Showing posts with label magnus. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

The Globetrotter

All the way from South America

If you see someone with a camera at Krigslida chances are that it's me photographing smiling joggers or weird machines. So when I spotted this guy out shooting, I zoomed in on him to see who he was. This is Magnus. He grew up here but moved away when he was eighteen. Today he was back to see what had changed. And he has travelled quite a bit. All the way from São Paulo in Brazil. Magnus works for Ericsson and has been living abroad for around five years. After the summer holidays he will go back to South America, but then he will probably move to Santiago, Chile where he was stationed before, and that's also where his girlfriend lives. It's a great life he told me. He has been able to visit a few interesting places like Easter Island. Before South America he was based in South Africa and he has also worked in the USA, so he is quite the globetrotter. He told me that it was a strange feeling walking around here compared to the crowded cities in Chile and Brazil and that he felt that people here were staring at him when he walked around with his camera aiming it to all the familiar places from his youth. I didn't have a notebook on me today but when I saw a woman in her garden looking at us I walked over and got some writing paper from her.