Christian Houge is an artist and photographer living in Oslo. His photographs explore the human condition as realized trough and influenced by nature. At LIFF he will present his latest project – «Shadow Within» – at a pop-up exhibition. Houge invites us to contemplate the raw nature and purity that the wolf represents, and how…
Hanne Johnsen is a photographer based in Tromsø. Her work has been dedicated to children and youth growing up under different social conditions. Hanne Johnsen obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2003, and she works in a documentary tradition with social issues. At LIFF she will present a…
Karl Henrik Edlund is a young finish photographer, graduated from Lofoten folkehøgskole in Norway and Nordens fotoskola in Biskops-Arnö in Sweden. He is currently based in St. Petersburg. During LIFF 2014 he will present his project Yesterday Place – an on-going project he has been working on since 2009. The portfolio consists of a mix…
Jan Pohribny is a Czech photographer and artist living and working in Prague. His photography mainly deals with nature and landscape, but allways with a personal interpretation. Jan Pohribny often uses the technique of light painting in the nature, and thereby creates new personal and emotional landscapes. He is allways aware of the relations between…
Marianne Bjørnmyr is a Norwegian artist, living and working in London, where she received her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2012. Marianne Bjørnmyrs photographic practice is concerned around our perception of the photograph’s approach to reality; through her research she explores the phenomena of myth, and the photograph’s role in conveying objects…
Eivind Natvig is an award winning norwegian photojournalist with years spent traveling the world telling stories with his camera. For the past three years he has shifted toward documenting his native Norway trough the project “You Are Here Now”. In an effort to reinvent his photography and come to terms with the elusive notion of…
Marcus Bleasdale is one of the worlds leading documentary photographers. He is dedicated to covering issues underreported and forgotten by today’s media. Marcus is assigned to the agency VII, and his work has been published in major magazines world wide. In 2009-2011 Bleasdale worked in the Lofoten Islands on a story about the coastal whalers…
Evgenia Arbugaeva is the 2013 winner of the Leica Oscar Barnack Award for her project on her native town Tiksi on the arctic coast of Siberia. Evgenia Arbugaeva graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York in 2009. Since then she has worked as a freelance photographer, traveling between New York and Russia. In 2013…
Damian Heinisch received his Master in Photography at Folgwangschoole in Essen, Germany. His work has earned him several national and international prizes, and he has received grants for different photography and film projects. His work has been exhibitted in museums in Hamburg, Gera and Oslo, and in Guggenheim Museum in New York. Damian Heinisch lives in…
Trond Kjetil Holst is a pinhole photographer and high school teacher born in Honningsvåg, North Cape. He works as teacher at Bardufoss Høgtun Videregående Skole, where he teaches media production classes. He has been photographing since his early childhood, and began making pinhole cameras more than 30 years ago, when he lived in Kabelvåg. This…
