Dry Country
Terrain Quarterly · Landscape · 2022 · Frames 9
The opposite of home: six weeks of sand, sandstone, and salt, photographed for Terrain Quarterly. Most frames were made in the hour after sunrise.
I wanted to see if the way I work at home would hold in a place that is its opposite.
Terrain Quarterly sent me south for an issue about dry places. I asked for six weeks instead of two and slept in the car for most of them.
The light in the desert is hard for about ten hours a day. The good part is short: the hour after sunrise and the half hour before dark. In between I read, slept in the shade, and drove to the next place.
The salt flat was the last stop. A storm came in over the mountains and I had about five minutes before the rain. It was the only rain in six weeks.
“Halvorsen brings northern patience to a southern landscape, and the dunes finally get the slow look they deserve.”
- Camera
- Full-frame mirrorless
- Lenses
- 24 to 70 mm, 70 to 200 mm
- Place
- Deserts of the south
- Made
- Six weeks, spring 2022
- Hottest day
- 44 °C, in the shade of the car
- Print sizes
- 30 × 40, 50 × 70, 70 × 100 cm
- Paper
- Cotton rag, 310 gsm, matte
- Edition
- 20 of each size