Romania is one of Europe’s poorest countries. While the majority of the lower income population lives in the countryside, it is in the northern outskirts of Bucharest where the better educated and generally better off Romanians are found. Engineers, lawyers, business people and doctors. Many of them working for big multinational companies. Since the fall of communism many gated communities have been built in the north of Bucharest, and become a kind of micro utopias separated from the outside by fences and guards. Cosmopolis, located some 15km north of the city center, is not the richest of these communities, but the biggest of them. It currently houses around 3500 people in 2000 units (apartment blocks, two-family homes and one family villas). The entire project is for 10 000 units if it is ever fully built. This body of work is my contribution to a documentary/art project on the theme of "Bucharest Microtopias" that was made possible by an artist residence program organised by the city of Bucharest, where five Nordic photographers were invited to participate. Each photographer chose a particular area or community of the city to document. I chose to explore the gated habitats of the better-off Romanians, and found myself in Cosmopolis.

Outside the little town Richford, upstate New York, lies Michigan Hill - named so by the people who were on their way to Michigan, but decided to settle here. Over the hill runs a dusty road: Rockefeller Road, named so after the man who was born here in 1839: John D Rockefeller - who became the World's richest man. Perhaps no other person embodies the "American Dream" like John D Rockefeller. A self made billionaire who shaped America and influenced the whole world in his time. The people who live on the muddy road today, don't dream the same dreams. They most of all want to be left alone and care much more for hunting and cannabis than for founding oil companies and building empires. This body of work represents a span of six years since my first visit to Rockefeller Road in 2007.

The Pax Marie abbey of Saint Birgitta in Vadstena, Sweden, is one of the few remaining where Birgittine sisters live according to the original medieval convent rules of Saint Birigitta. Vadstena is the place where St Birgitta founded her order in the middle ages. The eleven nuns who live in this closed convent have very strictly organized lives where prayer and work are the key elements. Following The Order of the Day, all days are equal with prayer in the choir on specific hours five times a day. In 2003 the 700th anniversary of Saint Birgitta's birth was celebrated. St Birgitta is Sweden's only saint, and patron of Europe.

Over the years I have found myself in Las Vegas numerous times on various assignments. I have developed some kind of love-hate relationship to this at the same time horrible and fascinating place. To me Las Vegas, usually presents an onslaught on all human senses, an overload of all possible impressions at once. I think it was while trying to save my eyes from all the blinking lights and craziness around me, when I looked down to avoid it all, that I discovered that even the floor was no refuge, and that even more visual madness was to be found there. Since that moment the carpets of Las Vegas have intrigued me, and on every occasion I find myself in Las Vegas I study and photograph them.

A common trait for all Scandinavians is how our lives, habits, traditions and culture are affected by daylight and its changes with the seasons. The yearning for light and the romanticised notion of the summer night, brings life to people and places during the summer’s short nights. This series is a result of a journey through Norway and Sweden during the year’s brightest and shorterst nights. How does our obsession with light constitue itself when we “get to live the most”?

Barack Obama is reelected as the 44th President of the United States. Scenes from Election Night at the McCormick Center in Chicago.

Tory Island is situated in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Donegal in northwestern Ireland. It is a small rocky island where no trees grow, and where people have lived for thousands of years. The island is 1km across and 5km long. Reflecting a unique very old tradition, a king is chosen by consensus of the islanders. The current King of Tory is painter Patsaí Dan Mac Ruaidhrí (Patsy Dan Rodgers in English). The king has no formal powers; though duties include being a spokesperson for the island community and welcoming people to the island. In August 2010, the King of Tory confirmed that there were 96 people living on the island. In the 70's a fierce storm cut off the island for many weeks, and after that the Irish government tried to make people leave. Many left, but have since returned. Today the population is again shrinking, due to unemployment. The fishing is not good anymore, and there are no other jobs. If the children of the island leave, a many-thousand-year old civilization will disappear. (Please observe that some of the caption information is outdated.)

Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and their supporters in South Carolina, USA

The Newspaper industry is struggling as people get their news online for free.

On January 13 2009 The New York Times reported that The Amato Opera will close after the end of it's 61st season in May 2009. The Amato Opera company was founded by husband and wife Tony and Sally Amato in 1948. The opera house is located on The Bowery, in New York's East Village, next door to where the legendary punk rock club CBGB used to be. While Tony acted as artistic director, selecting the productions, auditioning and casting, rehearsing and training the cast and conducting most of the performances, his wife Sally functioned as seamstress, light board operator, cook, box office manager, publicist, business manager, and, as Serafina Bellantoni, singer for the company until her death in 2000. Today Tony at the age of 88 is still running the company like he promised his wife he would, and the Amato Opera maintains its goals of providing opera at a reasonable price and giving promising singers stage experience in full-lenght productions.

Iten, is a small Kenyan town that has produced more world champion runners than any other place on Earth..The combination of high altitude, extreme motivation (winning a European marathon will earn a runner more money than his family could be making in a lifetime), and very hard work - most runners in Iten run around 20km per day, year round.

It’s called racing, but the cars don’t move. The person who produces the loudest noise inside of their car wins - but no one can hear it - it’s too dangerous to sit inside. Tens of thousands of people all over the world are obsessed by watching the sound pressure level rise - to levels far above what a jet engine produces. This is dB Drag Racing.

New York Society Balls is a documentary photographic project by Swedish photographer Chris Maluszynski. The project came about when the photographer who had recently moved to New York from Stockholm, was unexpectedly given a ticket to a charity ball at the Plaza Hotel only because he could dance the waltz. Finding himself in a world he did not imagine existed the day before, he saw an opportunity to commence a project about this “hidden world”, one of countless others in the city where so many realities coexist without necessarily ever meeting. Some more closed than others, but all finally accessible with the right invitation and an open mind. The essence and beauty of the city that has it all. By getting to know the younger crowd at his first ball, he was invited to others, and participated in them both as a dancer and guest, but always bringing his camera. Not being interested in the celebrities that frequented these events, he focused more on the atmosphere and ambiance in these great ballroooms of the New World - all seemingly aspiring to their Old World counterparts. In Hotels such as The Plaza, The Waldorf-Astoria and The Pierre, the society of New York meets to dine, dance and donate money to charity. Debutantes and their escorts open the balls with a dance called a Quadrille. For some of the balls, they practice this opening dance for many months - getting to know each other and forming couples in their “own crowd”.