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About Teo.

Ravnsund, Norway · Since 2012

I am a landscape and nature photographer. I live on the coast of northern Norway, and I work slowly, on long series about single places.

A straight dirt road running between tall, dark pines into fog.

I grew up in Ravnsund, a fishing town of four thousand people on the coast of northern Norway, and I still live two streets from the harbor.

I started out photographing buildings for an architecture studio. It taught me patience, straight lines, and how to come back on a better day. In 2018 I spent my first winter in Iceland, and I have worked on landscapes ever since.

I work on one place at a time, for as long as it takes. Some series take a season. Fog Season took eleven years. I print everything myself, in a small studio above the old net loft on the harbor, and I sell the prints in small editions.

When I am not in the field, I take commissions for magazines and outdoor brands, and I run two small workshops on the coast each year.

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Fourteen years, in numbers.

2012 to 2026
Series
9
From one stairwell to three winters in Iceland.
Nights in a tent
312
Counted from the notebooks. Probably more.
Prints shipped
1840 +
Every one signed and numbered by hand.
Exhibitions
24
In galleries, libraries, and one ferry terminal.

Fourteen years on the road.

2012 to 2026 See every series

  1. 2012

    A first good camera

    Bought with a summer of wages from the fish plant. The first frames are of the harbor.

  2. 2015

    A white spiral staircase seen from below, curling into a tight center.

    Lysverk Architects

    Four years photographing buildings. Quiet Geometry comes from the days between jobs.

  3. 2018

    Blue and white icebergs floating in a dark lagoon under a heavy storm sky.

    The first winter in Iceland

    A one-week magazine job that turned into years of going back, and later into Black Sand.

  4. 2022

    A white salt flat cracked into shapes under a dark storm sky.

    Six weeks in the desert

    Dry Country, for Terrain Quarterly. The only rain came on the last day.

  5. 2023

    Dense evergreen trees coming out of thick gray fog on a mountain slope.

    Fog Season is finished

    Eleven Octobers in one valley, shown at the Ravnsund Kunsthall.

  6. 2025

    Low sun breaking over a sharp mountain ridge, with water shining in channels across black dunes.

    Black Sand, the book

    Forty-two plates, published by Northline Editions.

  7. 2026

    A single dried yellow rose with green leaves on a gray background.

    Herbarium

    A winter at the kitchen table, with dried flowers and one north window.

What goes in the pack.

Field kit for a winter week
  1. Case 01

    Cameras

    3 items
    • Medium format digital body 100 MP, for the prints
    • Full-frame mirrorless body Night and wildlife
    • 4×5 field camera On good days only
  2. Case 02

    Lenses

    3 items
    • Wide prime 20 mm f/1.8, for stars
    • Medium format primes 32, 64, and 110 mm
    • Long zoom 100 to 400 mm
  3. Case 03

    Support

    3 items
    • Carbon tripod With spiked feet for ice
    • ND and graduated filters Three of each
    • Lens heater strips Two, and a spare battery
  4. Case 04

    Field

    3 items
    • Headlamp with a red light Keeps night vision
    • Down jacket and spare gloves Always the spare gloves
    • Thermos and notebook Tea, and the tide times

Four frames, one select

Weather Coast · The north mole · 14:20
  • A dark blue wave rising under pink evening clouds.
    18 Swell building 1/1000 s · 400 mm
  • A huge wave breaking around a lighthouse at the end of a harbor wall.
    19 The wave breaks 1/1000 s · 400 mm
  • The inside of a curling blue wave, lit from behind.
    20 Spray, too late 1/1000 s · 400 mm
  • Dark sea stacks and a cliff in mist against an orange dusk sky.
    21 Calm again 1/500 s · 400 mm
Four frames from one afternoon, a few seconds apart. Frame 19 became Weather Coast, No. 3

How the black beach was made

Black Sand · No. 2 · South coast
Waves running up a black sand beach below misty sea cliffs and two rock stacks.
Medium format digital · 32 mm · 1/4 s · f/11 · ND 0.9

  1. 01 The two sea stacks

    I moved fifty meters along the beach until the stacks stood clear of the cliff, with sky between them.

  2. 02 A flat, gray sky

    I waited for cloud. A blue sky would have pulled the eye away from the shore.

  3. 03 The wave line

    A quarter of a second blurs the surf just enough. I made forty frames to get one clean line.

  4. 04 Wet black sand

    Low tide leaves a thin film of water that holds a little of the sky. Two hours later it was gone.

Prizes and shortlists.

  • Winner Book of the year Northern Light Book Prize 2025
  • Shortlist Black Sand The Open Horizon Awards 2025
  • Winner Landscape series Ravnsund Photo Prize 2023
  • Honorable mention Quiet Animals Fieldlight Wildlife Awards 2023

Publishers and clients I have worked with.

Books, magazines, and commissions · 2015 to 2026
  • Northline Editions
  • Fjellvind Journal
  • Terrain Quarterly
  • Mosslight Magazine
  • Skarv Outdoor Co.
  • Lysverk Architects
  • The Quiet Earth Review
  • Galleri Nordkant

From editors and clients.

Three of many

  • “Teo sent eleven huts instead of eight, and none of them had a hut in the picture. It was the best story we ran that year.”

    Petra Lunde Photo editor · Fjellvind Journal

  • “He asked for six weeks when we offered two. We said yes, and the issue sold out in a month.”

    Oskar Brandt Editor · Terrain Quarterly

  • “Working with Teo on Black Sand was slow in the best way. He sequenced the book three times before he was happy, and he was right each time.”

    Ada Rønning Publisher · Northline Editions
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