LARS BLACKMORE Posts

September 15, 2007

A well-intentioned relative recently forwarded me an email commenting on a school shooting in the United States. The sadly misguided piece of religious propaganda reproduced in the email has been circulated on the Internet since at least the summer of 1999, at times attributed to – a probably fictitious – retired Navy chaplain, Clarence Schultz.…

September 15, 2007

A well-intentioned relative recently forwarded me an email commenting on a school shooting in the United States. The sadly misguided piece of religious propaganda reproduced in the email has been circulated on the Internet since at least the summer of 1999, at times attributed to – a probably fictitious – retired Navy chaplain, Clarence Schultz.…

September 15, 2007

KUKES, Albania, April 1999 – More than 25,000 refugees stream across the Albanian border on a cold, rainy night in late April. Terrified families are crammed together on makeshift wagons pulled by decrepit old tractors, on the run from Kosovo. Old grandmothers moan in pain and hunger, while the little ones dangle their bare feet…

September 15, 2007

– Live på dåse Ølsjatter, varme spots og tobaksrøg kan ikke proppes ned på et DAT-bånd. DR og Eurospotting gjorde alligevel forsøget; På Vega i København afholdt d´herrer Jan Sneum, Borges, Laursen & Co. talentaften i slutningen af november, hvor de gav publikum en liveoplevelse og samtidig formidlede live-lyden på dåse til et radiopublikum. “Hør…

September 15, 2007

(Ikke udgivet, kun for sjov…)  Min gode ven Johannes fra etagen ovenover bankede på hér til aften. ´Kom lige op og ta’ en lytter,´ sagde han med et smil, der rakte fra øre til øre. Johannes har en syret musiksmag, og jeg troede han havde fået fingre i en ny plade med acid-jazz. Det viste…

September 15, 2007

In April of 1999 I went to the Albanian border with Serbia to cover the refugee crisis unfolding as the Serbian forces expelled the ethnic Albanian population from the southern province of Kosovo. On assignment for several relief agencies, I combined my primary effort at photojournalism with some dispatches that were used by my clients…

September 15, 2007

For years, I edited and designed the monthly newsletter SNApshot for the Danish SNA/LAN/WAN consultants dansystem A/S. A 12-16 page A4 two-color job featuring illustrations by one of Denmark’s best cartoonists, Peter Heydenreich, and photos by yours truly or one of Denmark’s top photo journalists, Thomas Sjørup.

September 15, 2007

(Offentliggjort i forkortet udgave i Weekend Nu i september, 2001) I tirsdags delte jeg en ny og anderledes oplevelse med mine otte millioner naboer: vi så New Yorks stolthed skvatte i grus, og sammen med de to store bygninger på Manhattans sydspids forsvandt resterne af amerikanernes illusion om tryghed på hjemmefronten. Jeg cykler til dagligt…

September 14, 2007

In the spring of 1996 I went to Kosovo, the conflict-ridden southernmost province of Serbia & Montenegro, home to a large majority of ethnic Albanians and one of the flashpoints for the conflct that consumed the Balkans in the 90s. I wanted to cover an angle of the Balkan conflict that hadn't already been done…

September 14, 2007

I Kosova sprang en af gnisterne til krigen i Eks-Jugoslavien. Hadet mellem serbere og albanere er ikke blevet mindre siden og kan når som helst sætte Balkan i brand på ny. (Offentliggjort i “Amnesty Nyt” i September 1996) “Serberne har ikke politi nok til at stoppe hele det albanske folk, hvis det rejser sig samlet.”…