Europe's new borders.

Over the last couple of years the European borders both external and internal borders have changed due to migrant reaching Europe. This project looks are the consequences and changes of these borders.

As a child of the 80s, I remember the holiday trips in our gray Audi 80 to Spain with the family, I was sitting in the passenger seat beside my father with the card that covered the entire windshield when it was unfolded. When we stayed breaks showed my dad my boundaries on the map, and told about the different countries and cities. Almost on graph when you crossed the border it felt like a new world when as a child suddenly heard German, French and Spanish words for the first time I have on rare occasions were allowed to handover our passports to the borderpolice. March 26, 1995 was the end using our passports through Europe when the Schengen Treaty was implemented almost 10 years after the first had been signed, Europe seemed suddenly a little more united.

Borders is something that is difficult definable for us who have never experienced war or unfriendliness of the European countries, and with both the Schengen agreement and EU enlargement in 2000’s the borders have become increasingly blurred in our consciousness – until 2015.

Fences, barbed wire, armed borderguards have suddenly become the new standard in Europe and when I in the early summer of 2015 was watching all the physical manifestations of something I thought belonged to the past – I decided to photograph how these “new” European borders and what consequences they have and will have for Europe and the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants who these days come to our borders. And at the same time be able to tell something to the scale of these changes and the impact the project is photographed with a home-made drone. The project in unpublished.

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