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You can find the exhibition addresses in the
program folder. Change in program may occur.
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Alexandra Demenkova, Arturas Valiauga and
Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge
Norges Kreative Fagskole Trondheim
Alison Jackson
Anton Corbijn
Astro
Røsslyngveien og ABC-bakken Kindergarteens
Bilder Nordic School of Photography
Chris Rainier
Dag Alveng
Dawid
Fotofagskolen i Trondheim
Photohistorical Association Kristiansund
Photojournalism (Oslo University College)
Gaza photographers
Garden photography (competition)
Jan Saudek
Kai Jensen
Kristiansund Camera club
Leif Preus
Marc Riboud
MK Atlanten VGS
Nils Aukan
Norwegian Association of Amateur Photography
Philip McCormack
Press Photographers Association Forbund
Pär Bäckstrand
Romano Cagnoni
Shebab Uddin
School competition 5th. and 8th. grade
SpareBank1Nordvest
Søren Lose
Tidens Krav - press photographers
Arnfinn Johnsen
Øystein Kvanneid
A. Caroline Kino, Konsul Knudtzons gate 4
B. Quality Grand Hotel, Bernstorffstredet 1
C. Tahitibrygga, Sundbåtkaia Innlandet
D. Dødeladen restaurant, Sundbåtkaia Innlandet
E. Thon Hotel, Fiskergata 12, Innlandet
Design: Kairos Works - www.kairosworks.no / Text: Astrid Ledang / Translation: Kevin Reeder / Print: Grøset.
Exhibitions
Johnny Cash © Anton Corbijn
General Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
34 exhibitions
Portfolio review
face to face
Workshops
lectures
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Welcome
welcome to kristiansund
Tickets and festival pass
Buy your tickets/pass at www.billettservice.no, Narvesen, 7-Eleven or at the post office (Norway).
You can also buy tickets/pass at the festival office (Caroline) during the festival.
Festival office: Caroline (Cinema and Conference center),
Konsul Knudtzonsgate 4, phone. 92 68 42 98.
all days e 3500 nok (Students: 2100 nok. More than 10: 1750 NOK)
3 days e 2800 nok (Students: 1680 nok. More than 10: 1400 NOK)
2 days e 1900 nok (Students: 1140 nok. More than 10: 950 NOK)
1 day e 1000 nok (students: 600 nok. more than 10: 500 NOK)
exhibition pass single ticket lecture face to face luft i luka pass
luft i luka single ticket e 200 nok
e 225–275 nok e 275 nok e 650 nok
e 275 nok
(Students: -40%)
(Passholders: 125 NOK)
Portfolio reviews
5 reviews e 1500 nok (students: 900 nok)
single review e 500 nok (students: 300 nok)
saturday 01.05 e 10.30–18.00 e caroline
Booking: [email protected] – or visit the festival office (Caroline).
Kristiansund Municipality welcomes participants,
visitors and the public to Kristiansund and the
2010 Nordic Light International Festival of
Photography from 27 April to 1 May.
We are proud to host this international
festival in Kristiansund, a city of hospitality with
much to offer. The area was selected by National
Geographic as one of the world’s most attractive tourist destinations
in 2009. Kristiansund is surrounded by natural beauty; a landscape of
astounding variety, with strongly contrasting hues and light conditions. As one of Norway’s most characteristic restored cities,
Kristiansund is also worth viewing without the help of your camera.
This year’s festival is the fifth in succession. It is a high-quality
event consisting of exhibitions, lectures, face-to-face interviews,
films, workshops, and much more. The guest list is impressive,
featuring some of the great names within photography.
I would like to praise the more than 150 volunteers without whom
the festival could not be staged.
The response to Nordic Light International Festival of Photography has been extremely positive from both professional and amateur
photographers and art lovers. This year will be no different.
I wish you welcome to an eventful week of unique experiences
and meetings. There is much to look forward to.
Lunch
lunch plate
baguette every day e 165 NOK (student: 120 NOK)
e 70 NOK (students only. Order up front at festival office)
e grand hotel
Per Kristian Øyen, Mayor of Kristiansund
Café
every day e 10.00–18.00 e caroline
End of festival party – and everyone is invited!
Meet the legends and mingle through the night! Join us for some food and good conversations.
Buss from Caroline at 20.45. Tickets and more information at the festival office (Caroline).
Price is to be announced.
Welcome to the fifth
Nordic Light Festival
of Photography!
The festival organisers, volunteers and the local
community are ready and waiting to welcome
festival-goers and participants! We hope the
festival will provide some meaningful, instructive,
interesting, challenging and enjoyable days.
The festival aims to place photography in a
multidisciplinary context, which is why we invite
speakers from other fields to promote discussion
and inspiration. This year we presents 34 exhibitions, 25 talks, plus
portfolio reviews, workshops, “face-to-face” interviews and free
breakfast films. The program ranges from workshops in skateboarding photography and wedding photography to meetings with photographic legends like Marc Riboud, Anton Corbijn and Chris Rainier.
You will experience conceptual photographic art, classic photography, political statements, philosophical reflection and fantastic
stories. The programme aims to reflect a diversity of ages and expression, with a common denominator: QUALITY. As artistic director,
I want to see experiences, professional development and inspiration
– not affirmation! Maybe it is where philosophy meets figurative
language, something I have little experience of, that I can learn most.
Nordic Light is a festival that wants to communicate an ATTITUDE
to our profession – and to life itself! We invite guests who are not only
leading artists and professionals but who also have a story to tell – a
message they want to communicate with enthusiasm and charisma.
This is therefore a festival for EVERYBODY – not just for photo
buffs. It’s a festival for people who want to develop themselves, for
those who want a few quality days of reflection in a time where
superficial ‘soft options’ often dominate. I can guarantee that our
invited artists will give the public some memorable experiences.
Kristiansund is authentic, down-to-earth and surrounded by a
landscape of brutal beauty. Its inhabitants are hospitable, something
demonstrated by the incredible efforts of our volunteers. We gratefully
acknowledge that the support we get from the town’s people and
political leadership is critical for the success of our bold venture. Our
deep gratitude to everyone – not least our generous sponsors.
The previous four festivals exceeded everyone’s expectations.
Besides great artists from Scandinavia, we have had the honour to be
visited by masters like William Klein, Joel Peter Witkin, Joyce
Tenneson, Franco Fontana, William Ropp, Stuart Franklin, Don Mc
Cullin, Michael Kenna, Jock Sturges, Shahidul Alam, Sarah Moon,
Giorgia Fiorio, Bruce Barnbaum, Bruce Gilden, Matt Mahurin, James
Nachtway, Martin Parr, Alex Webb and Arno Minkkinen.
saturday 01.05 e 21.00 e slatlem & co (Verkstedveien 4, Kristiansund)
Morten Krogvold, Artistic Director
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Workshops
Workshops
quick 7 useful 7 knowledge
quick 7 useful 7 knowledge
build skateboard ramps
skateboard
photography
Learn to build skateboarding
ramps with simple means.
This workshop will show
you some smart construction
techniques that are simple to do
but which promise lots of
skating fun. We are working
with Merch distribution and
Activist by Amnesty International, who start a country-wide
tour about building skateboarding ramps this weekend. The
tour is called Vox DIY. 2010. (Do
it yourself). The ramps that are
built during the workshop will
be donated to Kristiansund’s
skateboarders.
Saturday is ramp-building day,
with workshoppers being helped
by people from Merch distribution and Activist.
Sunday is for testing the
ramps. Members of both the
Merch Distribution and Activist
skateboarding teams – some of
the best skateboarders in
Norway – will take part. There
will also be happenings and
prize competitions.
In connection with the rampbuilding workshop we are
arranging a Skateboarding
photography workshop. To take
good photos of skateboarding
tricks, you have to know something about skateboarding.
Øystein Kvanneid and Stian
Evensen will be the workshop
tutors. Kvanneid is also exhibiting skateboarding photos
during the Nordic Light festival
2010. Øystein and Stian are both
experienced skateboarding
photographers who have had
their photos published in
various skateboarding media.
Workshop participants will
get a basic knowledge of
photographic techniques and
tips on how to take good skateboarding photos. Photos will be
taken on both Saturday and
Sunday, and continual feedback
and advice will be given by
Øystein and Stian.
The results of the workshop
will be published on one or
more of the main skateboarding
websites in Norway.
sat 24.04-sunday 25.04
e 09.00-18.00
e 500 NOK (sibling discount 250 NOK)
e slatlem & co
sat 24.04-sunday 25.04
e 09.00-18.00
e 950 NOK
e slatlem & co
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master digital printing
with bill atkinson
and mikkel aaland
A master printer is a rare person. Not only does it take a strong
aesthetic sensibility, but in this computer age, it requires advanced
technical skills. Many helpful tools are available: software such as
Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom; super high quality ink-jet
printers such as the Epson Stylus Pro line; and sophisticated color
calibration devices.But how do you put all these tools to good use and
get the results you expect from your digital files and printer?
Join legendary photographer and computer visionary, Bill
Atkinson for a day of advanced printing techniques. Bill, assisted by
photographer and colleague Mikkel Aaland, will guide you through
the steps required to make consistently stunning prints from your
digital files. Topics for this very special occasion include: color
management, printer and monitor profiling, and optimal image
processing and sharpening.
lightroom 3
with mikkel aaland
a shoot with beckstead!
Photoshop Lightroom is Adobe’s next-generation tool for digital
photographers. It was created from the ground up for serious photographers who’d rather spend their time shooting and not all day sitting in
front of a computer. Lightroom makes it easy to import, edit, organize,
process, and share digital photos in an integrated work environment.
Because Lightroom is non-destructive and doesn’t alter a single pixel
of the original image file – be it RAW, JPEF, or TIFF – it is lightening
fast. You can quickly change white balance, optimize exposure, create
a slideshow or a web gallery, or prepare one – or a hundred – images
for print.
This one-day workshop will introduce you to all of Lightroom’s
major features – with special emphasis on Lightroom’s processing
and printing capabilities.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone who wants to take their printing skills to the next level.
Who Should Attend?:
Anyone serious about their photography and who wants to get the
most out of their digital camera. A basic working knowledge of
Photoshop or Lightroom is helpful but not essential.
A Special Occasion
This is a rare opportunity to learn from one of the world’s master
printers. Class size is limited so sign up early.
Bill Atkinson is a programming genius turned photographer and a
legendary figure in Silicon Valley where he is credited with creating
HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Apple Macintosh
operating system. HyperCard was the first popular hypertext system
and has been called the forerunner to the web browser. He turned full
time to nature photography in 1996. Along with his wife Sioux,
Atkinson runs a gallery, sells his work on-line at www.natureimages.
com and provides free-of-charge printing profiles, which he generously shares with all photographers. Atkinson’s most recent book is
titled, “Within the Stone” and his most recent product is PhotoCard.
Attendees Will Learn:
Although much can be discovered by simply experimenting on your
own, there is a lot to the application that doesn’t immediately meet
the eye. In this introduction to the application, you’ll get more than a
general overview of this ground-breaking application, but specific tips
and tricks that will make your workflow go smoother and faster.
Bring a laptop (PC or Mac) loaded with Photoshop Lightroom.
A trial version of Lightroom is available for free at www.adobe.com.
RAW files will be provided but it’s helpful if you bring RAW files of
your own. (We will work with the latest version of Lightroom, as well
as the public beta Lightroom 3.
TUesday 27. 04 e 09.30-18.00
e 2900 NOK (The first two students who sign up will get 50% discount!)
e where: to be announced
monday 26. 04 e 09.30-18.00
e 1900 NOK (The first two students who sign up will get 50% discount!)
David Beckstead is a lot of fun: he speaks from the heart, is honest,
down to earth, knowledgeable and inspiring.
Composition sets you apart!
Powerful frames create powerful opportunity. Great imagery
commands a higher price. But…if you are looking for marketing,
business or sales, this workshop is not for you. This workshop has
one purpose only: to dramatically increase your ability to ‘see’ potent
frames in a visually chaotic world: to create art out of pandemonium.
Photographers are going to have to work harder in 2010 to
succeed. I would like to help you demystify the art of being different,
setting yourself apart and creating a demand.
Through the balance of creativity in art and business we will conceptualize strategies to ‘win’ in a tough economy.
We start with creating a better image and stronger style which
equates to a more powerful brand. We end with a constructive attitude that will open new doors and create opportunities: living where
you want, shooting in a style that you love and attracting brides who
respect that kind of freedom.
• It is about passionately going into a shoot to create ‘art’ for yourself
and then finding likeminded clients that love what you do.
• This is a One Lens, One Camera workshop, and for those that want
to increase their compositional power.
• If you think you ‘know’ composition, please don’t come. This
workshop is for those who have open minds and hearts and want to
learn compelling and dramatic ways to improve their art.
monday 26.04–tuesday 27.04 e 09.00-18.00
e 4900 kr (The first two students who sign up will get 50% discount!)
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chains of love, 2000. by courtesy of in focus gallery, cologne
Jan Saudek is one of the world’s most published photographers
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saudek
exhibition
Photo: Darija Innk
It is a great honor for Nordic Light International
Festival of Photography to present the first Jan
Saudek exhibition in Norway. Saudek has put
Eastern Europe on the photographic map. His
hand-colored photographs are known far beyond
his own country, a territory he rarely leaves.
A photographic artist, Saudek was born in
1935 into a Jewish family. He studied at Prague
School of Industrial Photography and has artistic roots that go back to
the period of experimental photography in the Czech Republic. Most
of his relatives died during the war and art historians claim that these
experiences can be seen reflected in his work.
Viewers can find stories concerning political and erotic freedom
but also an abuse of power and political corruption. During his
professional carrier he has gained a lot of attention for his erotic and
political subject matters. Saudek had his first international exhibition
at the University of Indiana in 1969. He also exhibited his images at
Arles Festival in 1977, but it was not until 1984 that he was recognized
as a professional artist.
As his work even then often turned to themes such as personal
erotic freedom and used implicitly political symbols of corruption and
innocence, Saudek was under constant supervision by the secret
police, forcing him in periods to work in a clandestine manner to
avoid their attention. In 1987 all his images were confiscated by the
police, but were later returned.
Saudek’s photographic work, mainly hand-tinted black and white
images, shows dreamlike experiences and grotesque allegories of
human foibles and fantasies. Blending eroticism and sentiment, his
theatrical scenarios, which include himself, his family and friends,
are considered by some as shocking or kitschy, but by others as
addressing core themes of human life – ageing, sexuality and gender
relations.
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Born in Praque, 1935
Selected: 1969: University of Indiana Bloomington. 1976: Art Institute of Chicago. 1977: R.I.P. Arles. 1979: Pratt Manhattan Graphic
Center, New York, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles. 1980: FNAC - Montparnasse, Paris. 1984: Watari, Tokyo. 1986: Fotoforum Frankfurt. 1987: Musée dárt
moderne de la ville de Paris. 1991: Centre Pompidou, Paris, Steltmann, Amsterdam. 1995: G4 Cheb. 1996: in focus Galerie am Dom, Köln. 1999: The Museum of
Photography, Tel Hai. 2002: Galerie K. Mennour, Paris. 2005: Prag, Best of Jan Saudek, Katalog. 2006: Moscow - Photobiennale. 2006: International Month of Photography: The exhibition “The World of Jan Saudek” in “Manezh” Central exhibition hall - in focus Galerie, Köln (with Sarah Saudkova). Important monographs:
1983: “The world of Jan Saudek”, The master collection book, Genf. 1986: “35 Jahre Fotografie - Jan Saudek”, Frankfurt. 1987: “Jan Saudek, 200 photographs”, Musée de
art moderne, de la ville de Paris, Paris. 1991: “Jan Saudek, Life, Love and death and othe such trifles”, Amsterdam. 1995: “Jan Saudek, Jubilations & Obsessions”,
Amsterdam. 1997: “Jan Saudek, Photographs 1987–1997”, Taschen Verlag, Köln. 1998: “Jan Saudek”, Taschen Verlag, Köln. 2002: “Jan Saudek, Realities”, Arena
Editions, New Mexiko, Santa Fe. 2006: “The Best of Jan Saudek”, Prag, “Saudek”, Taschen Verlag, Köln. www.saudek.com
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dog legs ny 1974
fille a la fleur, washington, 1967, by courtesy of in focus gallery, cologne
“Some people think I’m dead because I’ve been around for so long”
one of the world’s foremost photo-journalists of the past fifty years
elliott
erwitt
LECTURE
portfolio
exhibition
Elliot Erwitt is one of the most respected photographers of a generation featuring names like
Robert Frank, Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander.
Elliot Erwitt was born in France to Russian
parents, but lived his first 10 years in Italy, before
his family fled from Mussolini’s regime to the
USA. While Erwitt completed High School, he
worked at a commercial photo lab where he
copied signed pictures of celebrities. On his travels he met Edward
Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, key figures of a photographic
generation prior to Erwitt’s. In their own ways, all three became
fascinated by Erwitt’s mode of expression and became his photographic mentors and advisors. In 1953 he was invited by Robert Capa
to become a member of Magum Photos, the most important and reputed photo agency of the age. Today he is still an active and influential
member and contributes to strengthening the agency’s portfolio.
Despite his age, Erwitt continues to produce pictures and is currently working on several book projects. And although he is often described as a street photographer, Erwitt does not like to define himself.
“I wouldn’t call myself anything. I don’t wake up in the morning and
think I’m going to be funny or anything like that.”
The nearest he comes is the definition of craftsman, someone
who works in the “traditional” manner: a Leica, a film and an
aspiration to take good pictures that entertain and surprise people.
You could say that his pictures show a somewhat rosier version of
reality than many of his Magnum colleagues, but his pictures often
have an underlying message. He wants to show us a “just-aroundthe-corner” slice of reality in the form of snapshots. Despite in
several interviews having expressed a resistance to pushing a political agenda, Erwitt has taken a number of pictures that have subsequently come to symbolise important political issues or moments.
For example his iconic picture of a dark-skinned man drinking from a
shabby drinking fountain for ‘colored people’, or the picture of a
smoking Kennedy full of hope for the future – and three years later a
devastated Jacqueline Kennedy beside her late husband’s stars-andstripes-covered coffin.
Erwitt makes very little of the fact that he has photographed
some of the main public figures of our times, or one of its sex symbols, Marilyn Monroe. He treats a cleaner and a celebrity in much the
same way, rather focusing on getting a picture. “It is all there.” Dogs
are one of his favourite subjects and he has featured them in a series
of pictorial books.
“Why not? Dogs are expressive; they are everywhere; they are
sympathetic. And they don’t ask for prints.”
marc
riboud
LECTURE
exhibition
The French photographer Marc Riboud (86) is one
of the world’s foremost photo-journalists of the
past fifty years. He is probably best known for his
many photo-reports from China. On the recommendation of Robert Capa and Henri CartierBresson, Riboud became an official member of
Magnum Agency in 1955.
During his Magnum years Riboud covered
both wars and everyday life, but it is his early depictions of life in
Paris and from closed societies like Cambodia, Vietnam and China,
that really stand out. Riboud is the last surviving representative of the
great French humanistic photographers who portrayed everyday
France during the country’s reconstruction after the Second World
War. Riboud is a cultural celebrity in France, and many of his photos
have become icons of photographic history.
Before Riboud chose photography as his trade, he completed
engineering studies. At an early point in his career he took a week off
from work for a fateful seven-day picture-taking excursion that
ignited his wanderlust. He never returned to his factory job.
From 1955-1960 he was in the Near East, the Far East, India,
Nepal, China, the Soviet Union, and undertook a journey from Alaska
to Mexico. He spent 1960-1970 documenting people and events in
Africa, Algeria, China, North and South Vietnam, and Cambodia.
Riboud´s photos are more than documentary, in that they both show
and transcend reality. He was one of the few photographers who
travelled through Africa during its transition to independence in the
early 1960s, visiting countries like Algeria, Nigeria, the Congo and
Ghana, and was one of the first Western photographers to see China
during the Cultural Revolution. In contrast, he has also captured the
beauty of everyday life around the globe and the lyricism of children
playing in Paris.
Marc Riboud is a photographer whose works has appeared in
museums and galleries around the world. His more than a dozen
books have been received as classics of artistic photo-journalism.
Marc Riboud describes himself as being sensitive to the beauty
of the world, describing photographing a street as like listening to
music. After 50 years as a photographer he has not changed his way
of seeing and if someone asks him what as his best shot, he will
answer that hopefully he will make it tomorrow. To photograph is to
enjoy the essence of life in a 1/125 of a second.
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Born in 1923 in France
Education: 1949: Start his professional career as a photographer in Italy and France. 1951: US Army. 1953: Joined Magnum Photos AS.
1968: Became President of Magnum Photos AS for three terms. Still in Magnum as an active photographer. Several books, journalistic essays, illustrations and
advertisements has been featured in publications around the world for more than 40 years. Film and documentary: 1971: Beauty knows no pain. 1973: Red, white
and blue grass. 1977: The glass makers of Herat. 1980s: Produced 17 comedy and satire television program for Home Box. 1990- present: over 20 photography books.
Presented in: MoMA New York, Chicago Art Institute, Smithsonian Institution Washington D.C., MoMA Paris, Kunsthaus Zurich, Rein Sofia Museum Madrid,
Barbican London, Royal Photographic Society Bath, Museum of Art of New South Wales Sydney, Spazio Oberdan Milan, various Asian venues, Palazzo Braschi Museo
de Roma, and many others. Private galleries scattered throughout the world display, promote and sell Erwitts fine art photographs. Recent exhibition places
for solo Exhibition: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland. www.elliotterwitt.com
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Born in 1923, Lyons, France
1937: First photography. 1945–48: Study of engineering. 1952: In the photo-agency Magnum. Since 1955: journeys through Africa,
Asia and the East Bloc. 1975–76: Vice-president of Magnum. 1979: left Magnum. Group Exhibitions: Numerous worldwide. Solo Exhibitions (selected):
2009: “Marc Riboud” in focus Galerie, Köln. 2005: “Marc Riboud”, Galerie Arcturus, Paris. “Gazes”, The Gallery at Hermes, New York. The Barbican Gallery, London.
1996: “China”, Centre National de Photographie, Paris. 1988: “Marc Riboud”, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris. 1985: “Retrospective”, Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville,
Paris. 1984: “China”, Galerie ACPA, Bordeaux. 1975: “Nord Vietnam”, Rote Fabrik, Zurich. “Marc Riboud”, International Centre of Photography, New York. 1974: “Marc
Riboud”, The Photographers Gallery, London. 1966: “China”, Asia House, New York. 1963: “Marc Riboud”, The Art Institute, Chicago. www.marcriboud.com
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Dave Gahan, Hamburg 1993 © Anton Corbijn
Open gate
“The main strength of my pictures, I guess, is the mood and feeling I get out of the people I meet”
“being only partly engaged is a waste of time and energy”
LECTURE
exhibition
Practicing photography to me meant having a life;
I could break away from my everyday life, be social and also develop myself as a person. Looking
at photography expands the fantasy, establishes a
history and pleases the aesthetic senses.
Through my career I’ve gone through different
photographic stages. First, in the 80s I did b/w
documentary photography. Then I started to do
portraits of musicians and artists such as directors and painters. After
that I went over to fake paparazzi shoots from fake film stills. Those
images had a blue look and were a reaction to the way celebrities are
depicted in the media. I have always liked fake film stills and naturally
I have seen through all the images made by Cindy Sherman (the
photographer who has challenged photography as an authentic
means of communication). This was in the 90s when I was pretending
to tell the truth, while actually lying. At last I did self-portraits, turning
myself into the subjects I have photographed during my career.
Generally I’m interested in people that do art because I like to
spend time with people that create. It inspires me. People sometimes
call me “the U2 photographer”, thinking that I’m a band photographer. If people go to my exhibitions, they’ll see that I shoot people, not
bands. I also design albums and was in charge of the stage design
during the Depeche Mode tour. For me music was the start of my
career, it made me fall in love with photography, but it never made
me a music photographer. My enthusiasm for photography changes
and these days I do mostly films. I like the complexity of making
movies: it’s far ahead thinking, huge machines, a lot of money, having
to plan. You can make a bad movie, but it has still taken a year. If you
make a good or bad shoot, it’s one day. Photography is so simple in
comparison. I like that. At the moment I’m working on a movie called
“The American” with George Clooney. It will come out in September.
“I’m a very basic photographer. The main strength of my pictures,
I guess, is the mood and feeling I get out of the people I meet.
Technically I don’t think I’m very advanced.”
Corbijn is one of the most known contemporary portrait photographers. He concentrates on portraits of celebrities from almost all
artistic genres, he shoots video clips, video projections, and he also
designs album covers. Besides Depeche Mode, his work includes
portraits of Bruce Springsteen, Kate Moss, Steven Spielberg, Wim
Wenders, Gerard Depardieu, Quentin Tarantino, William S. Burroughs,
Dennis Hopper, Martin Scorsese, U2, David Bowie, Michael Stipe and
hundreds of others.
Anton Corbijn took his first photographs in 1972 during a live
concert. In 1979 he moved to London to be closer to the music he
loved most. He immediately got in contact with the most popular
bands and artists of the post Punkperiod: Joy Division, Magazine and
PIL Ltd. From 1985 Corbijn decided to only focus on personalities
from show business. He has photographed for a number of magazines and reviews.
Anton Corbijn’s secret weapon: A Hasselblad and two lenses.
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The Norwegian Photographer Dag Alveng was
born in 1953 in Oslo and is considered to be one
of the most important art photographers in
Norway today. He was one of the main contributors to the establishment of Fotogalleriet in Oslo
in 1977, the only Norwegian institution devoted to
camera-based art. Two years later he had his first
solo exhibition “Vegger” at the same gallery.
Today Alveng’s art is featured in collections at The Metropolitan
Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Several
important art collectors have bought his work and he is also author of
a number of art books, including “Asylum” and “Summer Light”.
From 1986 to 1998 Dag Alveng lived in New York, a 12-year-period
that had a great influence on his career as a photographer. Even
though he had promised himself not to, Alveng started to photograph
the streets of New York and made two series of photography “I love
this time of year” and “This is MOST important”. He was greatly
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inspired by the tradition of street photography, a style that can be
described as frozen scenes of a moving world. However, the
character of Alveng’s photography is not comparable. The style, that
dominated his work in New York was discovered when he double
exposed an image by accident. “I Love This Time of the Year” is a
collection of pictures that can be described as formations that repeats themselves rhythmically. Buildings, people and texts create a
pattern scattered by an element in the centre of the image. The idea
was to translate the energy of New York, but also to show how New
York can be presented through photography.
The technical quality of Alveng’s photography, with its highly detailed and fine range of grey tones, is incomparable. Alveng considers
the work process as continuous, being an artist as about being original and not repeating what already exists, and he emphasizes the
importance of working for what he believes in, – being only partly
engaged is a waste of time and energy.
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Exhibitions: More than 90 exhibitions worldwide such as: 1996: Deichtorhallen, The Cool and the Crazy Images of Punk, Govinda
Gallery, Washington. 1997: Fotoos, Yokohama. 1998: 50 Years STERN, Fotokino, Kuln. 1999: Galerie Almine Rech, Paris. 2000: Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester.
2001: Museum Dresden, Dresden. 2002: Anton Corbijn, Futurshow, Bologna. 2003: ARCO, Lipanje Puntin artecontemporanea, Madrid. 2004: Anton Corbijn, Palazzo
Fortuny, Venezia. 2005: Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna. In addition he has made music videos and cd covers for numerous famous musicians,
such as Depeche Mode, U2, Johnny Cash, Bryan Adams, Nirvana, Metallica, Lene Marlin and Bruce Springsteen. www.corbijn.co.uk
Born in 1953, Oslo, Norway
Selected Solo Shows: 2009: Benedito Calixto Museum, Santos. 2008: Deborah Bell Photographs, New York. 2001: The Museum
of Contemporary Art, Oslo. 2001: Sprengel Museum Hannover. 2000: The Gallery of the Center of Modern Art, Warsaw. 1994: Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden.
1988: The Museum for Photography, Odense. 1987: Preus Photomuseum, Horten. 1986: Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. 1979: The Photogallery, Oslo. Performances:
2001: The Photographer Shoots Himself, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo. 1983: DPT3 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo. Selected Group Shows: 2009: “Agua Grande:
os mapas alterados”, Curitiba. 2008: “First Doubt - Optical Confusion in Modern Photography”, Yale University Art Gallery. 2003: “Dialog”, Museum of Modern Art,Rio de
Janeiro. 1986: «Scandinavian Photography», Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. 1979: «1001 Bild», The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm. Monographs and Books
(selected): “One Shot Each - Humor Belyst”, Museet for Fotokunst Brandts, Odense, 2007, “This is MOST important - The New York Multiple Exposure Series”, Forlaget
Oktober, 2003, “Asylum”, Published by Koks Forlag, 1987. Selected Public Collections: The Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, USA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, Sprengelmuseum, Hannover, Germany, Biblioteheque Nationale, Paris, France, Stedeljik
Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway. www.alveng.com
Born in 1955, Netherlands
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from the book “a year on a river in norway”
“Photography begins not in the camera but in the mind and the eye”
Aaland is one of few original alpha- and beta-testers for the photo management programme ‘Adobe Lightroom’
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Photography begins not in the camera but in the
mind and the eye. The real work is one of noticing
and appreciating, seeing things clearly and
differently, and sharing that vision with others.
I have developed my vision and my photographic
craft in order to bring the beauty of nature to light in
a fresh way that can inspire and nourish people.
Artist’s Statement
At the age of ten, Atkinson was given a subscription to “Arizona
Highways” magazine. He cut out several nature photographs, displayed them on his bedroom wall and found that he was nourished
and inspired by them. Thus began Atkinson’s lifelong journey – exploring and photographing nature. Atkinson has spent more than forty
years refining his vision as a photographer – hiking through forests
and deserts; lugging camera gear through rain, mud and snow;
seeking out the special light that reveals hidden beauty. Through
intimate landscapes and close-up details, Atkinson’s photographs
highlight and celebrate the wonders of nature.
By developing his skills as a photographer and a fine art printmaker, Atkinson has been able to create expressive and archival
photographs that faithfully share his experiences. As a pioneer of
digital printing technologies, he teaches workshops in fine-art
printmaking and has shared his expertise with over three hundred
photographers.
As a member of the original Macintosh team at the Apple
Computer, Atkinson designed much of the initial Macintosh user
interface and wrote the original QuickDraw, MacPaint and HyperCard
software. After years of designing software tools to empower other
creative people, Atkinson is now empowered in his own art by the
accuracy and creative control made possible by the digital printing
process.
In recent years, Atkinson has explored the miniature landscapes
hidden within stones. By photographing cut and polished rocks he has
created images that look more like abstract paintings than an extensive collection of evocative photographs. These photographs are
featured in Atkinson’s photography book, “Within the Stone”.
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Mikkel Aaland is an award wining photographer,
popular workshop leader and author of fifteen
books on digital photography and post-production. He has been at the forefront of digital photo
technology since its beginnings.
Aaland has been a pioneer of digital photography ever since his interest was aroused when
world famous American photographer Ansel
Adams told of his fascination for digital photos from space during an
interview in 1980. Aaland began writing about digital photography for
the Swedish periodical Photo and for American Photographer, later
being engaged as a consultant for TV programmes and guest
columnist for www.newsweek.com.
Aaland’s documentary photography has been exhibited in major
galleries across the world, including Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris
and the former Lenin Museum in Prague. In 1981 he received the
National Art Directors award for his work. He has contributed both
text and photos to Wired, Outside, Digital Kreativitet, American Photo,
The Washington Post and Newsweek, in addition to several European
publications.
Aaland is one of few original alpha- and beta-testers for the photo
management programme ‘Adobe Lightroom’ and has functioned as a
voluntary advisor for the project. He is also organiser of “Adobe Lightroom Adventure”, which was held in Island in 2006 and Tasmania in
2008. Mikkel Aaland is currently working on a solo project in his home
at Telemark, southeastern Norway.
A Year on a River in Norway
Join Mikkel Aaland as he describes his latest personal work, a book
of photos and text titled, “A Year on a River in Norway”.
Aaland, a Norwegian American, moved his wife and children from
their home in San Francisco to the family home in Telemark for a year
to discover his roots and uncover meaning about the tragic death of
his father.
Up Close with Bill Atkinson
Join Bill Atkinson as he talks about his life at Apple computer, his
life-long love of photography, his ground breaking work in the field of
digital printing, and shows off his latest hit-product PhotoCard.
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Born in 1951, USA
Computer engineer and photographer. Education: University of California, San Diego, where Apple Macintosh developer Jef Raskin was one
of his professors. Atkinson continued his studies as a graduate student at the University of Washington. 1978–1990: Joined Apple Computer. He received his undergraduate degree from the Atkinson was part of the Apple Macintosh development team and was the creator of the ground-breaking MacPaint application, among
others. Designed and implemented QuickDraw, QuickDraw’s and implemented HyperCard, the first popular hypermedia system. 1990: General Magic’s founding,
with Bill Atkinson as one of the three co-founders. 1996: He was involved full-time in fine-art digital nature photography. 2007: Working as an outside developer with
Numenta, a startup working on computer intelligence. www.billatkinson.com
Born in 1952, San Francisco, USA
Books (selected): 2008: Photoshop CS3 RAW (O´Reilly), 2007: Shooting Digital (2nd edition), 2006: Photoshop Elements
4 Solutions (4th edition Sybex/Wiley), 1999: Photoshop for the Web (2nd edition O’Reilly), 1996: Still Images in Multimedia (Hayden), 1992: Digital Photography (Random
House). www.cyberbohemia.com
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Queen on loo
Biafra 1968
“Nobody can imagine the Queen on the toilet”
“If you can’t cry, you can’t laugh”
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Alison Jackson is the photographer who has
shown us what celebrities do when they are
alone. Blair and Bush plan wars, Amy Winehouse
takes a drinking holiday and Prince William
teaches Queen Elizabeth to dance. Or do they?
Alison Jackson has made her creative career by
creating look-alike pictures of public figures in
compromising situations. She claims that most
people want something more, and she therefore uses photography
and film to erase the boundaries between fantasy and reality. Her aim
is to put the spotlight on how the camera seduces us into believing
that all we see is real.
Alison Jackson graduated with an MA in Fine Art Photography
from the London Royal College of Art in1999. Her fascination for our
voyeuristic culture began with her graduation series entitled Mental
Images, in which she depicted Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed with
a mixed-race love child. When Princess Diana suddenly died in a car
crash, the result was worldwide grieving, despite the fact that few
people really knew much about her. Diana became a backdrop for the
public fantasy. Who was she with? Was she pregnant? Why did she die?
Andy Warhol once said that celebrities are the most successful
products in a world full of products. Diana was a good example of how
a celebrity can be a product that is only known through its depiction
on TV, its image. Does this suggest that Alison Jackson’s photographs
are more exciting than the people they depict? Inspired by Warhol,
Jackson questions a culture that lets screens and pictures get in the
way of ”the real thing”. Photography seduces us into believing that all
we see is real, whilst actually only showing us a slice of reality.
In addition to her photo series, Jackson has produced the BBC
series “Two Double takes” about the behaviour of popular political,
comedy and sports personalities. She also recently made look-alike
pictures of Bush and Blair in a “behind-the-scenes” series called
Blaired Vision. Jackson is also currently developing a program for
American TV, on the satirical news site AJNews.co.uk, as well as
finishing a book for Taschen.
“She fearlessly tugs away at the curtain that separates what we
assume we know and what we really know about our icons and
movers-and-shakers, and the result is stunning”.
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Romano Cagnoni is one of the world’s great
photographers in the reportage tradition. He has
worked in Biafra, Cambodia, Northern Ireland,
Afghanistan, Chechnya, Yugoslavia and Kosovo
and many other places. He once said in an
interview that photographing world events allowed him to be present in situations where people
were obliged to reveal themselves. He could then,
in terms of content, avoid any rhetorically posed photography.
Photographing particularly in black and white has been Cagnoni’s
way of presenting people’s stories with all their individuality and
contradictions. To retain full control of his work, he has created and
researched his own assignments and then sold them to the top
international magazines, such as Life, The Sunday Times Magazine,
New York Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, Stern, etc. Sunday
times former editor, Harold Evans, mentions in his book “Pictures on
a Page”, Cagnoni as being one of the most famous photographers in
the world with Henry Cartier-Bresson, Bill Brandt, Don McCullin and
Eugene Smith.
In 1965 he was the first photographer admitted into North
Vietnam together with the journalist James Cameron. Photography
was under heavy censorship. Cagnoni managed to photograph Ho Chi
Minh at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh characterized
Cagnoni as an optimist, and “optimists make good revolutionaries”.
The photograph was used as a cover of Life Magazine.
Cagnoni was the first photographer to set up a studio in a war
zone. The idea came from his fascination with the Chechen warriors
who resisted the powerful Russian army and air force. Cagnoni and
his wife Patricia went with flashlights, tripods and reflectors to set up
a studio in Grozny during the fighting in 1995. Cagnoni captured
images of old buildings destroyed by the military with a large-format
camera in order to present technically perfect architectural photographs of war-damaged sited.
In 2004 he had a show called “Chiaroscuro” at Arengario Palace
in Milan. The word Chiaroscuro is related to fine art, but also means
in the Italian language an alternation of changing fortunes from
painful to good humor. According to Cagnoni the title portrays the
essence of his work, because he has often looked at life with an
amused eye. “If you can’t cry, you can’t laugh”.
During his career he has received a great variation of prizes,
among them the USA Overseas Press Award and the Werner Bishof
Silver Flute. He has had more than 40 solo museum exhibitions and
participated to many museum group exhibitions.
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Born in 1960, Southsea, England
TV Productions: BBC2 since 2003 and Channel 4 since 2005. Several productions as: 2003: Doubletake, BBC2. Created,
directed, wrote and produced 6 part series based on Mental Images. 2006: Channel 4: Tony Blair, Rock Star. 2004/5: Saturday Night Live, NBC. 2001-2003: Schweppes
UK: advertising campaign. Created concept, devised ideas and photographed. Solo exhibitions: (selection): 2008: Hamiltons Gallery, London (www.hamiltonsgallery.com). 2007: M+B, Los Angeles (www.mbfala.com). 2004: Julie Saul New York, 2004: Photo London. 2003: The Richard Salmon Gallery, London ‘Mental Images on
War’, 2002: The Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi, Brussels, 2001: Jerwood Space, London ‘Mental Images’, 2000: The Richard Salmon Gallery, London. group
exhibitions: 2008: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial. 2007: Paris Photo. 2006: Mak Museum, Vienna. 2005: Kunsthalle, Vienna: Superstars. 2004: Photo London.
2003: Musee de l’eysee, Lusanne. 2003: ICP International Center of Photography, New York. 2002: Paris Photo, Louvre. 2000: Art 2000 London. 1999: The Blue
Gallery. Temple of Diana Show curated by Neal Brown. www.alisonjackson.com / http://www.ted.com/talks/alison_jackson_looks_at_celebrity.html
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Born in 1935, Tuscany, Italy
1958: Moved to London. Work with Simon Guttermann (founder of modern photojournalism with Robert Capa, Felix Mann, Kurt Hutton,
Cartier-Bresson etc.). Documented world events published in international magazines: Vietnam, Cambodia, Nigerian Civil War, Israel, Sout-America, Northern
Ireland, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Kosovo etc. AWARDS: Won the USA Overseas Press Award, the German bronze medal Art DirectorsĆlub and many
Italian prizes. Cagnoni held exhibitions worldwide. Sunday Times former editor, Harold Evans, in his book “Pictures on a Page” mentions Cagnoni as being one of the
most famous photographers in the world with Henry Cartier-Brisson, Bill Brant, Don McCullin and Eugene Smith. See also references in “Contemporary Photographers” edit by St. James, Detroit, 1995. www.romanocagnoni.com
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Three tattoo artists
Documenting threatened wilderness areas and indigenous cultures has become his mission in life
chris
rainier
David mixes his passion for art and travel to run a destination wedding photography business
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Chris Rainier is one of the world’s leading
documentary photographers. Documenting
threatened wilderness areas and indigenous
cultures has become his mission in life.
Chris Rainier’s photography features in
magazines and newspapers like Time, National
Geographic and The New York Times and can be
seen in numerous collections worldwide. His
work has taken him around the globe, including major expeditions to
Africa, Antarctica and New Guinea.
He specializes in documenting indigenous cultures, and has a
role in empowering indigenous peoples, helping them to use
photography and technology to enhance their culture and lives.
Rainier has portrayed conflicts, famine and warfare in countries
like Somalia, Sudan, Bosnia, Ethiopia, Cambodia and Iraq – and
covered the Tsunami in Indonesia for the New York Times and Time
Magazine. Rainier is documenting the traditional tattoo practices of
indigenous people around the world. He has published “Keepers of
The Spirit” (1994), “Where Mask Still Dance, New Guinea” (1996) and
“Ancient Marks” (2004).
Chris Rainier is a National Geographic Society (NGS) Fellow and a
co-director at the NGS TV and photography unit. He is responsible for
the international cultural website Cultureontheedge.com.
The American Photo Magazine has acclaimed Rainier as one of
the world’s 100 most influential photographers.
Rainier’s pictures are characterized by both startling subjects and
thorough photographic craft – primarily in black-and-white. From
1980 to 1985 he was assistant to American photographer Ansel
Adams, known for his eminent landscapes and textbooks on photographic techniques. Rainier has certainly learned much from Adams,
but has clearly created a quite different style: his work places people
decidedly at its centre.
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David is truly a mountain man at heart! He has
traveled to over 68 countries and almost every
state in the US. He has hiked thousands of miles
of backcountry, including above the base camp of
Mt. Everest. He was one of the first registered
trackers for Arizona Search and Rescue, worked
for the US Forest Service for 12 summers as a
Hotshot firefighter fighting fires around the US
and Canada, all the while carrying a Nikon SLR with a 50 mm 1.8 lens.
David is a fine art watercolor painter and lover of all things artistic.
David lives out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere, NE Washington State.
David mixes his passion for art and travel to run a 14 year destination
wedding photography business. Kassandra, his wife (of 18 fabulous
years!) and business partner, shares his passions. Together they have
successfully mixed their lifestyle with their business. They have a
three year old amazing girl named Asia! They have photographed
weddings in Italy, Scotland, Ireland, UK, Bahamas, Caribbean, Mexico,
Vietnam, Slovenia and many other destination style shoots. David has a reputation for being honest and helpful and taking on
life with passion and a smile!
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Born in 1958, Canada
Selected exhibitions: Xandau Gallery, San Francisco, Fahey/Klein Gallery Los Angeles, Ralls Collection Washington DC, Contemporaria
Gallery, Washington DC, Drive Inn Gallery, New York, Interieurs Gallery, New York , William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, San Diego Old Town Gallery, California,
Weston Gallery, Carmel California, Nature Company, Berkeley CA, Photographers Gallery Denver CO, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, CO, Baltimore Gallery MD, David
Floria Gallery, Aspen CO, Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara.
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Born in 1964, USA
2 David’s web links: www.davidbeckstead.net. workshops: David is running workshops all over the US and the world.
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Amrao Manush
Dawid experiences pleasure in discovering the extraordinary in the humdrum
Shehab enjoys most to work on projects that involve emotions and values
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Björn Dawidson is a Swedish artist. He studied
photography at Christer Strömholm’s well known
school of photography in Stockholm and Graphic
Design at Beckham’s School of Art. During the
70’s and 80’s Dawid was one of the mot important
figures in the world of Swedish photography.
It is almost impossible to place Dawid and
his art in a category as he has worked with a wide
range of materials from manipulated paper to pen on paper. By exploring different techniques he has developed an artistic conceptual
style that demonstrates his excellent technical skills. Dawid has
tested the realism and limits of photography and on many occasions
transcended the borders between painting and photography. His
pieces are often abstract and strongly connected to photography as a
means of art and representation.
On several occasions Dawid’s work has been characterized as
that of an artist with a certain resistance towards direct communication between the audience and himself. Some may also say that it
indicates an opposition to photography’s seductive nature.
When Dawid published his book “ROST” in 1983, it established his
artistic signature. Dawid’s art is about the obvious: what we have
forgotten to notice in our everyday lives. By highlighting these elements Dawid forces his audience to look afresh, to discover the
beauty in what may appear as ordinary.
He wants his audience to respond to his way of seeing and therefore demands dedication. The art curator Michael Mack wrote that
Dawid experiences “pleasure in discovering the extraordinary in the
humdrum”.
During his career Dawid has received important prizes and grants
for his photographic contributions. He has had exhibitions in some of
the world’s most prestigious museums and galleries and several
important art collectors have bought his work.
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His main photographic interest is documentary
photography that focuses on socio-political
issues. After working as a photo journalist for
more than eight years, Uddin became a member
of Drik in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Drik is both a
meeting place and network for creative individuals and a media centre that aims to help balance
the dominance of western media. In a society with
prominent class distinctions, Drik aims to offer work experience to
trainees from all social classes through its trainee program.
Working with Drik satisfies Uddin’s professional wishes and
needs. He has also worked as assistant professor at the College of
Journalism and Mass Communication in Kathmandu. He is a
graduate of photo journalism from Patshala, The South Asian Media
Academy and Institute of Photography. Shehab enjoys most to work
on projects that involve emotions and values. His work has been
exhibited in numerous countries around the world, in addition to
being featured in online galleries. His pictures appear in national and
international publications, such as Time Journal of Photography,
Politiken, USA Today, CBS news, Time Online, The Guardian, Times
Daily, New Internationalist, Der Spiegel and Nepali Times. He has
won a number of awards from All Roads (Honourable Mention) National Geographic, WHO, Asahi Shimbun & IIPC, FIAP and HPA, and his
work features in collections like Kiyosato Museum of Photographic
Arts (Japan), Dhaka Nagar Jadughar (Dhaka City Museum) and the
Liberation War Museum (Bangladesh).
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Born in 1949, Örebro, Sweden
Collections (selected): Absolut Art Collection, Bank of Luxembourg. Bonnier Collection, Stockholm, Camera Obscura Collection,
Stockholm, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Dorint Collection, Brussells, Helsingborgs Museum, Helsingborg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Museet for
samtidskunst, Oslo, Nyky taiteen museo, Helsinki, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, Statens Konstråd, Malmö, The Hasselblad Collection,
Göteborg, Upplands Konstmuseum, Uppsala. Grants: 2004: Bildkonstnärfondens Stora Stipendium. 2001: Nominated for The Citigroup Private Bank Photography
Prize. 1994: Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm. 1992: Nominated for the ICP Infinity Award, New York. 1991: Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö. 1988: Nocturne Kulturpris,
Stockholm. 1988: Sveriges Författarfond. 1982: Konstnärnämnden, Stockholm. 1980: Sveriges Författarfond, Stockholm. 1979: Konstnärnämnden, Stockholm.
Group Exhibitions (selected): “Christer Strömholms Fotoschule”, Willy Brandt Haus, Berlin. “Networking”, P-House, Tokyo. “Stranger Than Paradise”, ICP, New
York (travelling exh). “Pod ostona nieba”, Centrum Szuki Wspótczesnej Patac Ujazdowski, Warzaw. Monografier (selected): Östlind, Niclas. VERKLIGEN?!, Arena,
Värnamo 2009: 96 pp. (32 ill.), Castenfors, Mårten. HYBRIS/HUBRIS. Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm 2008: (166 illus.). DAWID. Galerie 213, Paris 1999: 36 pp. (31 ill.).
www.dawid.nu
Born in 1972, Khulna, Bangladesh
Background: Teaching at The College of Journalism and Mass Communication (CJMC) in Kathmandu, Nepal. Student of
Pathshala, The South Asian Institute of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 2002: Pressphotographer. His photographs have been used in reports, brochures,
calendars & advertisements. With his expertise in Documentary Photography, he has earned a reputation among various multinational organizations as well.
Exhibits: His images have been exhibited in Japan, India, Nepal and Bangkok and at various locations in Bangladesh. Awards: Shehab has won numerous awards
in the field of photography and journalism, eg. from WHO, ASAHI Shimbun & IIPC and National awards in Bangladesh He also won the title of Pakhal – The Keeper of
Birds. His work on birds started as a project, ‘Into the Bird’s World’. Images have been published in both domestic and international publications like Time Journal of
Photography, The Politiken, USA Today, CBS news, Time Online, The Guardian, Times daily, New Internationalist, & The Nepali Times. www.shehabuddin.com
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Dystopic construction (palast) collage
Rikard Olsson
“I am more interested in why someone takes photos, then what they take photos of”
“To be a photographer? It’s not really like work, it’s always fun!”
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Søren Lose is a Danish artist who works with
photography as a medium. His main theme is the
investigation of photography and photography’s
connection with time, memory and community.
His photo series “Panorama”, “Hotel” and “The
Rhodes Lead” look at the 1960s when the west
experienced an economic boom and an enormous
growth in mass tourism.
Søren Lose grew up on the island of Lolland in southern Denmark.
Lolland is a sparsely populated island with a characteristic, flat landscape. Beside photographing, Lose also uses video and installations,
wanting to explore media in various social contexts and their capacity
to communicate. At the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen he
concentrated on sculpture to avoid a one-sided focus on photography
becoming too limiting.
His projects often begin due to accidental circumstance or with
an idea that emerges from an encounter with historical archive material or other collected works. Among other things he has a large
archive of family and snapshot photos collected on his travels.
“On the one hand, tourist photos are hyper banal, but they are
also a way of portraying a larger reality.”
“The relation between home and away is important, because
travel is partly about defining yourself in relation to a place of belonging – an identity, a perspective. Without this, place would have no
validity – or in validity.”
Lose has repeatedly questioned tourist photography’s uniform
nature and conventions: tourist attractions have their own iconographic roles, while tourist photography more or less consciously
repeats the correct view of the icon.
Most people assign a postcard very little value. But when they are
viewed again later, and put in glass and framed, they can be transformed into museum pieces. And if they attract comments and reflections, they also attract judgement of their value. Is a framed black
and white art photograph worth more or less than a casual private
snapshot?
Lose considers architecture and urban space as a kind of integrated part of human beings, and the exhibition “Phantasmagorie” is
about the city as a collective exhibition and experiential arena.
par
backstrand
Par Bäckstrand began taking photos in 1995 and
is now a popular photographer in Sweden.
Bäckstrand’s unambiguous answer suggests
that maybe it is that simple: being a photographer
is cool, easy and straightforward. And you also
get to let your imagination run riot.
Now 42, Pär Bäckstrand has been a fulltime
photographer since 2001, before which he spent
eight years laying floors. But when his partner began at Beckmans,
(Sweden’s top produkt design school) Bäckstrand took another look
at his career and decided to study photography. After working intensively seven-days-a-week, he became a photo assistant before
starting his own business.
Bäckstrand’s entry into commercial photography came through a
series of coincidental meetings in Japan and Sweden and a success-
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ful attempt to pass himself off as a photographer from a Japanese
magazine, something which allowed him to take photos of wellknown musicians. It wasn’t long before his work was being featured
on CD covers and in magazines, and the rest is history.
Bäckstrand has a clear visual expression, using effects like saturated colour to approach a “film look” and produce unique images.
Dramatic grey-blue skies help to create a masculinity suited to his
strikingly posed male subjects. Though, as Bäckstrand says, the
predominance of men in his portraits is not of his own choice but a
result of assignments.
Although he began using analogue techniques, Bäckstrand now
works digitally.
At Nordic Light International Festival of Photography 2010 Pär
Bäckstrand will have an exhibition of his photos and hold a lecture
about his work.
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Live and work in Berlin, Germany. Education: 1998–2003: The Royal Danish Art Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen,
Born in 1972, Nykøbing, Denmark
2001–2002: Städel Schule, Frankfurt, 1994–1996: The Art Academy on Fuenen, Odense. Solo exhibitions (selected): 2010: Øregaard Museum, Hellerup, Copenhagen. 2009: Phantasmagorie, Overgaden - Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen. 2008: Return to Tomorrowland, Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milano. 2006:
Mellem-billeder, Skive Artmuseum, Skive, 2005: Systematic Art Prize, AroS, Aarhus Museum of Modern Art, Aarhus. 2002: Rhodes- revisited / Rhodos t/r, Galleri
Image, Aarhus. 2001: Souvenir, The Royal Danish Academy for Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 2000: Der Fall Horst, Prima Art, Kiel. 1997: Diasaften, Danish Oxin, Copenhagen. 1996: Rekonstruktion, Ryesgade 6, Copenhagen. Group exhibition: Italy, Mongolia, China, denmark, Germany, Sweden, Finland, USA, Asia and many more
countries. Awards (selected): 2008: Nomination for Sovereign Artprize, London. 2007-2009: The Danish Arts Foundation, 3 year stipend. 2005: SYSTEMATIC Art
Prize. 2004: Dronning Ingrids Romerske Fond. Collections (selected): 2006: The Danish Academy, Rome. 2007: Santralistanbul, Istanbul. 2008: Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin. Curator: Søren Lose has curated several exhibitions in Denmark. www.sorenlose.dk
Born in 1967, Växjö, Sweden
Education: 1995–1996: Gfu Photoschool. 1997-2001: Photo assistant. Working with portraits, mainly at location. Clients: Stern,
Mens Vouge, Marie Claire, Madame Figaro, Magazine Café, King Magazine, Plaza Magazine, Plaza Woman, Pen Magazine, Interni Magazine, Recidence, Diego, Kupé,
Reklame, Eon, Red Bull, H.M Kung Carl XVI Gustaf, KPMG, Bacho Tools, Sony/Bmg, Virgin/Emi, Warner Music, Viasat 8, Kanal 5, Kanal 9, Tv 4, Yara, Jm Constructing,
Dagens industri, Aftonbladet, Folktandvården, Kalmar industries, Ragn-Sells, Försvaret. www.parbackstrand.com
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st. marcus square
“I want to show that there’s more to everyday life, more in each and every moment”
øystein
kvanneid
“Aandahl’s work plays with the notions of performance and identity”
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WORKSHOP
exhibition
Photography means the world to me. Friends,
love, travelling and exploring. Taking photos is so
much more than just memories. It’s something
that wasn’t supposed to exist. Stopping time is
impossible. You show one moment in time, make
it eternal and give others the possibility to look
into that piece of history. An event that is either
huge or miniscule. It’s impossible to express with
words. It’s so rewarding that I can’t imagine not doing it.
And what do I want from my photos? To show people what they usually
take for granted. To show that there’s more to everyday life, more in
each and every moment. To show the startled people who curse a
skateboarder flying over their heads that the moment also has a
magic. Maybe they will see the photo and know that we created
something beautiful?
Øystein Kvanneid has been working with photography for about
six years. After studying, he spent a year as an apprentice for a photographer in Stavanger. In 2005 Kvanneid returned to Kristiansand to
finish serving his military service in the Norwegian Army.
He moved to Oslo in the winter of 2009/2010. Kvanneid shoots mostly
extreme sports like skateboard, snowboard and surfing, but has also
done some fashion and advertisement jobs for various clients.
His interest in photography can be traced back to a pretty bad
skateboard injury that forced him to become an extreme sports spectator for a while. At this point, it came quite natural for him to combine a new interest for photography with skateboarding.
The result was good enough for the manager of the local skateboard shop to want to use the photos in an advertisement in “The
Board Bible”, one of Norway’s biggest skateboard magazines at the
time. The editor of The Bible, who is also a photographer, noticed
Kvanneid’s photos and started giving him assignments for the
magazine.
Other than shooting sports, Kvanneid focuses on widening his
horizon by taking photos of everything he sees, from landscapes to
people. He tries to give his pictures sharp focus and strong colours,
so that everyone who sees them can share the same good feeling he
got taking them.
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Born in 1985, Kristiansand, Norway
Education: Media & Communication at Vennesla High School in Kristiansand. EXHIBITIONS: He has exhibited in Venice in
a group exhibition, and at “Fjølfæst”, a skateboard festival in Drammen, Norway. Kvanneid is in the very start of his photographic career, and now shoots for lots of
Norwegian and international extreme sports magazines. He has a staff position at Playboard Magazine. He also works as a school photographer every autumn, to
finance his travels. www.kvanneid.com
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Philip
McCormack
Philip McCormack, born in London in 1974, later
moved to Kristiansund with his mother where he
lived until he was nineteen.
A fascination for how place shapes identity
and for the construction of the self became an
interest from an early age. While studying for a
BA in Social Anthropology at NTNU in Trondheim
he discovered photography as a tool to communicate narratives of identity and place. His first project was a staged
photography series on the views of gender roles, exhibited in 1999 at
Kunstakademiet in Trondheim.
In 2000 Philip moved back to London to study photography and
art. He holds a Honours Bachelor’s degree in photography from Kent
Institute of Art and Design. Philip still lives in London today where he
works as a photographer and visual artist.
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He is running a studio in East London, a space organising art
related events and exhibitions and offers reasonable studio spaces to
artists, and also works as a freelance photographer for newspapers
like Hackney Gazette and The Telegraph.
For the last 5 years Philip McCormack has been working on long
time projects, where concepts of history and myth together with the
experience of journeys animates the work.
The photographic image has other functions rather then “capturing the real”. Images shown during the Nordic Light festival will be
from a project done in Namibia over a period of two years where the
work is about “how different realities interact with each other.”
The image series creates a complex story about fact and fiction,
examining issues surrounding the themes of class, race and the idea
of “otherness”.
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Born in 1974 London, United Kingdom
Education: BA in Social Anthropology at NTNU in Trondheim, studyed photography and art in London, and holds a
Honours Bachelor’s degree in photography from Kent Institute of Art and Design. His first project was a staged photography series on the views of gender roles,
exhibited in 1999 at Kunstakademiet in Trondheim. www.philipmccormack.co.uk
McCormack is presented by Maxbo Backer
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harry belafonte, 2009 (for unicef)
“It is ‘stills photography’ that moves us most!”
The inescapable, unstoppable, restless, questioning, lively Morten Krogvold
leif
preus
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exhibition
Photo: Magne Finslo
A blue sky in a digital picture consists of ‘just’
numbers, but essentially a digital picture is very
like an analogue one. Just as each silver particle
in a film must have a tiny imperfection, a tiny flaw
or crack, for it to be affected by light, so must the
silicon core in every pixel in a digital camera have
an element of contamination, probably a trace of
aluminium, for it to be affected by light. Photons,
light’s smallest components, cannot affect either a silver particle or a
pixel unless a so-called electron trap exists in the form of a defect or
deformity. The silver particle in a film represents a very simple form
of memory. The particle only needs six or seven photons to “know”
that it is carrying valuable information. A small number of genes in
our DNA represent a simpler form of memory, so we can safely say
that photography has always hovered on the edge of the possible.
Photography resembles an oriental carpet: however perfect the
carpet appears, it generally has a small in-built flaw. Only the prophet
Muhammad and his teachings are perfect – nothing should challenge
the infallibility of the Prophet, not even an oriental carpet. (Leif Preus
interviewed in Fotografi # 26, July 2006.)
The ‘father’ of Norwegian photography, Leif Preus retains enormous influence and has a professional network of relationships
second to none.
“When Leif does something, it has to be first class. Leif Preus has an
unparalleled position in Norwegian cultural circles. No one means
more for Norwegian photography than him. Who he is? An original
and fascinating human being. (--). As a photographer he has never
been better. As a humanist he is unique.”
Morten Krogvold, Artistic Director,
Nordic Light International Festival of Photography.
morten
krogvold
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Morten Kogvold retrospective? Never. It´s not
possible. There is no other photographer who
lives as much in his own time as Morten Krogvold
does. He lives in the here and now, all the time.
Visually and verbally. He is probably one of the
most vivid Norwegian photographers living today.
The inescapable, unstoppable, restless, questioning, lively Morten Krogvold. The good photographer. Norways leading ambassador for photography. A fine human
being, who enriches us,encourages us, who makes us think, makes
us live, makes us doubt, makes us wake up. Who shows us how he
sees us. Who makes us happy. And mostly the latter. Whether it´s
him or his pictures we meet.
Morten Krogvold is conservative. He wants to preserve and
develop the best in our cultural heritage. He builds on the photo-artclassical tradition which he refines and revives in his photographs.
He is modern, living intensely in the present, tiringly lively. He can
speak continuously for five hours without a manuscript and without
his audience looking at the clock. To be photographed by Morten
Krogvold is in itself an unforgettable experience. The picture is just
a bonus.
And what will he talk about?
On maintaining sharp senses.
How to solve practical and technical problems whilst managing the
sensory and artistic aspects.
Dialogue with your doubt.
The fight against routines: how to avoid habits shrouding your sight.
How to develop and remain creative.
Dialogue with the “universal burial grounds”.
Attitudes to our craft and the people around you.
How to approach a subject – from the first moment of the process to
the finished picture.
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Born in 1928, Horten, Norway
Education: 1948–56: Officer, Royal Norwegian Marine. 195l: Preus Foto AS. 1971: Colour Art Photo. 1976: Preus Fotomuseum, Director. 1956–88: Preus Foto/Preus Foto AS. 1988–2000: Chairman of the board, Preus Foto AS. 1967–71: Chairman – Borre Barnevernsnemnd,
1985–88: Chairman of the board, Kreditkassen, Horten. 1992–94: Chairman of the board – Vestfold Festspillene. 1995–97: Director, Norsk museum for fotografi
– Preus fotomuseum. 1978: The Council of Europe’s “Museum of the year award”. awards: 1979: Kulturpris Horten Kommune. 1998: Borre Rotary Klubbs
Bragdpris. 2001: Knight of the first Class of the Norwegian Royal Order of St. Olav, Member of Studentenes Fotoklubb – Vestfold Fotograflaug. Honourary
member: Nordisk Fotografforbund, Hortens handelsstands forening, Norges Fotografforbund, Norsk selskap for fotografi, Horten Kameraklubb, Hortens
smalfilmklubb, Paul Harris Fellow Rotary International, Horten Rotary Klubb, Colour Art Photo Danmark, Colour Art Photo Tyskland, Colour Art Photo Sveits.
Honourary citizen: Horten, 2008
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Born in 1950, Oslo, Norway
Selected solo exhibitions: 1985–87: Travelling exhibition, USA. 1987: Galleri F15, Jeløya, 1987: International Gallery of Art,
China. 1988: Trianon de Bagatelle, Paris. 1993: National Museum, Monuments and Art Gallery, Botswana. 1994: Billedhuset, Copenhagen. 1995: Royal Academy of
Arts, Dublin. 1997: Nordens hus, Reykjavik. 1998: Photo Biennial, Soderhamn. 1999: Time, Stenersen Museum, Oslo. 2000: Bilina, the Czech Republic. 2001: City
Hall of Oslo, travelling exhibition. 2002: Bengal Gallery of Fine Art, Dhaka. 2003: Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo. 2004: Alliance Françoise, Dhaka. 2004: Henie Onstad
Art Centre, Oslo. 2005: Shakir Ali Museum, Lahore. 2006: Trygve Lie Gallery, New York. 2007: Nordic Light Festival, Kristiansund. 2009: Foto Art Festival, BielskoBiala, Poland. 2009: Palazzo Braschi, Museo de Roma. Bibliography: 1982–2007: 15 books presenting own work, and contribution to numerous more in
cooperation with various writers and artists. Theatre productions: 1996: Photo design, The wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, The National Theatre, Oslo. Television
productions: 2003–09: Ansikt til ansikt (Face to face): 25 interviews with cultural personalities in Scandinavia, The Norwegian Broadcasting Company. 2004: About
the Norwegian Society of Sea Rescue, Award winning television documentary presented by TV2. Festivals: 2006-: Creative director for Nordic Light International Festival of Photography, Kristiansund. Honours and awards: 1979: Norwegian state travel grant and scholarship. 1980: Norwegian state three-year work scholarship for artists. 1989: First recipient of Norway’s Photographer’s Award, in connection with the 150th anniversary of photography. 1996: City of Oslo Arts Award. 1999:
City of Bilina Cultural Award, the Chez Republic. 2002: Hasselblad Masters, Sweden. 2004: City of Oslo Cultural Award of Honour. 2005: Vågå Municipality’s Cultural
Award, in recognition of presentation of over 100 workshops with more than 3000 participants, conducted in Vågå, Norway. 2005: Knight of the first Class of the
Norwegian Royal Order of St.Olav. www.mortenkrogvold.no
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greenland, 2009
Eels, male and female
a Norwegian nature photographer with a passion for animals and birds
at his best when he works under pressure, under-water pressure that is
kai
jensen
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exhibition
Kai Jensen is a Norwegian nature photographer
with a passion for animals and birds. He is web
editor for the new Norwegian nature photography
magazine Natur & Foto, where he is also part of
the editorial team. He also holds courses in photo
storage and photographic post-production using
Lightroom, both in Norway and abroad.
Kai Jensen’s fascination for nature at both
micro and macro levels has combined with his talent as a photographer to result in a range of prizes in national and international
photography competitions. In 2008 he became Norway’s ‘photo-hunter’ of the year, in a major competition featuring many of Norway’s
best nature photographers. He has also won several international
prizes at IFWP, including the class for birds (2009) and third place in
the class for mammals. In 2008 he was voted photo-hunter of the
year in Villmarksliv magazine.
The allure of nature continues to attract Jensen, who was on
assignment in Greenland for Wild Wonders of Europe in the autumn of
2009. It was a meeting with ice bergs and deep fjords that gave him an
insight into how people and animals live in balance with a ruthless
natural environment. Kai Jensen has used these experiences to create
a lecture entitled “Greenland: wild, wonderful and ruthless nature”.
Kai Jensen has plenty of experience of producing magazines and
books. In 2005 he published “Mitt Nordmarka”. His pictures are
mainly sold through Scandinavia’s major stock photo agency, Scanpix.
He is also a member of the Norwegian nature photographers and of
Wild Wonders of Europe’s ‘dream team’.
nils
aukan
exhibition
Some of the world’s best underwater photographers come from Norway. One of the best of
these is Nils Aukan.
He is at his best when he works under pressure, under-water pressure that is. He has won
numerous awards for his submarine pictures. His
area of interest is wide, including scenery,
biology, marine archaeology and creative submarine photography. Nils Aukan has a long track record within
underwater photography and is considered among the best best and
most experienced in his field. When I spoke to him earlier in the
autumn he was mourning the drowning of yet another digital SLR
camera because of a badly designed ‘waterproof’ camera housing.
But it takes more than a little saltwater in a camera to stop Nils. If
you meet him, ask about the time he recruited a troop of soldiers to
fix his F90x.
Nils is an enthusiastic storyteller, both in pictures and words, and
as a retired scene of crimes technician he is also used to finding
stories and motives where others cannot. This is the case with the
‘motive’ in this ‘picture of the week’. He must have been patient to
capture this shrimp sitting on a small hydromedusa jellyfish with the
Latin name of “Tima Bairdii”, a specimen he has only ever seen on
this one occasion. And with more then a hundred dives a year under
his belt, Nils has seen more undersea life than most. But has he seen
everything? “Not yet!” he says.
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Born in 1968, Aurskog-Høland, Norway
In 2008 he was voted photo-hunter of the year in Villmarksliv magazine. Member of Wild Wonders Of Europe. Won merits
in several international competitions, including IFWP (international federation of wildlife photographers). Part of the editorial team at new Norwegian nature
photography magazine Natur&Foto. Member of Norwegian nature photographers (NN). Featured in several books in addition to his own publications.
www.villmarkspicturer.com, villmarskpicturer.blogspot.com, www.natureogphotography.no
Born in 1944, Kristiansund, Norway
Nils Aukan began photographing under water as early as 1968, and has been a participant of many national and international photography contests. awards: He has won countless Norwegian Championships, the last medal he won was gold in 2005. In Nordic Championships of
submarine photography, he has won several gold and silver medals in the years between 1970 and 2005. He has won a total of 52 gold, silver and bronze medals.
In addition, he received a gold medal at the CMAS Grand Prix Florida in 1985, as well as honourable rankings in Germany and Austria. Nils Aukan has attended World
Championships as a team leader or participant in Cadaques Spain, Cuba, Menorca, Ålesund and Marseilles. He achieved a 3rd place at the CMAS, World Championships of Cuba, 1992. His photographs have been published in various publications and books, in Norway and internationally. www.aukanphoto.no
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Reconstructed Town
norwegian 7 photohistorical association 7 kristiansund
“The camera is merely a tool for expressing out thoughts and feelings”
trine
ottesen
Arnfinn Johnsen has run a portraiture and advertising studio in Hamar since 1992. During his 25year career Johnsen has become one of Norway’s
most commended photographers, with more than
100 awards from professional competitions. He
has been acclaimed “Photographer of the Year”
by the Norwegian professional photographers
association, as well as being voted Hedmark and
Oppland County’s best photographer ten times. Johnsen was also
voted Wedding photographer of the year by Mona Grudt, editor of the
bridal magazine Your Wedding, in 2000.
“Dance of Life” is a project about tackling life’s crises. Johnsen met
and got to know Trine and her family during a family photo session some
10 years ago. Trine asked him to take the pictures for “Dance of Life”.
Arnfinn Johnsen have been a professional portrait and advertising
photographer since 1985, but have always had artistic projects running in
parallel. He constantly searches for new knowledge and inspiration and
pushes himself to make creative photo books, to take courses and workshops and to visit exhibitions. A decisive example was attending three of
Morten Krogvold’s workshops in Vågå. He learned that photography is
created using hearts and minds. The camera is merely a tool for expressing out thoughts and feelings. Photography’s greatest challenge as a
medium is to communicate these thoughts and feelings to the observer
via a piece of photographic paper.”
For half of her 55 years Trine Ottesen has worked
with children, mostly in Norway, but also for a
year in the USA and five years in Ecuador.
Children have a natural ability to understand and
adapt to their surroundings. Working with them
and observing how children respond to their surroundings, made Trine Ottesen feel in harmony
with life.
In autumn 2009, when she was being treated for breast cancer,
this discovery gave Ottesen the courage and energy to start the project
Livsdans. Together with the photographer Arnfinn Johnsen, she
wanted to create a visual expression using her body and Johnsen’s
photographic lens. Ottesen describes her project as an expression of a
human being’s innate ability to accept and cope with life.
During the Nordic Light International Festival of Photography she
will reveal for the first time this photo project “Livsdans”.
The architect Tor Kraft has designed the exhibition, while designer
Ashley Booth has integrated Ottesen’s poetic texts with the images.
The images are also featured in Ottesen’s book “Livsdans” (acceptance of naked skin) due for release in spring 2010. The Nordic Light
International Festival of Photography will mark the starting point of a
new career for Ottesen, something she describes as “vitam fascientes
in caritate” – living with mutual dignity.
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in the gallery
exhibition
Photo: Arnfinn Johnsen
Photo: Arnfinn Johnsen
arnfinn
johnsen
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Born in 1958, Senja, Norway
solo exhibitions: 20 of his pictures were chosen for the exhibition “Straight in your Face”, at the Preus Museum – Norway’s
national museum of photography. 1992–1994: “The Gold Club”, featuring Norwegian Olympic gold medallists. 2002: “103 Moments”, which presented Norwegian
portrait photography. 2002: Hasselblad catalogue. 2009: Johnsen received a Bronze Award and a Merit Award from the prestigious US photo magazine “Black and
White”. 2009: Johnsen won the Norwegian photographers association’s highest distinction, which he will officially receive in March 2010. 2010: Merit Award. Arnfinn
Johnsen has also held a series of courses and workshops in Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Italy. Scholarships from the Norwegian professional photographers fund
and Hamar and Hedmark county councils. www.fotograf-johnsen.no
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Joh. K. Engvig
The theme of the exhibition is “Reconstructed Town”. This year, it is 70
years since the start of the Second World War, and Kristiansund was
bombed. Kristiansund’s geographical location and the harbour made
this town an important brick in ”Fortress Norway” for the German
occupants. The rebuilding of the town started during the war and
continued after the war´s end. The church of Kirkelandet, which was
consecrated in 1964, is considered as the fulfilment of the reconstruction period. Reconstruction architecture is the term which is used for
the bombed town. Kristiansund has an important position within
reconstruction architecture, because well known names within
architecture and town planning, like Arne Kosmo, Erik Rolfsen and
Sverre Pedersen, laid the basis for what is today looked upon as a
successfull reconstructed town. We present three photographs of the
same house/area – from before the war/before the house was built,
how it looked during the war and how the same house/area looked
during/after reconstruction.
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Point of No Return
22 days 7 under attacK 7 gaza strip
stuart
franklin
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portfolio
Photo: abid katib
Magnum photographer
Stuart Franklin is back
again in Kristiansund –
this time as curator. He
is presenting the widely
discussed exhibition
“Point of No Return”,
featuring photos taken
by 12 Palestinian photographers during the
22-day-long attack on the Gaza strip in late
2008/ early 2009. The exhibition was first
shown at the Noorderlicht Festival of Photography in Holland in 2009, where news
agency Associated Press opposed the exhibition by stopping production of the catalogue, citing Franklin’s ‘pro-Palestinian’
introduction as the reason.
Stuart Franklin has travelled all over the
world in search of stories during his career
of over a quarter century.
He studied photography at the West
Surrey College of Art and Design and at the
age of 24 began working as a photographer
for The Sunday Times and The Sunday
Telegraph Magazine. During his time with
Agence Presse Sygma in Paris Franklin was
drawn ever deeper into photojournalism,
inspired by photographers who reported
from diverse conflict zones.
Franklin followed their example,
reporting on the Nigerian exodus of 1983,
the Heizel stadium drama, the bombardment
of military bases in Beirut, the conflict in
Northern Ireland and the famine in Sudan in
the mid-1980s. In the summer of 1985
Franklin was invited to join the famous photo
agency Magnum, of which he became a full
member in 1989. That year he reported on
the student protests in Tiananmen Square,
which resulted in his first photo book.
After a return to the classroom – in 2002
Franklin took a doctorate in geography – he
devoted himself to the administrative side of
Magnum. In 2006 he was chosen as chairman, a function that he recently laid down.
As a photographer Franklin is active for
National Geographic and other publications.
He also puts energy into a large project on
the changing landscape of Europe on an
almost daily basis.
For Noorderlicht Franklin went to the
Gaza Strip to speak with Palestinian photographers who sought to do their work under
the most difficult circumstances imaginable
during the most recent Israeli incursion.
POINT OF NO RETURN, the resulting exhibition, is the work of a man who does not
mince words, and feels involved with the lot
of the underdog.
how the exhibition started
At the start of 2009 Noorderlicht invited Stuart Franklin to
curate a show for the upcoming festival. Not long after our
request Franklin proposed to travel to Gaza to visit Palestinian
photographers who captured the recent Israeli incursion into
the Gaza Strip.
Noorderlicht gladly agreed to this and sent him on his way.
Franklin spoke to many photographers and became ‘drawn to
the shuddering rawness of their photography’. Back in London
he worked passionately on the exhibition that became Point of
No Return which was exhibited at Human Conditions: the
Noorderlicht Festival of Photography 2009 in Groningen, the
Netherlands. Every day the public’s response was nothing
short of emotional. Although Noorderlicht is a documentary
festival and has exhibited harsh and confronting photography
before, this show seemed to not just shock but truly affect
people, and many were moved to tears. Still, all seemed to be
aware of the necessity to see what these photographers
witnessed. Noorderlicht is proud to have hosted this exhibition
work and thanks Nordic Light for continuing to show what
cannot be denied.
e Nordic Light wants to show not only the photos, but also
create debate in an attempt to put the spotlight on the topic of
freedom of expression. Stuart Franklin and Mads Gilbert will
attend a debate at Nordic Light.
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Born in 1956, London, United Kingdom
Education: 2002: Ph.D Geography, University of Oxford, Oxford. 1997: Bachelor of Arts (Geography) University of Oxford,
Oxford. 1979: Bachelor of Arts (Photography and Film), West Surrey College of Art and Design, Surrey. Awards: 1997: Gibbs Prize for geography, University of
Oxford. 1989: World Press Photo Award. 1987: Tom Hopkinson Award. 1985: Christian Aid Award for Humanitarian Photography. Publications: 2005: Hôtel Afrique
- Pitzhanger Gallery, London. 2004: The Coast Exposed - National Maritime Museum, London. 2000: The Time of Trees - Octagon Gallery, Bath; Trussardi Gallery,
Milan, Italy. 1993: Tale of Two Cities - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. 1990: London - The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Books: 2005: Sea Fever, Bardwell Press.
2003: The Dynamic City, Mondadori. 2000: The Time of Trees, Leonardo Arte. 1990: Tiananmen Square, A.J. Vine.
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“Point of No Return” is supported by Fritt Ord
look 7 listen 7 learn
Mads Gilbert (picture above) works fulltime as a doctor in Tromsø, Norway. He also works for the Red Cross as part of the medical team that
goes to war zones or other areas experiencing humanitarian crises. In late 2008, Israel attacked Gaza for a period of 22 days. During the attack
all journalistic activity was prohibited and the medical team was responsible for making reports to the outside world. On mobile phones across
Norway, messages were received that explained the situation in Gaza and cried out for a response. When Mads Gilbert returned to Norway, he
wrote a book along with his Gaza colleague Erik Fosse. “Eyes in Gaza” (Øyne i Gaza) tells of their experiences and gives a short introduction to
the political conflicts that have dominated the area for decades. Read more about Mads Gilbert at page 37.
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The photographers
22 days 7 under attacK 7 gaza strip
ASHRAF AMRA (22)
Started to take pictures four years ago when I was
socializing with Reuters journalists. A good picture
for me is one that carries big meaning. The bad
pictures are when you see yourself in the picture,
wounded.
[when the borders were open]. 1998: Associated
Press (AP). At that time Gaza was calm so we
photographed Arafat and other feature stories.
Then with the Intifada the situation changed.
I documented the moment when Mohammed
al-Durra was killed.
Khalil Hamra (30)
Born in Kuwait. Khalil Hamra is an award-winning
photographer for the Associated Press(AP) based
in Gaza. 2001: Degree in journalism from the
Islamic University in Gaza City. 2001: Associated
Press (AP) as a stringer in his hometown of Rafah
2006: Associated Press (AP)
ABID KATIB
Getty Images
Born to Palestinian refugee parents in Rafah
refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Due to
financial constraints he was unable to continue to
higher education, but in 2000 earned his diploma in
media and popular relations studies. He later
graduated with a bachelor degree in media and
information from the American World Open
University. 1992: Stringer cameraman with Vis
News. 1993: Reporter for the local Palestinian
newspaper al-Quds. 1994: Stringer photographer
for Reuters. 1997: Associated Press. At the same
time, Katib was also working for the local
Palestinian daily al-Hayat. 1999: Palestinian
newspaper al-Ayyam. 2001: Getty Images in the
Gaza Strip, covering the Israel-Palestinian conflict
and general news. 2009: Shortly after the end of
Israel’s Cast Lead military operation in the Gaza
Strip, he was badly injured by burning petrol while
covering a Hamas rally in Gaza City. He has been
recovering ever since. His photos have been
published in almost every major newspaper and
news magazine in the world.
EYAD BABA (31)
1999: I picked up my first camera. My brother was
teaching me continuously about the elements of a
picture and how to frame and convey the story.
Studying public relations at Al Aqsa University
From Rafah (Yebna). 2003: Started working as a
photographer.
Mohammed Saber (30)
Legal name: Saber Ibrahim Noureldine
Country of Birth: Gaza Strip
Work for EPA - European Pressphoto Agency
Ali Noureldine (24)
Legal name: Ali Ibrahim Noureldine. Signs photos
as Ali Ali. European Pressphoto Agency (EPA)
Country of Birth: Gaza Strip
HATEM MOUSSA (34)
I have always liked photography and had a camera
since I was young. I took courses in Jerusalem
Mahmud Hams
Full name: Mahmud Ibraheem Hams
Location: Gaza Strip – Palestine
2003–: Agence France-Presse, Gaza Strip.
Wounded in 2004 while covering an Israeli army
operation in Gaza. 2005– The Islamic University of
Gaza, Gaza Strip. Photography Lecturer.
EDUCATION: B.A, Journalism and Information.
AWARDS: 2004: China International Press Photo
Contest. 2006: Third Place, Portrait, Single Arab
Press Awards. Best Photo of the year. 2006: China
International Press Photo Contest, Gold. 2007: War
& Disaster News, Singles. Prix. AYEUX-CALVADOS.
Des correpondants de guerre. Trophee Photo.
Award of Excellence, Newspaper Division, Spot
News. 2007: PICTURES OF THE YEAR INTERNATIONAL. 2008: DAYS JAPAN, International
Photojournalism Awards. Third Prize.
Mohammed Baba (41)
Mohammad Abd al- Razeq Abdullah al-Baba
Country of Birth: Palestine, Gaza Strip Palestinian.
EDUCATION: B.A degree in Journalism and media
department, Islamic University, Gaza. 1999-2001:
Diploma in Media Masters, research and studies
institution, Egypt. Reuters. 2001-2003: French
News Agency in south of Gaza. 2003–: French
News Agency ‘AFP’. Memberships: Member of
the Ministry of Media, Journalists Union in Gaza,
International Union for Foreign Journalists, and
member of a number of photography associations
and institutions. International prizes: First
prize in the’ Editor and Publisher’, American
competition in ‘News photo’ category. 2008:
Second prize in the ‘Thompson’ competition that
was sponsored by the British council in the United
Kingdom. Second prize for the ‘Japan Days’ competition for photography. Special photo’ prize for
the ‘Boy’ magazine in the USA.
FADI ADWAN (30)
Live in Gaza City. I was born in a refugee camp
(Yebna) and came to Rafah in 1996 to study media
and journalism. I started photography in 2006.
When the war started we were following the
incidents and events. I love my work as a photographer. I wanted to document everything [being
done] to the Palestinian people. Yes I believe my
pictures did make a difference. My photographs
were published all over the world. When I drive my
car we are in danger. Five journalists were killed
during the war.
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MOHAMMED ABID (39)
2000: Started photographing in Rafah during the
Intifada and taught myself how to handle a camera.
Then some foreign photographers taught me – Odd
R. Andersen, a Norwegian photographer in AP was
one of them. “When you take pictures of [dead or
dying] children and you have children yourself you
remember your children. If someone is killed or
injured in front of your eyes do you shoot pictures
or do you try to help them? The answer is that you must keep shooting pictures and
then cry all you want [afterwards].”
SAID KATIP (31)
I used to be an amateur-photographer. With some
help from my brother, who worked as a camera
man for Reuters, I started taking photos. In
September 2000 Reuters needed a cameraman in
the south, in Rafah I have been a professional
photographer ever since.
Photo far left: eyad baba
Photo left: fadi adwan
Photo right: hatem moussa
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Russia
Lithuania:
differences and similarities 7 past and present
lecture
exhibition
No title
Mental hospital in Neppovo, 2006
ALEXANDRA there is
DEMENKOVA no “i”
Lithuania
Since the 1940s Lithuania has more than once been occupied by other nations: first in 1940 by
the Soviet Union, then by Germany and then once again by the Soviet Union. In 1990 Lithuania
was the first of the Baltic States to announce its independence. In 1994 Lithuania became a
member of the European Union (EU).
During the years of communist rule groups of resistance developed, a reaction to the enforced lack of autonomy and individual rights. Thousands of people participated in the Singing
Revolution, a non-violent movement that used mass traditional sing-alongs as a means of
demonstration. Immigrants returned to their native country with the mission to collect and
spread their country’s cultural heritage.
Today, Lithuania has several other nations and cultures to look up to and its national
identity is no longer only connected to Lithuanian ethnicity and culture. The border between
“us” and “them” is no longer absolute. Due to historical and geographical circumstances
Lithuania and Russia are still strongly connected in politics and business.
Russia
Geographically, Russia is the largest country in the world, covering 11 time zones and accommodating 142 million people with over 100 different nationalities. The positive results of the
democratization process initiated by Gorbatsjov have largely been lost. The financial security
that has been gained has been at the expense of human rights and freedom of speech. The
government is well known to be corrupt, and the 21 Russian republics govern as far as possible by their own rules.
Nordic Light International Festival of Photography 2010 has invited photographers from
Lithuania and Russia to exhibit and present their work. By doing so, the Festival wants to show
the variety of expressions existing in these two countries that used to be one. The Festival
hopes that the exhibition will create a dialogue with the audience.
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When he was 16, he
became interested in
amateur cinema and
started to participate in
the activities of the
Non-Professional Film
Association. After an
unsuccessful attempt to
enter the Moscow Film
Institute to study film
direction, he was forced
to join the Soviet Army,
where he served two
years in the Russian
Urals.
EGLE DELTUVAITE
During 1987 – 1990
has a background
he
studied
at Vilnius
in photography. She
Higher School of
established in 2009
a public institution
Technology, the only
“Culture Menu” for
school of film and
photography and
photography in Lithuacultural projects as
nia, where he was
well as publishing
and management
trained as a photo-techand has since been
nologist. In 1990–1993
its director. She is
he worked as a photoArturas Valiauga´s
grapher at Vilnius
translator at the
Technical University.
festival.
In 1991 he started participating in photographic
exhibitions and recording his old cinematic
ideas with a stills camera. In 1992, he joined
the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers.
In 1993, when he became a freelance photographer working in publishing and advertisement, he perceived photography as a means
of self-expression and his photographs were
full of surrealist symbols and metaphors. In
2005 Valiauga was invited by International
Photography and Research Network (IPRN)
for the commission “Work” and implemented
a project “Still Identity”. In 2006 he participated in the Arts Baltica Triennale’ commission and touring exhibition “Don’t Worry, Be
Curious” with the project “Between the
Shores”. Finally, in 2008 he was invited by
curator Mikuka Kikuta to start his project
“Japan Daily Menu” as part of the commission “European Eyes on Japan”, organised by
“EU-Japan Fest”. Seeking a professional
approach to photography as an academic
discipline, in 2008 he started his Master
Degree studies at the Photography and
Media Department of Vilnius Art Academy.
In 2002, Valiauga was awarded the Union of
Lithuanian Art Photographers Prize for Innovation and Development of Photographic Art.
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Born in Vilnius, 1967
Selected Solo
Exhibitions: 2008: “Still Identity” Goethe Institute
/ Rotterdam.“Between the History and Future”
Vilnius Photography Gallery / Vilnius. 2007: “Still
Identity” Museum of Photography / Šiauliai. 2006:
“Still Identity” National Art Museum / Vilnius. 2003:
“A Week Has Eight Days” Photographic Gallery “pf” /
Poznan. 1999: “Reflexio” Photographic Gallery /
Vilnius. 1995: “...from Woman’s Diary”, Photographic Gallery / Vilnius, Lithuania. Selected
Group exhibits: 2008: “Place@Space:(Re)shaping
Everyday Life”, Kunstencentrum Z33, Hasselt.
“Between the Shores”, Contemporary Art Centre /
Gdansk. “HOME BOUND von der (Un)behaustheit
menschlichen Lebens” Kunst:raum Sylt quelle /
Sylt. “Familiar Unfamiliar”, Pavlo Gudimov Art
Centre, “JA”, Kiev, Ukraine, 2007: First International Art Photography Biennale “Windows – Eyes of
Dwelling”, “Lvov gallery of Arts” / Lvov, Ukraine,
First International Moscow Art Festival “Traditions
and Contemporaneity” Central Moscow Exhibition
Hall / Moscow, Russia, 2006: Media Art Project
”Face the Unexpected” Museum am Ostwall /
Dortmund, Germany, 2005: “ Photography from
Lithuania”, Gallery “Lichtblick” / Cologne, Germany.
2004: “In my Own Juice” Centre of Contemporary
Art of Lithuania / Vilnius (toured to Art Museum Of
Estonia / Tallin). 2003: 12th Festival about Nordic
Art and Literature “Les Boreales” Museum of
Normandy / Caen. 2002: “Lithuanian Insight:
Photography: 1960 to now” Fotografie Forum
International / Frankfurt. 1996: “Biennale Europea
della Fotografia d’Autore” Palazzina Mangani /
Fiesole. “ArtGENDA’96” Oksnehallen / Copenhagen.
1995: “Kodak Europanorama” (Grand prix) I’Eglise
des Jésuites/ Arles.
Alexandra Demenkova
did her first photographic projects in the SaintPetersburg region,
Russia, near her birthplace, as her life situation did not allow her to
travel. This turned out to
be a blessing, as she got to know places that
have been ‘off the map’ for most people. For
her it was like discovering a parallel reality.
Demenkova has been able to expand her
travels, going to other regions of Russia and
also abroad. She has realized what an enormous country she comes from and has asked
herself: what is it that unites the people of
Russia? What do they have in common besides the territory and the language? Her
pictures pursue these questions in a continuous quest for answers. Everywhere she
goes, she seeks people whose lives are
hidden and unnoticed by society. The situations she meets are eye-opening: how fragile
this world of relative stability created by our
family is; how thin the borderline between
mental and physical health and sickness,
and between the normality of everyday life
and the misery of imprisonment. Alexandra
Demenkova sees hope and despair in her
people’s stories, along with all of life’s emotions and situations. They appear to her as
real, first-hand experiences of life.
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Born in 1980, Kingisepp
Education:
1998–2003: The State Russian Herzen Pedagogical
University, Department of Foreign Languages,
Saint-Petersburg. 2000–2002: Union of Journalists, Photo Department, Saint-Petersburg. Other:
2007: Joined the Agency. Photographer, Moscow.
Awards: 2006: Saint-Petersburg, ‘The best
press-photographer 2006’, Grand Prix. 2005:
London, ‘The Ian Parry Scholarship’, 3rd prize.
2004: Saint-Petersburg, ‘The Northern Palmyra’,
Grand Prix. Solo exhibitions: 2009: Amsterdam,
Fotogram, “Territory of Broken Dreams”. 2009:
Saint-Petersburg, Museum of the History of
Photography, ‘Obrazy i Podobija’. 2007: Bursa,
Turkey, ‘Ufat’ Photographic Festival.
Photo & video.
Art project.
Full title: Shifting
experiential contexts
allow for recognition that
the so-called “I” exists
only so far as a given
context.
Authors: MP 2008, Group 3: Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge (NO), Paulius Budraitis (USA),
Indré Klimaité (NL). Support: Arnas Anskaitis
(LT), Lina Lapelyte (UK).
Date: 2008, Birstonas, LT.
The project “There is no ‘I’” was conducted during the Migrating Birds workshop
in Lithuania in 2008. Lithuanian artists of different background living abroad or in
Lithuania gathered in Birstonas for a common purpose – for a professional dialog and
collaboration. Many talented artists emigrated from Lithuania to the West after
Lithuania gained independence. Migrating
Birds, supported by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs, is a project that tries to bring those
talents back, if not physically then through
their works. In 2009 Vilnius became the
European Capital of Culture and housed
many creative and cultural events.
“There is no ‘I’” is a project about identity and the individual’s inner processes.
It is about how strongly individuals get
affected by the environment. The so-called
“I” melts due to constant change and
multiple contexts. It is important to remember, that this theme was chosen by
people who experienced emigration, but
still keep strong connections with their
homeland.
Photo: Margrete Myhrer
ARTURAS
VALIAUGA
After becoming free from the Communist occupation, Lithuania has experienced a growing
economy and increased freedom of speech and is eager to be part of the western world.
Russia, on the other hand, is in a completely different situation. During Putin’s government,
the country’s situation has worsened: freedom of speach does not exist and control of
humanistic organizations continues to increase. An example is the execution of the Russian
journalist Anna Politkovskaja in 2006. Politkovskaja was openly critical of the Russian
government and wrote about human rights and the failed war in Tsjetsjenia.
There is no i, 1
Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge was born in 1981,
Rostov on Don, Russia. Moved later to Lithuania.
Darija is the project leader of “There is no Í´”.
Educated as a graphic designer and in media and
communication. She is also a painter and has
exhibited her work internationally.
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young 7 upcoming 7 talent
young 7 upcoming 7 talent
Photo: Thomas Kleive
Photo: Vilde Andrea Starup
Photo: Tone Constanze Ek Andreassen
School exhibitions
Photo: Rozemarijn Grace Idem
School exhibitions
Bilder
nordic
pressejournalistutdanningen Hio
norges kreative
fagskole
norsk
fotofagskole
100 % - a photographic project about our physical health.
In the spring of 2010, 38 students from Bilder Nordic are moving
beyond their borders – in a photographic project about OUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, a theme which is one of the worst taboos nowadays.
TThe project aims to break the silence, to visualise a problem which
concerns everybody – directly or indirectly – even in a wealthy country
like Norway. A part of the exhibition will be shown at Nordic Light,
while the complete exhibition will be presented in April at Østbanehallen in Oslo.
During the bachelor studies final semester the photojournalism students
work on their graduation reportage projects. The results of two months
of fieldwork are thousands of exposures, video, mounds of notes and
hours of sound recordings. The topics of the projects are self-chosen
and range from stories about reindeer herding on Meløy and rural life
in Hvittingfoss, to meetings with sailing bohemians in the Caribbean
and today’s hippies in California. This exhibition shows just a snippet
of the material in the form of one photo from each of the twelve
projects.
The graduating students are: Christian Bergheim, Fredrik
Bjerknes, Cathrine M. Eldorhagen, Bjørn Asle Grimstad, Simen
Grytøyr, Thomas Kleiven, Anette Schive, Jo Straube, Krister Sørbø,
Marius Sunde Tvinnereim and Lina Winge.
Photography at Norges Kreative Fagskole, Trondheim.
20 students have been engaged for nearly two years in the following
subjects: Portrait; Media, Fashion, Advertising, and Art.
Several of these projects are co-operations with other disciplines at
the college. The exhibition will show a selection of their work during
the course of their last year of study.
Norsk Fotofagskole shows selected student work during the festival.
Technically and thematically, these works have little in common – shot
on anything from full format film to small scale digital, in a studio
setting or out on location. During the course, students experiment
with a variety of photographic genres and techniques, from product
shots to nudes. The result is a vast array of creative and esthetic
expressions.
www.bildernordic.no
www.norgeskreativefagskole.no
www.fotofagskolen.no
www.hio.no
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Face to Face
mindfull 7 cultural 7 input
GET 7 UNDER 7 THE 7 SKIN
Photo: Knut Koivisto
Luft i luka
Ola B. Johannessen
Actor and instructor Ola B. Johannessen
reviews Nobel Prizewinner Hamsuns
last book “På gjengrodde stier”.
Hamsun had a special relationship to
Kristiansund. The recently discovered
“Love Letters” have awakened such
interest that Ola B. Johannessen will
use this fact to introduce this fantastic
show with, before presenting excerpts
from the novel “På gjengrodde stier”.
At the age of 90 many believed
Hamsun had laid his pen to rest. He
wrote this novel whilst convalescing at
Grimstad Hospital, waiting for the treason trial against him to get underway.
Ola B. Johannessen will give us a
brief resumè concerning the background for the book and then use his
experience of gestalting Hamsun to
present excerpts from the book in
Hamsun’s voice. During the presentation the actor will delve into the last
thoughts Hamsun shared with the world
and try to understand them in light of
the recurrent themes which played a
central role in Hamsun’s worlds.
Johannessen’s experience of
Hamsun’s world stretches over many
years. Today he works as an instructor
at Norways Theatre High School.
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Morten Krogvold:
On maintaining
sharp senses
Many things concern Morten
Krogvold deeply, and his talks are
rarely briefer than an hour and a
half. He has been lecturing in
Norway and abroad for many
years, for students, large companies, art associations and privately.
Krogvold is inspiring, motivational
and often provocative.
He prefers to challenge people
rather then to praise them. How do
we live today? How do we use our
ability, creativity and the opportunities that exist?
Krogvold generously shares
the experience and knowledge he
has accumulated from his extensive travels, commissions and
encounters around the world.
To be announced
Tommy Sørbø
Åse Kleveland
Mads Gilbert
At the moment of printing, we are
still working on the booking of a
very special someone that we have
wanted to come for a long time.
Unfortunately we are not able to
reveal this name yet.
Tommy Sørbø has described himself,
rather crassly: “I belong to the Norwegian talking class, or more precisely that
part of it that – on professional or political
grounds – will do anything to get its few
minutes of fame. We poser-chatterboxes
prefer to be outspoken, use the conventions of style to verbally attack our
victims, and almost always address
alarming subjects or attitudes. Naturally,
we never let an opportunity to be seen or
heard pass us by…”
In addition to this, Tommy Sørbø is
a humorist, art historian and author
who has worked as a radio writer for
“Hallo i uken” and for a decade as a
lecturer at the Norwegian national
gallery. He has lectured on pictorial art,
aesthetics and philosophy on TV and
also written various textbooks, several
plays and a novel. Sørbø is an enthusiastic lecturer and an outspoken cultural
commentator. He previously worked as
an artist. In other words he has the
professional mandate to make fun of
great art, which he does in his book
“Norges Kunsthistorie” (Norwegian art
history) – a “draft” which is around
ninety-something percent true.
Åse Kleveland is a multi-talented
and intriguing lady. She went from
Gro Harlem Brundtland’s government, via the Musicians Union to
become director of the Norwegian
National Concert Corporation. She
has been a TV presenter; and head
of “Tusenfryd” amusement park as
well as holding leadership positions in various cultural institutions. And way back in 1966 she
won the Norwegian Eurovision
Song Contest. In just 3 months at
the beginning of 1990 Åse received
no less than three honorary
awards within architecture, a prize
in Norwegian Design and Arne
Skouens honorary award. She has
also been a guest on Morten
Krogvold’s “Face to face” TV programme and we look forward to a
happy reunion.
Mads Gilbert is described as an
eternal source of engagement. He
has been politically active since the
Vietnam War was at its peak and
the EU debate was still young.
In the 70s Gilbert became a
member of AKP, The Norwegian
Worker’s Communist Party, which
fought for a classless society. Today
Mads Gilbert works as a doctor in
Tromsø, Norway. He also works for
the Red Cross and goes to war
zones or other areas experiencing
humanitarian crises.
In late 2008, Israel attacked
Gaza for a period of 22 days.
During the attack all journalistic
activity was prohibited and the
medical team was responsible for
making reports to the outside
world. Back in Norway, he wrote a
book along with his Gaza colleague
Erik Fosse. “Eyes in Gaza” tells of
their experiences and gives a short
introduction to the political conflicts that have dominated the area
for decades. They received the
prize “Good Boy” for their dissemination from the war in Gaza during
this period. The prize is awarded
each year to someone who has
assisted the press photographers.
sunday 25. 04 e 17.30-19.00
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sunday 25. 04 e 13.30-15.00
e 275 NOK
e caroline
sunday 25. 04 e 15.30-17.00
e 275 NOK
e caroline
If you buy a day pass, you can attend all three
performance for NOK 650.
friday 30. 04 e 21.30
e 275 NOK / pass e 125 NOK
e Tahitibrygga
wednesday 28.04 e 21.30
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thursday 29.04 e 21.30
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Bits and pieces
Bits and pieces
competitions 7 and 7 small talk
competitions 7 and 7 small talk
Mini photo fair
InterPhoto is arranging a mini photo
fair in ‘Caroline’ building. A range of
suppliers will showcase the latest
equipment and gadgets, and you will
be able to get advice from experts.
Photo equipment, cameras, printers
and other accessories will be on
sale.
The light, sea, eagles and
mountains of Nordmøre.
Nordic Light all-year-round:
Many Norwegian photographers and painters have been inspired by the light and hues
from the sea and landscapes in and around Kristiansund. During Nordic Light you can
experience art, documentary, portrait, nature and family photography. We hope it will
engage visitors and create understanding of our common focus: to exploit the power of
the moment. Nordic Light will arrange several workshops and exhibitions during the
year, in this making Kristiansund and Nordmøre into a photographic arena.
Our main sponsors:
Epson
Epson uses the expression
“digigraphy” to describe prints
made on Epson Stylus Pro printers
with ultra-chrome pigment-based
ink on specific paper types. They will
show examples of digigraphy during
the festival.
SpareBank1Nordvest 175 year
SpareBank1Nordvest celebrates its
175th anniversary this year. It will
therefore display its own photo
exhibition during the festival. Vidar
Flovikholm’s pictures from the book
“Din tur!” will be exhibited at AMFI
Storkaia Brygge.
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The Nordic Light International Festival of Photography is concerned about our shared
visual perception and how important this is for our cultural identity. We want to stimulate children and youth, as well as adults. Besides the festival itself, we are also
organizing several competitions that we hope will prove popular.
A child’s
perspective
Photo competition for pupils
at 5th and 8th grade
The children and youth committee at Nordic Light is inviting all 5th and 8th grade
classes in Nordmøre to participate in a photo competition. The theme for the 5th
grade is “What do outer space and the planets look like?” The theme for the 8th grade
is “Sport on wheels”. A jury will choose the best pictures to exhibit. All pictures will be
exhibited and the classes with the best pictures will be awarded.
Children from the Røsslyngveien
and ABC-bakken kindergartens
exhibit their pictures during Nordic
Light. How do children see? What do
they take pictures of? Visit this exhibition and see for yourself.
During the exhibition tour on the
festival’s opening day Morten
Krogvold will officially open this
exhibition.
Gardens and flowers
Mini-seminars
In 2009, the company Byggeindustrien´s website www.hage.no and Nordic Light
announced a major photo competition focusing on the garden. “The response to the
competition has been enormous,” says construction industry chief editor Per Helge
Pedersen. The jury are now trying to shortlist 100 pictures. These will be published
so that everyone can vote for their three favourite pictures. An expert jury will then
make their choices, and we will compare them with the public’s favourites. The
selected pictures will be exhibited during the Nordic Light festival.
InterPhoto is arranging free daily
mini-seminars with different photographic suppliers. Come and learn
from the experts!
Sea eagle photography at Smøla: 3–6 June,
with nature photographer Pål Hermansen.
Smøla has a beautiful location off the coast of Kristiansund. A flat landscape,
swamps, hundreds of islands, small fishing villages and many windmills. Smøla’s
inhabitants have grown up in boats, and can easily navigate through the narrow
straits and around the innumerable skerries. Bait a hook and catch your own dinner,
or find a tiny island and just enjoy the landscape, the bird life and the silence.
The photographic possibilities are endless.
To register, see www.nle.no
On the programme:
• Underwater photography
• The fine art analogue darkroom
• Old techniques, darkroom techniques
• Digital Lightroom
• Video workshops
• Portrait / wedding photography
• Nature photography, excursions by boat, bus and on foot.
Photo-Norway
unites
EVERYONE is invited to refreshments in Caroline Thursday 29.04 at
20:00. We will also announce news
of something few people thought
possible, which is important for
photography in Norway. Welcome!
Blurb is coming
Blurb enables anyone to design,
publish, market and sell commercial quality books. You can make
your book using free, award-winning
Blurb BookSmart® software or your
own programnme. It’s up to you.
www.blurb.com
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Daily delights
advice 7 do´s and dont´s 7 attitude
feedback on your work 7 film experiences 7 social gatherings
Photo: Peter Czajka
Present your work
Helge Baardseth
Helge Baardseth (65) is an author,
photo-journalist and editor. For the
past 16 years he has been editor of
Vagabond, a Norwegian travel magazine with a clear focus on photographic storytelling. This means that
he has a good eye for travel
photography.
Baardseth is a globetrotter, with
the Sahara and India as his favourite
destinations. He has driven across
Africa in a Land Rover, taken to a
motorcycle in Rajasthan, sailed the
great rivers of Asia – and crossed
the oceans as a working sailor.
Baardseth has written a book about
the experience of travel, a guidebook
on Svalbard and collaborated on a
pictorial book on Africa.
In 2009 he published Mannen fra
Tamanrasset, a collection of stories
from a life spent travelling.
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LECTURE
portfolio
+ Burkhard Arnold + Knut Røthe
Burkhard Arnold is the founder,
owner and manager of the in focus
gallery in Cologne, Germany. Arnold
has a passion for a range of art
photography genre, including abstract art, concept art, portraiture,
nudes, architecture, and documentary and reportage photography from
1945 to the present day. He is constantly on the lookout for upcoming
photographic talent, but also exhibits the work of established photographers. Arnold’s contact network
is extensive, spanning galleries,
museums, publishers and photographic periodicals. He is also curator for exhibitions at other galleries
and museums. In Focus also produces catalogues and books on its
featured photographers, often in
collaboration with other galleries,
publishers and institutions.
Burkhard Arnold also has a long
track record with photo festivals. He
was a longstanding board member of
the International Photoszene Köln
photo festival in Cologne. He is a
regular at photo festivals in Arles in
France, Houston (USA) and RhubarbRhubarb in Birmingham (UK), where
he does “portfolio reviews” – critique
of promising photographers’ work
– and is always on the lookout for
interesting photography.
Knut Røthe, born in 1964, is an art
director educated at Westerdals
reklameskole and The School of
Communication Arts, London. He
has had a long career as art director
and creative leader at advertising
agencies in Oslo and London. He has
also been head of the Norwegian
advertising industry association,
Kreativt Forum. Røthe has been
awarded numerous prizes for his
work, both in Norway and abroad.
Røthe is a creative powerhouse
with a remarkable ability to see
opportunities and solutions which
are often both intelligent and humorous. His ability to inspire other
creative people means that we are
happy to welcome him as a guest at
this year’s festival. Don’t miss this
opportunity to pose your questions
about how to present yourself and
your work to an agency.
Portfolio review
Morning films
Festival pub
What is a portfolio review?
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
to submit your work to international
and national photographers – and a
gallerist. During the 30-minute individual sessions, you will be given a
critical assessment and advice. The
sessions will take place in English and
Norwegian. Bring a selection of your
best work as prints.
Photography will always seek
knowledge and inspiration from
other art forms such as film,
literature and music.
Each morning we invite you to
a film. Our Creative Director
Morten Krogvold has a wide knowledge of the film world; both feature films, short films and documentary. He has taken great care
to select a programme containing
a few better known, and many less
known, films. A grand and warmly
recommended start to your day.
After each “Face to Face” at
Tahitibrygga we will keep the
exhilarating festival atmosphere
going with an opportunity to digest
the day´s impressions amongst
likeminded attendees.
Booking: [email protected]
– or visit the festival office (Caroline).
5 reviews
e 1500 nok (students: 900 nok)
single review
e 500 nok (students: 300 nok)
wednesday 28. 04 e 08.30-10
e 225 kr
e caroline
saturday 01.05
e 10.30–18.00
e caroline
every morning e 08.30
e FREE admission
e caroline
every evening
e tahitibrygga
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Exhibitions
Volunteers
34 7 different 7 experiences
can´t 7 cope 7 without
Alexandra Demenkova, Arturas Valiauga and Darija Sapozenkova-Hauge
Norges Kreative Fagskole Trondheim
Alison Jackson
Anton Corbijn
Astro
Røsslyngveien og ABC-bakken Kindergarteens
Bilder Nordic School of Photography
Chris Rainier
Dag Alveng
Dawid
Fotofagskolen i Trondheim
Photohistorical Association Kristiansund
Photojournalism (Oslo University College)
Gaza photographers
Garden photography (competition)
Jan Saudek
Kai Jensen
Kristiansund Camera club
Leif Preus
Marc Riboud
MK Atlanten VGS
Nils Aukan
Norwegian Association of Amateur Photography
Philip McCormack
Press Photographers Association Forbund
Pär Bäckstrand
Romano Cagnoni
Shebab Uddin
School competition 5th. and 8th. grade
SpareBank1Nordvest
Søren Lose
Tidens Krav - press photographers
Arnfinn Johnsen
Øystein Kvanneid
Territory of Broken Dreams
Student Work
No title
Portraits 1990–1999
Astronomy
Art made by children
100% –A photographic project about our mental health
Ancient Marks
The Meaning of Place
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Student Work
Reconstruction Town
Student works
Point of no return
Garden (competition)
Love, Life and Obsessions
Nature photography
Local camera club
Narkissos
Retrospective
No title
Crawling creeps in the harbour of Kristiansund
Yearbook 2009
No title
Picture of the year
No title
Romano Cagnoni: Chiaro Scuro
MARGINAL
How does the outer space and the planets look like / Sports on wheel
Memories of Nordmøre
Phantasmagorie
No title
Life-Dance – by Trine Ottesen
Wish you were here
Opening hours
April 27.
April 28.–30.
May 1.
May 2.
May 3.–7.
May 8.–9.
kl. 16.30–20.00 (The exhibitions are officially opened as the procession proceeds.)
kl. 10.00–21.00
kl. 10.00–19.30
kl. 12.00–16.00
kl. 16.00–19.00 (Or on request)
kl. 12.00–16.00
Elin Akselsen
Christina Aukan
Nils Aukan
Terje Bach
Eirik Barman
Alice Bergfall
Hilda Bjerkestrand
Gjertrud Bjørnvold
Thorleif Leren Bluesmann
Jan Ragnar Boland
Solveig Brevik
Liv Bøklepp
Oliver Causley
Sunniva Dahl
Aage Dahl
Unni Dahl
Marianne Demmo
Ingeborg Eliassen
Sigrun Møst Enge
Kirsti Engvig
Johnny Fevåg
Magnar Fjørtoft
Elin Fladseth
Eline Fladseth
Randi Flatval
Birgitte Fornes
Tor Henning Furmyr
Reidun Furseth
Rolf Furseth
Oddhild Garli
Lars Gjestad
Erna Gjøvik
Graham Ernest Griffin
Eli Grimstad
Øivin M. Grødahl
Kine Lise Grønseth
Rigmor Hansen
Robert Hansen
Per Ola Harstad
Toril Hartviksen
Tove S. Haug
Maria Kristine Haugen
Sara (& Ingrid Olsen) Haugen
Turid Havneraas
Anne Berit Heggem
Alv Magne Helset
Vidar Hoem
Inger Britt Hoem
Kjell Hollen
Jorun Båfjord Holten
Per Magne Holten
Asbjørn Hoset
Evy Hoset
Åse Indergaard
Ann Iren Jamtøy
Ken Alvin Jensen
Eli B. Johnsen
Marianne Johnsen
Rune Jørgenvåg
Ian Olners Kjenne
Eva Knudtson
Inger Lise Knutshaug
Jaqueline Kvambe
Vidar Kvambe
Astrid Kvendbø
Kari Furset Lader
Pål Lader
Knut O. Larsen
Astrid Ledang
Anastasia Lekavreva
Grete Lillevik
Kathrine Lindmann
Astrid Lindmann
Marit Selliseth Loe
Berit Lysø
Eva Løkvik
Bodil Lønnheim
Torkild Madsen
Trude Dragseth Marsteen
Sigrid Mehli
Inge Mellemsæther
Bjørg Myklebost
Ingrid Myklebust
Kristin Nekstad
Gerda Nyborg
Bjørn Johnny Nybrott
Else Naalsund
Svein Arve Naas
Solfrid Naas
Anne Berit Offenberg
Inger Olsen
Hilde Olsen
Kjellaug Olsen
Inger Olsen
Hilde Neuenirchen Olsen
Helen Olsen
Hildegunn Orholm
Evy Otterholm
Janne Owesen
Aase Pedersen
Grete Pedersen
Randi Pedersen
Ruth Rangnes
Nils Rasmussen
Kjell Rasmussen
Ingjerd Reiten
Dagny Roksvåg
Lillian Rotmo
Raghnild Rødseth
Jeanette Røkkum
Bjørn Røsand
Toril Røsand
Bjørn Røsand
Katherine Schalde
Inger Johanne Schnell
Merete Selmer
Ingrid Settemsdal
Tone Sevaldsen
Bjørn Skarsem
Ann Olaug Slatlem
Margrete Slettan
Kristina Solheim
Bernt Solvik
Inge Bjørn Sporsheim
Gunhild Sporsheim
Sylvia Stokke
Else Live Stokstad
Stein Stokstad
Toril Storvik
Oddny Strand
Lars Kristian Strøm Rusånes
Kari Stølan
Nils Stølen
Herdis Sylte
Erling Sæther
Eli Teiseth
Marianne Tverrbakk
Astrid Ulvahaug
Martin Unger
Asbjørn Utheim
Cornelia Vikan
Anne Vike
Gerd Watten
Britt Westavik
Sissel Wiik
Unni Williams
Douglas Wilmot
Wigdis Wollan
Christiane Wullner
Kathrine Øvstegaard
Marit Aakenes
Oddny G. Aarset
Kjell Aarø
Odrun Aarø
Solveig Åsbø
Einar Åsbø
Bente Åsbø
As the festival approaches,
several names will be added.
The photographers will be present at their exhibitions for discussion and questions.
Changes in program may occur.
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43
franco fontana
joel-peter witkin
peter ten hoopen
james nachtwey
martin parr
william klein
alex webb
giorgia fiorio
A look back at
2006–2009
“If I ever will do colour work? Only if I bleed”
Joel-Peter Witkin, 2009
We make no secret of the fact that
we are immensely proud of the
photographers and other guests that
have visited our festival since 2006.
We (almost) haven’t dared to think
that some of them would squeeze
our festival into their hectic schedules. To get them here, we have to
compete with the top photo festivals
in the world.
We think there are several
factors which result in our guests
accepting our invitation to visit a
windswept city they have never
heard about. Norway, especially the
northwest, is itself quite an exotic
destination. And rumours about our
high-quality programme and unique
relaxed and intimate atmosphere
have slowly reached the world’s
leading photographers.
Here is a just a tiny selection of
our past guests. Ready, steady,
enjoy!
joyce tenneson
sarah moon
matt mahurin
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antonio guccione
bruce gilden
jock sturges
don mccullin
arno rafael minkkinen
bruce barnbaum
45
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og arrangement. Vi følger vanlig rutefrekvens.
Festivalinfo: www.nle.no
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Søndag 2. mai starter søndagsruta.
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CONTACT DETAILS – Nordic Light Events AS
Anne Lise Flavik, Director: +47 920 17 130, [email protected] / Morten Krogvold, Artist Director: [email protected] / Lars Liabø, Board Director: [email protected]
Mariëtte Glas Albers, Secretary: + 47 926 84 298, [email protected] / Visitor address: Fiskergate 6 (Arnulf Øverlands Galleri) Innlandet, Kristiansund
Address: P.O.box 78 Kongens plass, 6501 Kristiansund (N), Norway / telephone: +47 71 48 92 38 / mail: [email protected] / web: www.nle.no

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