Maja DANIELS

The isolated valley of Älvdalen (ʻRiver Valleyʼ), in Dalarna, mid-North of Sweden, is not typically Scandinavian. Both landscape and lifestyle seem to have more in common with a 1950s vision of the United States, where hillbilly meets rock-and-roll. The community has come to...

Monette and Mady are identical twins. They have lived their whole life close together and are, as they say, inseparable. I used to see them on the streets of Paris now and then and I was instantly fascinated by their identical outfits and synchronized body language. They stood...

The proportion of elderly people in western society is constantly rising. The number of individuals above the age of 60 is expected to double over the next 25 years – most notably in developed countries. Some 24 million people worldwide suffer from dementia and about half of...

Christiania is the Western world’s longest existing alternative society, an autonomous community in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. Ruled according to codes outside of conventional law and order, Christiania is a self-proclaimed ‘Freetown’, governed by its own...