Do not try this!

I have been photographing railways for the last couple of years. I work as an advisor for the rail sector and I volunteer on a museum railway. I have been appaled to see the recent trend of portraiting people on railway tracks. Why and how this became a thing I …

Moddi in the Opera

That was then. In 2009 I first photographed Pål Moddi Knutsen playing at Natur og Ungdom (Young friends of the Earth) summer camp in Lofoten. Since then I have photographed Pål on several occasions, leading up to my self-released book in 2012. He has released four albums, lastly his collection …

Bergensbanen

The Bergen line, crossing the mountains between Hønefoss and Bergen, is a spectacular trip any day. This september, I got of the train at Hallingskeid, midway on the line, and walked the distance to Myrdal to document the line.                       …

Little trains part II

Some time ago i posted a few pictures from Urskog-Hølandsbanen, a museal railway out of Sørumsand, near Oslo, Norway. Since then, I have joined the ranks of the volunteers running the railway, and have started photographing them. With time, I hope to be a boilerman and then a driver of …