A sudden gust of wind

These are images I made during an artist residency at Atelier Nøss on the Andøya Island in the north Lofoten Archipelago in Norway. Nøss is a small village on the outer side of the island and the Atelier is a gallery there on an old family farm run by the Tollefsen family of artists. During my stay I was insired to work with the artistic view of the landscape out there on the edge of the open sea. Looking at how to interpret visual and physical impressions of the weather and climate and the special light and darkness that covers everything up there in the northern landscape, and that has drawn artists to visit the area throughout the centuries.

In my work I have used many different analog techniques and created my own collages of mixed processes. Some examples include: building my own pinhole cameraes that photograph collages of the landscape focusing on the horizon. .Making series of lumenprints of the tide and waves coming in and outdoor photograms that I then developed with natural developers based on the image subject like seaweed developer or moss juice and birch sap. I would hang my sheets of film in the trees and spread it out on the seaside rocks to capture the effect of the wind and the waves on the landscape in images that could then be sandwich printed in the darkroom.
All together the photographs show artistic impressions made in collaboration with a landscape that both inspire and dominate whoever seeks to experience it.

The series har been exhibited at Atelier Nøss and in the Vadsø Art Society in Finnmark, Norway.

Handmade original photograms, lumenprints og silvergelatin prints on photopaper
Unique prints -  varying sizes

2022