lioba (54).

Sister Maria Lioba (left) and two sisters are leaving the afternoon prayer in their monastery’s Catholic church.

After the evening prayer, the sisters spent half an hour alone before meeting again for dinner. Then they watch the news together and 45 minutes of talk follows in the common room before the last prayer of the day at 20:15. During dinner, the sisters do not talk. Before the meal, they read 'Benedict's Rule' loud - the sisters' rule book. Then the five nuns eat in silence.

One sentence is very important to Sister Maria Lioba: “Love must be the determining factor - it must be the starting point and goal for what I do in my life ”. As a nun, life is especially about God’s love. It is God's project that the sisters serve. 

"We are constantly aware that we are working for something much bigger than ourselves. That's how we perceive it. God's project is much bigger than ours,” says Sister Maria Lioba.

A book in sister Maria Lioba's room. When Sister Maria Lioba was a teenager, her parents was divorced. Later, she strongly felt that the family had been torn apart. "It was extreme. Up until then, I had seen our family’s love as the meaning of life. But then it seemed too be too fragile to believe. Then I had to start all over again and figure out what the foundation in life should be. Something was missing if my view on life should make sense,” says Sister Maria Lioba.

Five sisters pray during an afternoon prayer in their monastery’s church. It is completely quiet in the church, while the sisters of the order arrive separately. Each nun kneels before she takes her place behind the altar. Then a chorus of bright voices begins a Latin song. They make their evening prayer and sing David's hymns from the Old Testament. 

"I love the choir prayer. In that prayer, God and people meet. It is prayed simultaneously throughout the world, and it is our most important task," says Sister Maria Lioba.

September 2019. Kim Ejlertsen (59) is a teacher of practical sailing at The Sailing Club Frem.

The Sailing Club Frem from 1897 is one of the absolut oldest representatives of the sailing culture in Copenhagen, but the club is threatened by plans for a new Technical Museum.

Uffe Elbæk (66), a well-known politician in Denmark, photographed during an interview after resigning from the Danish political party Alternativet on 9th March 2020. He states that he can no longer recognize the party he himself started in 2013 - but that he is not done with politics. 

In September 2020 he formed the party The Free Green with three other former members of Alternativet. They want to be "Denmark's party who takes responsible for climate and anti-racism" and fight all forms of inequality.

January 2016. In Italy it is forbidden to celebrate Saint Antonio with bonfire, but it has no effect on the boys of the Spanish Quarter in Naples. The boys are known for their anxious relationship with the police. 

The young group of boys have controlled an abandoned block for this evening's tradition 'O cippo 'e Sant' Antuono' and are shouting: "The police is our worst enemy", while yet another molotovcocktail is flying through the air.

Emma Saksaa (21) during an interview about the controversial murder of her best friend, the Danish-Tanzanian man Philip Mbuji Johansen (28). 

Phillip was brutally murdered by two brothers in a forest on the island of Bornholm June 23rd 2020. One of the brothers has a swastika tattoo and during the murder, one of the brothers pressed a knee on Philip’s neck, which created associations to the killing of George Floyd in America. Emma, who has a Danish-Pakistan background, do not care for the two brothers anymore, but says that the murder wasn’t racially motivated: herself, Philip and the brothers were friends.

The brothers claimed that Philip had been sexually transgressive towards their mother, but it has never been reported. The brothers were sentenced 14 years of jail, without being judged for racism. Neither the prosecution nor the defense attorneys believed that there was anything that pointed to a racist motive.