For the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs I was assigned to photograph EU Commissioner mrs. Margrethe Vestager. It made me really happy because it was the 3rd time I could meet her, and she’s just really very sympathetic.
She also is one of the rare Commissioners that decorated her room in a cosy way. This must be the Danish taste for design, but her working room is full of art, great furniture, and a lot of photography books. A really nice place to be, stuffed with nice things, but still very bright, and tidy. If she wasn’t a commissioner, I would ask her to do the interior design of my house.
Now my Finnish isn’t fluently, but from the interview I discovered that mrs. Vestager has about exactly the same age I do, (5 days younger) which makes me feel even closer to her.
-though I only met her these few times, and only for an hour or so, where I am the one photographing, and the journalist does the talking-
However, I was very pleased to find out, when mrs. Anna-Kaisa Hiltunen, the journalist of the Finnish Journal of Foreign Affairs, with whom I had a great talk and a latte just before the interview, sent me the pdf of the magazine, that they choose for the Black and White portraits I sent.
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