Hospital 006

<p>It varies how people cope with fear. One of the places I do not like is the hospital.<br />It is in fact quiet ironic as my wife is a critical care nurse and has been working as such since we met.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This is the feeling I got from the hospital that day.</p>