PHOTO
The photograph was taken at the public library in inner Copenhagen. It portrays an elderly woman, who is retired as an artist. In the foreground of the picture is the table that the lady is sitting by. On the table there is a cup of coffee, a jar of sugar, a magazine that the lady is reading and a napkin. The lady is looking up from her magazine, participating in a conversation with us as we are asking her questions. In the background we can see a man rushing by on the street outside the glass doors. Another woman is sitting in a chair by the window. The colours are golden and there is an intense white light coming into the room from the windows. We walked into the library expecting to find some young-studying-stereotypes. There were plenty of those people sitting in the library, but what caught our eye was this older lady sitting outside the circle of the young studying people. She seemed calm and relaxed in composition to the stressed and busy all around her.