From my ongoing exploration of placed where The Common used to be. As the city is now building on Amager Fælled, I'm visiting places that was once wild and is now paved over.

More about the project here: https://www.emilryge.com/the-common

Like countless others, I’m currently considering leaving Facebook and Instagram.

First of all, it seems unsustainable to spend time on platforms that not only profit every time I use them, but have also become weapons in a political battle with the American president at the center.

But just as importantly, I can clearly feel how all these online platforms fragment my attention.

Feels appropriate for the times.

Spending too much time pondering what to do and what makes sense at the moment.

It’s not often I do editorial photography, but recently my wife Sigrid Nygaard asked me if I would help her photograph a series of portraits of women, who told their individuel stories about getting abortions. We did it on wet plate and had a lot of fun and a fair share of technical challenges along the way. Lærke Cramon did the interviews - on both audio and text.

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Spent the weekend working on an editiorial assignment done on wet plate collodion.

It’s an interesting process to work with, but I did face some fairly intense chemical issues this time.

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I’ve spent quite a few hours on The Common these last few days. We’re a group of volunteers documenting what we claim is wrongful cutting down of brushes and trees.

It’s simultaneously great to spend a lot of time outside, but also depressing having to fight all these fights with the city and developers.

An 8x10 inch wet plate collodion image of my dear cousin, Malthe.

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