Following my academic path I have relocated to Aalborg, Denmark for an exchange semester.The first few days here have been an extended holiday, discovering new places with my friends and co-students Chris and Solomon. For the camera-nerd: Theese pictures are taken with my girlfriends Minolta CLE with a Voigtländer Color Skopar 21mm f/4, and Kodak Portra 160VC film. Frida (known in the blogosphere as Fëanáre) lent me her beloved camera with the lens that fits my eyes better than hers, for me to use while I’m here. Beautiful people makes life worth living! 

Aalborg, Denmark, august 2012

Urskog- Hølandsbanen, ‘Tertitten’, Sørumsand august 2012

Jåttåvågen, Stavanger, july 2012

Kids playing with an exhibited rescue-device in the Stavanger Petroleum Museum, july 2012

I have wrote about them before, the bastards, the orphans. Pictures with great meaning but hardly meant to be, and without context. The come to be when I put a film in a camera that is older than me, and the rewind fails or, at this occation, the camera is simply left in a corner with a few unknown exposures, the film swapped and left in a cooler for the next time I clean it. Which are a lot of days… Theese picture are the only clear exposures on a roll of film I recently found in the fridge, left …

Some people ask why I usually shoot black and white*, and I don’t always have an answer ready for them. As always, someone have said it better than me, so I quote: “Working with black and white photography has always been the most direct way for me to reach more existential questions. In black and white I feel my images are not bound to a specific location or time, but they create their own universe. I like to think they are about something else and more than just what they show. At least that is my ambition; to focus on …