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.

Essays 1 · Frames in archive 15

Essays.

Selected 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.
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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.
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Young people crouching around a small fire on tarmac, holding their hands out over the flames, Cape Town.
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Person's blurred silhouette seen through steamed glass covered in water droplets, Cape Town.
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A woman in a cap laughing with her fists raised in the back of a minibus taxi, other passengers talking behind her.
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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.
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A woman in a pale dress standing on a narrow traffic island in front of a bookshop window, framed by dark vertical edges.
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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.
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