Jan Rosseel’s work is best described as visual storytelling, between narration and documentation. He works as a collector of memories using photography, video and objects. The starting point of his research-based projects are historical events and the notion of memory. Stories that do not only reconstruct historical events but stories that also ask questions about…
Marte was born in 1988 in Norway. She lives in a little red cabin at Hadeland and is dreaming of big adventures with a sleddog team. She has a degree in photojournalism and previously worked for UTEmagasinet. Marte does mainly outdoor-friendly assignments, as well as being a dog musher for the last ten years. Marte…
Nora Lorek, born 1992 in Germany but living in Gothenburg, Sweden half of her life holds a degree in Photojournalism from Mid Sweden University. Additional to her assignments for newspapers she’s working on long term projects with focus on migration and human rights. For two years she has been working on projects in the French…
Sébastien Van Malleghem immediately delimited a singular photographic universe, in which the incisive breaks and contrasts of the image transcode the constant and oppressive state of emergency that animates his photographic gestures. Since 2008, he has delved into elaborating a triptych exploring the judicial system, of which « Police » and « Prisons »are the…
Anne-Stine Johnsbråten (b.1983) is an independent documentary photographer living in Oslo. TIME called her one of “eight Norwegian photographers you need to follow” in 2015. She mainly works with personal projects, combining reporting with portrait work to explore topics such as gender, identity and discrimination. Several of her long-term projects have been shown in renowned…
Rune Eraker (f.1961) har i mer enn 25 år arbeidet som uavhengig dokumentarfotograf. Han har bak seg en rekke separatutstilinger (bl.a. Stenersenmuseet 2001, Trondheim Kunstmuseum 2006, Nobels Fredssenter 2009 og Sørlandets Kunstmuseum 2010) og publiseringer i inn og utland. Han har gitt ut flere fotobøker (bl.a.”Øyeblikk av Lys”, Aschehoug forlag 2001, ”Lukten av savn”, Wigestrand…
Dmitry Kostyukov (b. 1983, Russia) has covered current events and in-depth stories in Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia, including the conflict in South Ossetia in 2008 and the war in Afghanistan. Prior to going freelance in 2011, he worked as a staff photographer at Kommersant daily newspaper (2005-2007) and at Agence France-Presse (2008-2011).…
Henrik Saxgren (b. 1953), photographer and artist with a great production of books and exhibitions. He has published not less than ten books, among other Point of View (1996), Solomons House / Country without fathers (2000), War and Love (2006) Unintended Sculptures (2009) and the anthologies Verschwindende Landschafen (2008) and From where we stand (2010).…
Heidi Wexelsen Goksøyr is a Norwegian photographer. In the years following her debut in 1993, she established her position in Norwegian contemporary art with a unique visual language. Her work often relates to the basic elements, and most conspicuous is her fascination with water. During LIFF she will open an installation with her work from…
Corey Arnold is a fine art photographer based in Portland, Oregon. His work examines man’s relationship with the natural world including animals, food production, and environmental issues. Since 2002, he has photographed his life at sea working as a Bering Sea Crab fisherman and documented his summers captaining a sockeye salmon fishing boat in Alaska.…
