Hospital

Hospital

It varies how people cope with fear. One of the places I do not like is the hospital.
It is in fact quiet ironic as my wife is a critical care nurse and has been working as such since we met.

When our daughter had to be rushed to the hospital one day, one of my first thoughts was to grab the camera. For some Photographers the camera is a good defense mechanism. In some situations I am much more at ease behind the camera than with out it. I feel more in control of the situation. Of course I have had situations where I felt highly uncomfortable taking pictures and that is probably among the reasons why I am not a press Photographer as I started out to be.

At one time I was contacted by a magazine and asked to cover a happening at one of the biggest nightclubs Iceland has. They had tried to get a hold of a woman to to do the job, as this was the womens night out, but could not find one and where desperate. I was, beside the dancers, the only man in the house. 3000 women where there having a time out, and I was there in their way. I got my self out of there ASAP. But still I did the job. As soon as the camera gets in front of the face you have a mask. Not every body likes that mask but for you it works and gives you breathing space to finish what you came there to do.

Any way. This time I grabbed the camera with out thinking and while our daughter was being examined by the doctors and we where waiting for the results I wandered around the corridors, snapping away trying to relax.

This is the feeling I got from the hospital that day.

Enjoy the slideshow here-->Hospital slideshow

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