Journal of photographer Flemming Bo Jensen

Photographer, Time Traveler, Writer and Nomad

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Momentos de Guatemala

Posted on Tuesday 21 May 2013

Guatemala, February 2013. I walk the streets, haunt the markets, meet people, I stalk the processions, fall over cobblestones, drink copious amount of the world’s best coffee, wolf down Guatemalan food and I try and make a picture here and there. I love this place during the day and I wander relentlessly for hours. After dark this is a different very cold beast altogether as I struggle to stay warm and cheery, anxiously awaiting the return of the sun. My work is done in the sun or dusk light. Doing what I am here for, doing the work, making pictures every day.   Hunting for images, the voices in my head keeps me constant company and nags me on. Make some pictures you looser…

Do the Work in Guatemala

Posted on Friday 17 May 2013

Many days in Antigua went somewhat like this: Our maid – with the great name Lucky – cooked breakfast and shouted “Raymundo, Flemming, desayunooooo!” at me and fellow house-mate Raymond, in our small B&B. We’d stumble out to coffee and a freshly cooked great breakfast. We would wolf down coffee and food trying to warm up in the cold mornings of otherwise warm Antigua. Then I would have Spanish one-on-one lessons with my great teacher Aracely and I would do Spanish homework for hours after that. In the afternoon, the wandering begins. 4-5 hours of restless and relentless walking in the backstreets and markets of Antigua with my camera, always looking, searching, sometimes seeing and occasionally making a picture. Random street photography is not…

Wanderer

Posted on Monday 13 May 2013

“Mad and Magic Raving is a little bit different. It takes an otherwise impossible set of parameters, the space-time continuum and all the universe to warp in a certain way, and a bloody great friend who allows you to be fierce and true without holding back, trusting that someone has your back, utterly and without caveat.” – Charlene Winfred, Invoking the Magic of the Open Road I made this photo on The Mad and Magic Raving Tour Part II in April with Charlene — she is starring in this image from the rather magic Monument Valley. And she wrote an absolute beautiful must-read story about our trip, titled Invoking the Magic of the Open Road. Making the impossible possible seems to be what we…

The Story of a Boy

Posted on Sunday 5 May 2013

Story of a Boy who Stares at the Stars Wishing for the Universe. Story of a boy who wanders the world in a pretend time-machine. Story of a boy who re-invented himself and became what he always was. Story of a boy who never wants to grew up. Story of a boy who wanted to be Luke Skywalker. Story of a boy who exists in both light and shadows. Story of a boy who could never quite be healed. Story of a boy, very old, very alone, very kind, and the very last of his kind. Story of a boy who never stops dreaming. Story of a boy who always stares at sunsets. Story of a boy who can fly as long as he…

Notes from my Journal of Impossible Things – April 2013

Posted on Friday 26 April 2013

Journal of Impossible Things From New Mexico, a random collection of notes and news from the past 6 weeks – from my Journal of Impossible Things. Many things good and bad have happened, not many dull moments in the life of a time-traveler. I cannot seem to get my head around writing anything at the moment. Whenever I try to put letters together they fight me and sentences end distorted not saying what I intend. There is an electrical current running through me blocking the signal. So here are some random sentences and images, hopefully allowing friends and followers to catch up. FUJI X-Photographer Fuji Japan asked me to be one of their official FUJI X-photographers and I am happy and proud to be…

Things that happened to me on my 901st birthday

Posted on Monday 8 April 2013

Nine hundred and one years old time-traveling jedi. I am still a young time-lord although at times I do feel my 900 years of mileage. I had a birthday. A splendid one actually, thanks to my friend Charlene Winfred, who made my day and made these images of incredible stories I added to my Journal of Impossible Things on my 901st birthday. Muchas gracias mi amiga por un día fantástico. Life seems to happen to me in cycles and waves. This 901st birthday was a much needed change. It appears the tide is finally going slowly out and I am drowning less. The past 3-4 months have been primarily plagued by long stretches of bad luck, bad karma, bad decisions – or decisions that…

The Blue Box and The Red Sofa at the End of the Universe

Posted on Tuesday 12 March 2013

Been knocking about for a bit already this year. Things to do, people to see, places to be – as always. Different projects, different places, different moods, different versions of me. This is but a few fragmented tales and images of the past few months. Began the year in cold winterstruck Copenhagen. My first Copenhagen winter in 4 years, and yes suffice to say, not really my favourite time of the year in Copenhagen. Was just about as horrible, no maybe a bit worse, than I remember it. Being with friends and family was always, very nice. The neverending paradox of having a life in a place where I do not wish to live, outside of Summer. So I pretend I have a blue…

To Be a Kid Again: Luke and Chewie

Posted on Thursday 7 March 2013

Following up To Be a Kid Again I must post this. My favourite portrait of me. Ever. Luke Skywalker as a kid on our farm, with “Chewbacca”. Granted, I am far too young in this image to know about Star Wars, but still, I believe the force was strong with me even at this age. I mean, just look at that Skywalker haircut. Our awesome dog was actually not named Chewbacca, but Daisy. Daisy never left my side. We took long, long walks into the fields surrounding our farm. Scared of lightning and thunder, she would bite the doorhandles and manage to open every door in our house and find her way to my room and bed at night during storms. She was my…

To Be a Kid Again

Posted on Tuesday 26 February 2013

To Be a Kid Again. Cusco, Peru, a nice afternoon in December. I lean over the bridge. Observe life in this part of Cusco, outside of the touristy center, this is unfiltered Cusco life. I am quite close to where I am staying, the home of me amigo Adam of PhotoExperience.Net tours. Three boys are playing, throwing rocks at each other. Throw rock, dodge rock, run, pickup a new rock, repeat. Simple, fun. I make a few pictures. My mind wanders. To be a kid again. Don’t ever grow up. Well I never did, but to actually be a kid again. Not that it was always good, nostalgia colours the mind, but still. Fun. Innocent. Safe. Unbroken. No filters. Everything is wonderful or terrible…

Burning Man on a Field of Dreams with Snipers on the Roof

Posted on Tuesday 19 February 2013

“Burn it! Burn the fucking thing!”. Feeling of the crowd is quite clear. If possible, if it is not too much of a bother, would sir kindly consider lighting this symbol of all things gloom? Please? Now? BURN THE FUCKING THING! Personally I would pay a gazillion dollars for a bow and flaming arrow. Burn it! Emotions of Zozobra runs high. We are rather eager to set our gloom on fire. But let us begin with the beginning. Zozobra, the burning man of Santa Fe, is held every year and the idea is to write down all your gloom on a piece of paper. These pieces of paper are then placed at the foot of a huge 15 meter tall Zozobra effigy and the…