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CPOY 74 Domestic Picture Story Silver: The Place Where Nothing Can Change

Denmark is changing and evolving all the time, but in the small hut town on Vaernengene nothing must change. In the nature area Vaernengene at the bottom of Ringkoebing Fjord in Denmark, lies 327 small huts. Originally the huts were built by hunters for sleeping between hunting days. However, the huts were built on protected land. Therefore, for many years, they were meant to be torn down, but eventually the huts were protected. They were allowed to stay on one condition. The huts must never change, either in appearance, size or anything else. Since then, the small hunting huts have been in hibernation and must always remain as a primitive hut town". It has made the place a unique area where nothing is changing except the people who visit the place of hunting, enjoying the nature and primitive life, the way it has been done for almost a hundred years. This is the story of people who have an important part of their lives in and around the primitive huts at vaernengene.

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Slide 7 of 8
November 16, 2018
Mikkel Ousen is 24 years old, and is the third generation in the family, who go hunting at vaernengene. He works in the ambulance and rescue service in Fredericia, nearly 130 kilometers away. Almost all of his spare time is spent on going to the hut. If the weather is promising for hunting, he even tries to swap his shifts at work so he can visit the area. Mikkel's first rifle was a wooden toy gun, which he always carried around when he was a child. His present rifle is a gift from his grandfather.
Kenneth Koustrup / Danish School Journalism
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