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Portrait of Mads Nørgaard

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Mads Nørgaard

Director of International Programmes and Partnerships

Documentary photographer. Senior developer and DevOps engineer based in Skanderborg, Denmark. Self-taught. 15 years building on Drupal, PHP, Docker, and Linux. Currently at Eksponent, a Danish development agency based in Copenhagen. Also technical lead for South African History Online since 2018.

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Essays 1 · Frames in archive 15

Essays.

Young people crouching around a small fire on tarmac, holding their hands out over the flames, Cape Town.

A point of passage

Newest frames.

High-angle black and white photograph of two long single-decker buses parked on a street, with pedestrians and their long shadows on the pavement.
Cape Town · 2010Mads Nørgaard

Golden Arrow buses on the rank at first light, seen from above, the shadows longer than the people.

Close-up black and white photograph of a hand in a dark knitted cuff held open above a fire, with other hands out of focus behind.
Cape Town · 2010Mads Nørgaard

A child's hand over the same fire, closer.

Young people crouching around a small fire on tarmac, holding their hands out over the flames, Cape Town.
Cape Town · 2010Mads Nørgaard

Illegal immigrant with their hands out over a fire of scrap in the road, before the Home Affairs opens on the dock.

Person's blurred silhouette seen through steamed glass covered in water droplets, Cape Town.
Cape Town · 2010Mads Nørgaard

A figure stands behind wet glass, present as a shape and nothing more.

A woman in a cap laughing with her fists raised in the back of a minibus taxi, other passengers talking behind her.
Cape Town · 2011Mads Nørgaard

Word reaches the taxi that the Springboks have won, and a passenger throws her head back with both fists up while the row behind her carries on.

Photograph taken from below of a police officer in a tactical vest with both hands raised in a shop doorway, two men standing inside behind him.
Cape Town · 2014Mads Nørgaard

An officer in body armour raises both hands in a shop doorway while two men watch from inside.

A woman in a pale dress standing on a narrow traffic island in front of a bookshop window, framed by dark vertical edges.
Cape Town · 2012Mads Nørgaard

A woman waits on the traffic island outside a bookshop, seen through the gap between two dark shapes.

a large painted leopard and arrows on a peeling wall, with a man in a white jacket sitting on a low ledge in the doorway to the right, Woodstock, Cape Town.
Cape Town · 2012Mads Nørgaard

A man sits in a doorway beside a painted antelope and two arrows, his bedding rolled up next to him.

A church facade with two illuminated crosses and a lit sign, a blurred car passing and a man pushing a trolley on the right, Cape Town.
Cape Town · 2011Mads Nørgaard

Two lit crosses on the front of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a car going past, a man pushing his trolley home along the kerb.

Blikkiesdorp - a large settlement of identical corrugated iron structures in ruled rows, with mountains behind and a boy bending over backwards on sand in the foreground.
Cape Town · 2011Mads Nørgaard

Numbered structures in ruled lines to the horizon, and a boy turning himself over in the sand outside the fence.

A young man in a striped shirt in profile on a crowded train, one hand to his cheek, another passenger holding the pole beside him.
Cape Town · 2009Mads Nørgaard

A young man rests his hand against his face on the morning train, the carriage packed around him.

The interior ceiling of a train carriage, with a passenger in silhouette below.
Cape Town · 2010Mads Nørgaard

Vents, a light that is not on, and a passenger's head against the dark.

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