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March 26, 1995, was the end of using our passports through Europe; when the Schengen Treaty was implemented, almost 10 years after the first had been signed, Europe suddenly seemed a little more united, and free.<\/p><p>Borders are something that is difficult to define for those of us who have never experienced war or unfriendliness in the European countries, and with both the Schengen agreement and EU enlargement in the early 2000s, the borders had become increasingly blurred in our consciousness\u200a\u2014\u200auntil 2015.<\/p><p>Fences, barbed wire, and armed militant border guards have suddenly become the new standard in Europe, and as I, in the early summer of 2015, was watching all the physical manifestations and transformation of something I thought belonged to the past, I decided to photograph these \u201cnew\u201d 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. All this was done using a technology developed by the military: the drone.<\/p><p>My project, Europe\u2019s New Borders, offers a sense of scale on the dehumanized border crisis unfolding in Europe throughout the last two years. It covers most of the borders of the European Union, the transformation of these, and the consequences, big and small, concrete and abstract, for the refugees and migrants.<\/p><p>The project in unpublished.<\/p>","body_raw":"As a child of the 1980s, 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 map that covered the entire windshield when it was unfolded. When we stopped and took a small break my dad showed me the borders on the map, and told about the different countries and cities. When you crossed the border it felt like a new world\u200a\u2014\u200awhen I, as a child, suddenly heard German, French, and Spanish words for the first time, or I was allowed, on rare occasions, to hand over our passports to the border police when we crossed. March 26, 1995, was the end of using our passports through Europe; when the Schengen Treaty was implemented, almost 10 years after the first had been signed, Europe suddenly seemed a little more united, and free.\n\nBorders are something that is difficult to define for those of us who have never experienced war or unfriendliness in the European countries, and with both the Schengen agreement and EU enlargement in the early 2000s, the borders had become increasingly blurred in our consciousness\u200a\u2014\u200auntil 2015.\n\nFences, barbed wire, and armed militant border guards have suddenly become the new standard in Europe, and as I, in the early summer of 2015, was watching all the physical manifestations and transformation of something I thought belonged to the past, I decided to photograph these \u201cnew\u201d 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. All this was done using a technology developed by the military: the drone.\n\nMy project, Europe\u2019s New Borders, offers a sense of scale on the dehumanized border crisis unfolding in Europe throughout the last two years. It covers most of the borders of the European Union, the transformation of these, and the consequences, big and small, concrete and abstract, for the refugees and migrants.\n\nThe project in unpublished.","published_at":"2016-06-13 16:45:47","is_legacy":null,"legacy_id":null,"position":null,"created_at":"2016-06-13 16:22:20","updated_at":"2016-12-07 20:08:07","user_attributes":{"id":22647,"firstname":"Rasmus","lastname":"Degnbol","username":"rasmusdegnbol","name":"Rasmus Degnbol","profile":{"avatar":"\/users\/22647\/avatars\/o66ufsc9af9a18de.jpg","cover_image":null,"nationality":"Danish","currently_in":{"id":40259,"city":"Copenhagen","region":"Capital Region","country":"Denmark","country_code":"DK","continent":"Europe","lat":"55.67594","lon":"12.56553","verified":1,"created_at":"-0001-11-30 00:00:00","updated_at":"2015-11-27 21:50:35","name":"Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark"},"bio":"Rasmus is a freelance photographer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. His work often balances on the edge of whats technological possible. \u201cWe have to explore all these new tools to tell our stories in new ways, but at the same time stay true to the story.\u201d\n\nHis work have been recognised by Museum of Modern Art, New York, PDN Photo Annual, Prix de La Photographie Paris PX3, International Photo Awards (IPA), Danish POY and was the recipient of the 2016 PHMuseum Main Grant for his aerial drone work on Europe\u2019s New Borders.\n\nWhile spending 6 months a year on his own feature stories he also works freelance for New York Times, Le Monde, The Economist, Buzzfeed News amongst many others."}},"meta":{"is_liked":false,"like_count":9},"activity_attributes":{"place":"Greece","image_filename":"\/users\/22647\/stories\/10847\/o8py656a16dc6491.jpg","video_service":null,"video_code":null},"url":"\/rasmusdegnbol\/story\/europe-s-new-borders-5818ebbcca","comments":[],"cover_block_image":{"id":86964,"story_id":10847,"image_id":88353,"video_id":null,"caption":"A small rubber dinghy arrives on the coast of Greek island Lesbos. 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This story is a portrait of how a lie influenced the lives of an entire city and how this lie, even in the age of the internet, left the city stigmatized and crumbling. Today, we find a city in steep decline and once again drifting towards communist ideals and the bygone, better days\u2026<\/p><p>From 1946 to 1968, the city of Mailuu-Suu supplied the Soviet Union with yellowcake uranium for nuclear warheads and power plants. After 1968, the mines were closed, sealed and the waste was left, forgotten. <\/p><p>After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly independent Kyrgyzstan became victim to high rates of government fraud, on both the local and national level. In this case, an international organization used the history of the city to manufacture false research reports on the area\u2019s radioactive pollution. This report put Mailuu-Suu in the international spotlight by ranking it as the fourth most radioactively polluted city in the world.<\/p><p>The international community reacted quickly, sending World Bank funds to the city. But little of this money reached the city itself. In the words of the mayor, Satybaldiev Kianbek Urmamatovich, \u201cThe city never had the need of relocating the uranium waste. It should never have been touched, and we never saw much more than two of the seven million USD. Organizations used a false version of our story to get money\u2014and now the city is known for something it never was. How can we rebuild with this rumor?\u201d<\/p><p>With the internet comes a long memory\u2014nothing is forgotten and nothing can be judged truly. Tourism and new business opportunities avoid the city. 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