Looking for clues

4th September 2013 © Lise Utne

Looking for clues

Local celebrities of national fame lending their faces to the governing (in a "red-green" coalition) Labour party's general election campaign. Election poster (behind perspex, with reflections) in bus shelter, 3rd September 2013 © Lise Utne.

Winter stories

January 2011. (© Lise Utne).

Winter stories

November 2010. (© Lise Utne).

Looking for clues

September 2010. (© Lise Utne).

Stories at dusk

September 2010. (© Lise Utne).

Chasing dreams

Trondheim, Norway, May 2010; Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, February 2010. (Photos: © Lise Utne).

Stories from the Cathedral

Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway: Passing by, November 2006; Visitors centre, May 2010. (Photos: © Lise Utne).

Global village

Trondheim, Norway, April 2010. (Photo: © Lise Utne.)

Chasing dreams

Puerto del Carmen, Canary Islands (Spain), February 2010; Trondheim, Norway, January 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Chasing dreams

Bodø, Norway, March 2010; Puerto del Carmen, Canary Islands (Spain), February 2010. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Chasing dreams

Frame-makers' display window, Trondheim, Norway. January 2010; January 2009. (Both photos: © Lise Utne.)

Fitting into the Picture (Oh Man!)

All photos: Trondheim, Norway, 2009 (© Lise Utne)

I found these advertising posters at bus stops in Trondheim, Norway. The reflective surfaces protecting them provided the opportunity to quite literally -- and more or less subtly -- fit myself into the picture.

Fitting into the Picture

Trondheim 2007 (© Lise Utne)

Trondheim 2009 (© Lise Utne)

Trondheim 2009 (© Lise Utne)

Advertising posters are invitations. Invitations to spend money, of course, in most cases. But on one level they are also invitations to identify with the message they convey about the world and our place in it.


(These are part of an ongoing series.)