(This blog post is intended for a mostly norwegian audience and is thereby written in this language, Short story: I blended together several images to create one, in order to illustrate the front page of a book about norwegian railway locomotives and carriages) I høst fikk jeg spørsmål om jeg …
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 …
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 …
Land, Norway, june 2016
Åndalsnes, march 2016
Tripoli and Beirut, Lebanon, December 2015
Oslo, july 2015
On an early spring day in 1943, at the hight of the second world war i Euope, Jack Delano walked up on a bridge spanning the Albuquerque, New Mexico, railroad station yard. I imagine him setting up a tri-pod. Attaching his 4×5″ view camera. Taking a light metering. Adjusting the …
All english-reading friends and followers: Sorry this post is in my native tongue, I wrote it for a Norwegian magazine. Hope you enjoy the pictures, I can confirm they are poly-lingual. Verdens lengste jernbane, Transibirskaya Magistral, den Trans-Sibirske jernbane, fra Moskva til Vladivostok, med sidelinjer gjennom Mongolia og Manchuria til …
