KAROLINE HJORTH

Photographer, artist and author Karoline Hjorth completed BA Photographic Arts and MA International Journalism at The University of Westminster (London) in 2009 and published her first book «The Mormon Monologues» (Publishing Press) in 2011. The same year she started collaborating with Finnish artist Riitta Ikonen , which has resulted in a series of projects, publications and exhibitions, including «Eyes as Big as Plates» (2011-) and «The Lumber Room» (2013) and «Time is a ship that never casts anchor» (2014-18). The book «Eyes as Big as Plates» (Forlaget Press 2017) was nominated for the Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award and won Gold for Best Cover in the Norwegian Most Beautiful Books of the Year.

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HELGE SKODVIN

Helge Skodvin is a photographer based in Bergen. He is an educated carpenter, but since he put down the hammer he has been working as a photographer for magazines, newspapers, companies and publishers. He has published three photo books (and several more on the way). His book «240 Landscape» was named the best photo book by Martin Parr in 2015. Skodvin works in the genre of documentary photography, with a strong visual voice and personal approach.

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MICHAEL SØNDERGAARD

Søndergaards work is concerned with ideas of expressing and defining masculinity and identity. He produces ominously dark and eloquently beautiful portraits of fragile yet powerful subjects. His work is informed by a personal and academic interest in religious studies, after studying religious science (University of Copenhagen), which is the basis for his debut series RITE (2018).

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Nordic Light Festival of Photography is moving to the autumn and this years festival is 21.–25. of October 2020. To get your tickets, check out Tikkio now! We are adapting to the corona-situation and planning the festival as normal!

Last years theme at Nordic Light was Nordic Now! and we will continue to focus on young Nordic photography. But we will also invite established photographers that represent both the Nordic and international photography scene, and we already have exciting news that we will share in the near future. The artist driven publication Uncertain States Scandinavia is now part of the program committee and will present the young Scandinavian program in a special issue of their magazine, and through exhibitions and talks throughout the festival!