People gather at a temporary amusement park on the harbour in Vagur in the south of the Faroe Islands, during the Joansoeka midsummer festival.

A view of the mountain Stodlafjall from nearby Sydragota as the sun sets.

Daniel Peter (75) lives alone in his childhood home in the little village Sumba. He said sailing in his 20s and 30s made it difficult for him to settle with wife and family. Also he says: ''Some peopl...

Brothers Klaemint (72) and Nicodemus (69) having dinner in their home in Sand, on the island Sandoy. They are unmarried and live together in the house where they grew up. Klaemint is still a fisherman...

A Saturday night dance at the community house.

Rogni (26) and Odin (25) take a hot tub late at night. They are visiting a friend who is working as a tour guide during summer.

The village Mykines on the island of the same name.

After hours soaking in a hot tub, a group of friends party into the morning on the little village Mykines. From the right: Oluf (18) with his girlfriend Ronja (18), Rogni (26), Odin (25) and Anna Mari...

Kjell (46) with his ATV. He has a few sheep and works at the airport. He is unmarried, having, he says, ''never met the right woman''.

Jan (37) smokes a cigarette at a partys. The artist says: ''The men here are changing. Our traditions taught us how a man should be, but we need to progress. A new generation is taking over, it just t...

Snow and fog on an April day in Klaksvik, the second largest town of the Faroe Islands.

Plastic flowers decorate a basement workshop.

Paetur and his dogs outside his home in Kaldbaksbotnur. He is a construction worker and a sheep farmer.

Three friends take a break during a sheep slaughtering sessiom at Paetur's farm in Kaldbaksbotnur.

The church in Vidareidi, which is the northern most settlement in the Faroe Islands on the island Vidoy. The houses are spread out over the evergreen valley, protected by high mountains on two sides....

A woman passing a row of seated men at an evening dance during the Joansoeka midsummer festival.

One of the few apartment blocks in the Faroes on the outskirts of Torshavn, the capital. The block was built in the 1970s and is used for social housing.

A rowing team carry their boat from the water after a rowing contest on Olavsoka, the national holiday.

Fridi, 27, smokes and drinks beer during the G! music festival in Sydragøta. He grew up in this small village, but now lives and works in Torshavn, the capital, with his girlfriend. 'Faroese women ar...

Three young friends in the harbour in Hvannasund. Hans Jacob (middle) and Arnold (right).

Three men hurry across a beach when they see whales approaching land during the whaling season in Hvannasund. While international animal rights groups criticise the hunt as being cruel and unnecessary...

The ferry between Hvannasund, Svinoy and Kyrkja.

Two young men return from hunting by boat to Hvannasund harbour.

People dragging whales slaughtered during a hunt up onto the beach.

Eivind (25) wakes up after sleeping for a couple of hours on the fishing boat that he is working on together with his father Janus and his cousin Andrias.

Fridi and Asbjorn, both 13, with their diving gear to go diving for fish in the river in Hvalvik. They catch the fish by hand.

A rowing team from Fuglafjordur prepares for the national rowing championship.

Bjorn, a fisherman, stands in front of the cairn he built while training to for a strongest man competition in his village. Unfortunately he injured his leg and was not able to enter the annual Strong...

A young man hugging his friend after he won a sheep slaughtering contest during the village's autumn festival. In the contest, people competing on a stage to see who could slaughter a sheep fastest.

A view of the island of Sandoy from the ferry that sails between Skupun and Gammalraett. Many people live on Sandoy and work in Torshavn commuting for 30 minutes via ferry.

A view of a fish farm on Bordoy. Fishing is the main industry on the Faroe islands and is mainly done by men.

Every day at one o'clock Aadne and Joannes (52) eat dinner at their father's house. Aadne and Joannes are twin brothers and are both unmarried.

Men skinning and butchering sheep at a farm in Kaldbaksbotnur which consists of just this one single farm.

Paetur (43) in the living room in his childhood home, where he lives together with his grandmother. He used to study theology in Denmark, but decided to take over the family farm. Paetur is unmarried,...

Paetur walking towards his home in Kaldbaksbotnur after feeding sheep. He says that the close relationship between family members in the Faroese culture becomes a substitute and a security for unmarri...

A young man carrying a rope and an anchor prepares to go whale hunting in Hvannasund.

Hans Jakob (35) in the harbour where he and his friends often meet..

A dead fulmar bird hangs by the neck after having had its feathers removed. Fulmar hunting is popular among young men in the Faroes. Their bodies are singed after the feathers have been removed before...

Hans Jacob and his friend spend an evening together in a shack in the harbour. They're drinking spirits and preparing fulmar birds they've caught by removing their feathers, singing their bodies and t...

A concert during a village festival celebrating autumn.

Johan (67), a retired fisherman who worked as a fisherman his whole life, and never thought of marrying or having a family. Even now that he is retired, he still goes to the harbour every day to meet...

A road through the mountainous landscape on the island of Bordoy.

A road through the landscape, surrounded by green hills and steep mountains. The weather on the Faroes is characterised by rapid changes, with mild winters and cool summers, marked by lots of rain and...

Andrias Justesen (56) eating lunch with his mother Olova (82). Andrias is one of many unmarried fishermen. He doubts he will ever find a girlfriend. He lives together with his mother in the very north...

A cat staring at a leg of dried sheep meat in the home of Andrias Justesen. The meat dries outside from September until December.

Young men take an evening swim in the cold waters during the G! music festival in Sydrugota. The G! Festival is an outdoor music festival which takes place on the beach of the village which is also ho...

A group of friends and neighbours help to collect sheep during the shearing season in the spring. Working with sheep is crucial to Faroese identity and it also allows people to meet and socialise.

Tor Egil (65) has an afternoon nap in his living room in Sand, on the island Sandoy. He has worked as a fisherman, a car mechanic and musician. ''When I am at sea, I am tied to work. Therefore I enjoy...

A ferry boat carrying people and supplies moors at a small harbour on Mykines. The island is about 10 square kilometers, and is the western most island of the Faroe Islands.

The entire village, more than 400 people, follows Johan F. Magnussen (87) to the grave. The funeral was held in the church in Midvagur. Johan had eight children, 23 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildr...

Halldur (72) in his home in Kunoy. He grew up in this house and now lives there alone. He is a sheep farmer. ''It never gets lonely. I have a television and the radio. And sometimes the men in the vil...

A group of men hanging out while shearing sheep in the autumn. Sheep farming has long been an integral part of the island's traditions, and still it represents an important social meeting place for m...

Aadne and Joannes (52) together in their childhood home. They are twin brothers and both unmarried. ''I prayed to God that I would find a wife'', says Joannes, ''Maybe he didn't hear me.''

Andrias Justesen (54) with his little white pet kitten outside his home, which he shares with his mother (82) and several cats. Andrias went to Denmark to study to become a teacher, because his mother...

A grandfather drives four boys in the trailer of his car as boys on an ATV pass them by.

A rowing team who just won a contest during the Joansoeka midsummer festival.

Sigvart (left) and Heini get ready to shear the sheep in Sund. Every spring they collect the sheep in the mountains to to shear and vaccinate them. They say: 'Mostly it's the same group that comes eve...

Bloody hands after the process of numbering the sheep in a herd which involves cutting their ears.

A man and his dog look for sheep in the hills above Sund outside Torshavn, the capital.

A village on the island of Streymoy.

Inga (left) and Siv walking along the streets of Sandavagur with a doll in a pram and Inga holding the shine bone from a slaughtered lamb.

Tor Egil Oervat Odd (65) beside an old tractor outside his home, in the village Sand on Sandoy. He has never been married. He likes to repair old tractors and cars.

Pallets and boxes stored outside the fish storage building.

A double rainbow over the village of Nordragota.

The interior of a building in the harbour used by fishermen to bait fishing hooks.

Oluf Durhuus (18) preparing an exterior hot tub.

Hjalmar, his shirt stained with blood during sheep slaughtering on a farm.

Sheep farmer Paetur uses a pair of binoculars from the stairs of his home to check on his sheep during lambing season.

Tummas and Niklas Roi talking together in a car park at the town's harbour.

Two young men help move a whale, slaughtered during a hunt on to the shore using a crane to lift the mammal.

Jogvan (22) with blood smears on his face, after a long evening of whaling.

A young boy looks out of a window while travelling on the ferry that takes passengers between the capital Torshavn and the southernmost island Suduroy.

Three boys celebrating after their team won a rowing contest during the midsummer festival Joansoeka.

A woman with a baby buggy watching children play around with gladiator balls during Joansoeka, the midsummer festival.

A fish farm in the water off Streymoy.

A man sitting beside a window in the ''fishermen's house'', where retired fishermen meet to drink coffee, talk and listen to the radio. From the building they have a direct view of the harbour and all...

An abondoned sheepfold near Sydrugota on a foggy day.

Nicodemus (69) looking for his brother Klaemint (72) who is expected home from a fishing trip. The brothers are single and live together.

Men work on the roof and a scaffold to repair the top of a house in Hvannasund.

Fridi sits on a slaughtered whale after a long night hunting the mammals. About a thousand peole where involved in the hunt in which 135 whales where caught.

Janus, a fisherman, sits in the bridge of a boat during the night while fishing with his son Eivind and cousin Andrias.

Litla Dimun, the smallest of the Faroe's 18 islands and uninhabited.