SC 06 Featured series · Finished in 2023
Fog Season
The fir valley behind Ravnsund, photographed every October for eleven years. The series ends where it started, on the road up to the valley.
- Camera
- Full-frame mirrorless
- Lens
- 70 to 200 mm
- Place
- The fir valley above Ravnsund
- Made
- Every October, 2013 to 2023
- Exposure
- Mostly 1/15 s, from a tripod
- Print sizes
- 30 × 40, 50 × 70, 70 × 100 cm
I started photographing the fir valley in 2013, the autumn after I moved home. I did not know it would take eleven years.
Every October I walked up the same road before dawn and waited for the fog to come down off the slopes. Some years it came every morning. One year it did not come at all, and I went home with nothing.
The series is not really about the trees. It is about how fog changes what you can see, and how a place you think you know can turn strange in ten minutes.
In 2023 the prints were shown at the Ravnsund Kunsthall. In spring 2027 they travel to Kunsthall Vestby, in a group show with five other photographers.
The series 11 Octobers in one valley
The road was the first frame I made, in 2013, and the last one I printed. It took me ten years to see it.
- Mornings out
- 147
- Mornings with fog
- 58
- Frames kept
- 9
- Walk to the valley
- 40 minutes
- Place
- The fir valley behind Ravnsund
- Years
- 2013 to 2023
- Season
- October only
- Camera
- Full-frame mirrorless
- Lenses
- 35 mm and 70 to 200 mm
- Light
- Fog, before the sun
- Prints
- Cotton rag, editions of 20
- First shown
- Ravnsund Kunsthall, 2023
What went up the road.
Kit for an October morning-
Case 01
Camera
3 items- Full-frame mirrorless body Weather sealed, and it needs to be
- 35 mm prime For the wide frames
- 70 to 200 mm zoom For the layers of trees
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Case 02
Support
3 items- Light carbon tripod Forty minutes uphill
- Lens cloths Five. Fog is wet
- Rain cover Used more than the camera
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Case 03
Field
3 items- Headlamp The walk starts in the dark
- Wool layers Standing still is cold
- The October notebook Eleven years in one book
Fog Season on the wall.
Where the prints have hung-
Six photographers, one season
Group show, until 30 June
Kunsthall Vestby Vestby
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Fog Season, a talk
With prints on the tables
The Harbor Library Ravnsund
Past -
Fog Season, first showing
Nine prints, ten weeks
Ravnsund Kunsthall Ravnsund
Past