29 May 2011

Looking for clues

Sunday afternoon, window shopping outside the thrift shop. May 2011. (© Lise Utne).

11 May 2011

Flashback

The Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Kristiansund, Norway, featured many internationally renowned photographers as guest speakers last week, and the exhibitions can be viewed until the end of this week. The poster in the top image shows one of the photographs from Joakim Eskildsen's exhibition/project/book "The Roma Journeys". The bottom image shows some of the works in Finnish photographers Esko Männikö and Pekka Turunen's exhibition "Pemoht/Remont", photographed in the Kola Peninsula between 1989 and the mid 1990s. (May 2011, © Lise Utne).

7 May 2011

Nordic Light

Festival posters at the entrance to the festival office and lecture venue (Caroline Cinema) on the last day of this year's Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Kristiansund, Norway. Next year's festival will be held at the end of April. (May 2011, © Lise Utne).

5 May 2011

Looking for clues

Top image: From Icelandic photographer Ragnar Axelson's talk on his book The Last Days of the Arctic at the sixth Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Kristiansund, Norway, this afternoon. Bottom: My mother's ivy plants waiting to be re-potted. May 2011. (© Lise Utne).

4 May 2011

Nordic Light

A warning that some viewers might find Chinese photographer Chin Chin Wu's work -- on display at the sixth Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Kristiansund -- offensive, is posted at the entrance to the exhibition. May 2011. (© Lise Utne).