Angeling

At Aarhus harbor, people take over an abandoned dock and turn its supposed parking lot into a space of recreation.
The depth of the inlay, the amount of mackerel lured in by the ferry and the convenient reach of the area by car, allow local anglers an easy and rewarding fishing.
Though most say that it is not so much the catch that makes them come here. As building grows denser at Aarhus harbor and modern life takes its toll on peoples everyday, most of them seek a place "away from the device, the next deal, the problems and worries" and they come to this fallow landscape to "relax (...) be alone (...) be with friends (...) drink coffee (...) just enjoy life".
Many of them have been fishing since their childhood, connecting family memories to the rod and the catch. However, the areas in which these anglers and their families used to go fishing have been increasingly reduced.
When, in the wake of 9/11, George Bush declared
"War on Terror", anglers in Denmark met with its
reverberations. As these locals know to tell, all danish harbor zones with international shipping docks, have been fenced off in order to be secured from potential threads by prospective terrorists. Some resist, as is the case of one man from Esbjerg,
who took to a bolt cutter each day anew to go fishing
where he had gone fishing for the past fifty years.
Most people adjust, making do with the makeshift spaces they can yet find within the city.

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