Besides being a super cute Dane with Inuit blood who kicks our asses at drinking and eating humongous cinnamon buns, Camilla Stephan's given us great Greenlandic stories like Sittin’ On Top Of The World and An Arctic Wave Of Teenage Suicide. We spoke to her about some of her favorite pictures.
I took that picture above on my way to visit a Lebanese family who’d just returned to their apartment after being forced to leave their home and everything they owned. The streets of Beirut were filled with soldiers and tanks and I’d been told not to take pictures. All of a sudden I saw an innocent little boy walking right by a huge tank. I only got to take three pictures then some soldier dude ran towards me. I pulled my stupid tourist act, which worked like a charm and instead of getting thrown in jail and have my camera smashed I walked away with one of my best pictures.
The little Greenlandic girl is called Malaviak and she lives in the northernmost city in the world. Only 650 people live here. It was her third birthday and she wore a white shirt, pearls, and a beautiful homemade hat. I had to get down on my knees to get in the same height as her and I remember the smell of seal meat soup cooking in the kitchen. It’s a tradition that whenever someone has a birthday you put up a note in the city’s only shop to invite everyone round. People showed up with coins or candy to give to the birthday girl.
I took this picture at a zombie crawl night in Copenhagen. A zombie crawl is when hundreds of people dress up as zombies and go to as many bars as possible to drink as much as possible. I got some great pics that night, especially from when a bunch of zombies decided to go shopping in a local supermarket. Never in my life have I seen such a confused cashier.
zombie crawl!!!! brilliant! why dont these exist in the states?!
Posted by: zombee | 27/02/2009 at 16:20
this is frustrating! she keeps talking about all the other pictures she took which were "the best" but she didn't include them! I wanna seeee
Posted by: woothoot | 27/02/2009 at 16:30
where are the rest of the zombies? and maybe they should call it the zombie stumble. that would make more sense. like they should have everyone walk all zombie-like between the bars, drooling and everything. that would be the only way i'd ever do a bar crawl.
Posted by: stevie dicks | 27/02/2009 at 16:31
there WAS a zombie crawl in New York, around halloween. I remember walking in Union Square and seeing hordes of preteen boys running around with fake blood.
Posted by: shyte | 27/02/2009 at 16:34
dude even zombified his briefcase. that's dedication to a theme night right there.
Posted by: alexander | 27/02/2009 at 17:26
the descriptions on the photos make me feel warm inside, even though she's talking about tanks and children of war.
kudos!
Posted by: anonymous | 27/02/2009 at 18:10
There's a crawl in Portland, Oregon every year right around Oct 30th. Be there.
Posted by: Timothy Leary | 27/02/2009 at 19:04
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