Journal of photographer Flemming Bo Jensen

Photographer, Time Traveler, Writer and Nomad

Posts from the “Panorama” Category

Peru Photo Story: Solitude

Posted on January 23rd, 2012

The Andes. Ancient and majestic mountains, windy, cold and unforgiving. The road snakes through the desolate and uninviting landscape. The sky is white, the wind fierce and colours are muted to a stark monochrome mood. Yet, here in this extreme environment people live and make their lives. More a mood than a story, these pictures were made in the Andes mountains of Peru driving from Arequipa to Chivay. This was the third story I submitted for the group reviews in the brilliant Adam Weintraub PhotoExperience.net workshop with Daniel Milnor. The solitude spoke to me instantly. I know it well having mapped out that feeling intensely. I chose black and white as I wished to do a different story at this time in the workshop,…

Categories: Landscape, Panorama, Peru, Photo, Photography, Portrait, South America, Travel

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Copenhagen Nightwalking

Posted on October 26th, 2011

Charlene Winfred, a dear friend of mine, has a great long running photo series on Nightwalking featuring some awesome images of Perth at night. Long have I promised her to do a similar shoot in Copenhagen. Long have I had plans to wake up at 2am in Summer and go night walking – at Summer darkness does not win over light until around midnight. That never happened, so instead I spent two freezing evenings in October roaming the city and I have finally captured a few images of Copenhagen by Night – read on.

Categories: Copenhagen, Denmark, Panorama, Photo, Photography

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The Road

Posted on October 13th, 2011

I am driving in the desert. Just driving. The road runs straight as an arrow to infinity. Makes me feel safe. Feel less. The desolate nothingness is overwhelming and pleasingly numbing. Calms the storm. The hypnotic hum of the wheels mix in with the music. Drown out the voices. The car has become an extension of me. I feel in control. Driving the car pauses just enough brain cells to halt the free fall. A fast moving car turns out to be a perfect place to forget about my problems. The desert is my sole companion. My only conversation for a month was provided by border patrol officers–pulled me over near Mexico. I pass small towns. There is a world happening somewhere but I…

Categories: Arizona, California, Landscape, Nevada, New Mexico, Panorama, Photography, Travel, USA, Utah

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James Price Point video and Exhibition

Posted on September 27th, 2011

If visitors arrived from another planet and took an overall view of our common problems, I presume they would tell us “overpopulation, lack of drinking water, lack of food, and you are ruining your own home, your planet”. Now; it would be naive to think we can do without the natural resources of our planet such as natural gas, but we must act in a sustainable way, and not succumb to greed and short sighted solutions – such as placing the world’s largest gas hub right in one of the world’s few remaining areas of wilderness. Having previously blogged about James Price Point perhaps you are already familiar with the campaign to save James Price Point and have the world’s largest gas hub built…

Categories: Australia, Broome, Kimberley, Landscape, Outback, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Travel

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Asia Stories book release

Posted on September 9th, 2011

  I am proud to present my book Asia Stories featuring stories from Papua New Guinea, Laos and Cambodia. The images in this book contain some of the stories that have affected me deeply during the first two years of my life on the road. The experiences I gathered, people I met, places I visited, and lessons I learnt, changed me almost completely. Little exists of the person I was before. The books is 138 pages, hardcover with dust jacket and printed on gorgeous thick Mohawk uncoated cotton paper with a lovely textured art feel to it. Watch a video about the book: Asia Stories is for sale via Blurb.com, you order the book directly on the Blurb website and the book is shipped…

Categories: Cambodia, Landscape, Laos, Panorama, Papua New Guinea, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Travel

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The town of Pangkalan Bun

Posted on August 19th, 2011

All my sensory inputs are experiencing firsts. My nose detects a unique mixture of tropical humidity, heat, people, teak wood huts, spices, fried meat, fish, vegetables, sewage and diesel exhaust from boats. The colours are vibrant and rich. Everything is painted in saturated tones, longboats, huts and clothes. Colourful advertisement posters are utilised as decoration. It seems all the colours of the world has gathered to party in this town. The river is life, the river is where the children swim, where the laundry is done, where the sewage floats, where the longboats’ engine puffs black smoke, where fishing is done; the river is the source of all activity. The river is alive with sounds, children laughing, people talking, cooking food, hanging out, water…

Categories: Landscape, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Travel

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Limited edition of my upcoming photo book

Posted on August 11th, 2011

I am presently (with great help from my editor Charlene Winfred) putting the finishing touches on my upcoming photo book, something I am very excited about. The 138 page book has been carefully edited, sequenced and written and features 4 stories from Asia, essays and more than 60 images, from Papua New Guinea, Laos and Cambodia. The book will be 25×20 cm in size and printed on gorgeous professional Mohawk heavy fine art paper. To the right is a sneak preview from the layout in Indesign. The book will be available via Blurb.com and available to order in 2-3 weeks. I am considering selling a batch of limited edition signed copies and would like to hear if there’s interest in this. The price for…

Categories: Cambodia, Landscape, Laos, Panorama, Papua New Guinea, Photo, Photography, Portrait

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Nomad Magazine issue 1 – Home

Posted on July 23rd, 2011

It is exciting to present my first publication, a magazine called Nomad featuring stories and images from my on-going journey as a nomad photographer. The first story of Nomad focuses on the subject of ‘Home’. What is home to a nomad? What is the feeling of home? Featuring 30 images of homes captured by me around the world to show the many different ways in which we live. Price is only $20 – click here to purchase on the magcloud website. Below is a video of the magazine. PS. Yes, I ended up breaking my own rule of no self-promotion rather quickly. And I need to wave my arms around a little less on video!

Categories: Landscape, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Travel

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Home

Posted on July 4th, 2011

HOME. It is more than a place, more than a location. It is a feeling and a state of mind. Home is usually associated with many memories. Home can be a place you are very attached to. Home can be filled with stuff that helps you define who you are and your relation to the world. ‘Home is where the heart is’ goes the saying, although I am not entirely certain what this means. ‘This place feels like home’ is another saying, one I have said myself on occasions. In reality it makes little sense as I find we always tend to say this almost right upon arriving. What then is the feeling of home? The feeling of home is no doubt very important…

Categories: Africa, Bangkok, California, Cambodia, Copenhagen, Denmark, Kenya, Landscape, Laos, Panorama, Papua New Guinea, Photo, Photography, Portrait, Thailand, Travel, USA

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BZ Søminen meets Fuji X100

Posted on June 16th, 2011

Saturday the 26th of May I halfway stumbled into this demonstration and event called ‘BZ søminen’. In Danish it means basically ‘squatting the abandoned building called Søminen’. The event was very peaceful, colourful and fun to cover. My Fuji X100 did well for this type of documentary reportage job. It was a lovely sunny day, the police was there but chose wisely to remain passive and not escalate the situation into violence, instead allowing the hundreds of people to have a party all night. It felt like a large picnic. The police easily cleared the building Monday morning at 5am where only 11 people remained. This is my story from the day: Read on for more images…

Categories: Camera, Copenhagen, Denmark, Fuji X100, Panorama, Photo, Photography, Portrait

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