Once every spring for the last six years the picturesque Norwegian coastal town Kristiansund turns into a photographer's paradise, with the world's top photographers meeting up to share their work, their experiences or simply to share a glass of wine and a pleasant ...

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The American portrait photographer Greg Gorman is world renowned for his portraits of Hollywood celebrities. His specialty is classic black-and-white photographs that leave the viewer full of wonder. During the past 40 years Greg has become one of the most sought after celebrity and ad...

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James Mollison was born in Kenya and grew up in England. He has studied art and design at Oxford Brookes University, and film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design. After graduation he moved to Italy in order to work at Benetton´s creative department, Fabrica. Today he...

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These five sections of pictures all fuse with each other. Yesterday is today. Today is tomorrow. Time is only and ever now. And as my friend, aaron siskind tells us, "photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured for ever...it re...

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Canadian Nathalie Daoust has shown a great interest for the most intimate and darkest sides of female sexuality throughout her career as a photographer. She plays with the dynamic between the private and the public, and uses experimentation and her own techniques to break new groun...

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Photographer Mary Ellen Mark is married to film director Martin Bell. The couple resides in Manhattan, New York. They are both coming to Nordic Light, the festival that they’ve heard so much about. Together they’ve been working on a project which is being released in...

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Peter Gerdehag has filmed and photographed nature in Sweden for over 40 years. He is drawn to things of rarity that are worthy of preservation, things of eye-catching beauty. In an age where people complain of life’s bustle and where our focus on money and economics is greater than ...

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Bruce’s love of photography started at the early age of seven when he got his first camera. This he used to photograph his neighbourhood in the suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. “Most boys of my age had a dog,” he says laughing, “I had a camera.”

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Robert Pledge is one of the truly great communicators within photography and possesses an enormous knowledge of photographic art and history. He is considered as a leading light and pioneer of photo journalism,

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It was actually a coincidence that led Haakon to choose photography. When he was studying child care in Trondheim, he acted as assistant on an advertising film shoot. During the shoot he got to know advertising photographer Geir Mogen, and this led to a period working as photographic a...

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Be sure not to miss this exquisite collection of photographs of major sights! Galleri Balder presents three key landscape photographers who worked in Norway during the last half of the 1800s. The collection covers both landscapes and pictures of everyday life, all tak...

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For the second time Pål Hermansen exhibits at Nordic Light International Festival of Photography in Kristiansund. He is a versatile artist who is always breaking new ground as a photographer.

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Kirsten Klein is one of Denmark’s most acclaimed photographers and possibly its best landscape photographer. When she was a young girl Kirsten moved from Copenhagen to a home in the countryside, 75 meters from the sea and two kilometres to the nearest neighbour. Her trips to and from...

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Farzana Wahidy is part of National Geographic’s All Roads Photography Program, which supports talented, self-taught photographers from around the world. She is the young photojournalist who portrays Afghan women’s lives to the outside world though a camera concealed in a burka.

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Stuart Franklin has to be considered one of Nordic Light’s most loyal friends. He has been a festival guest for the past two years. In 2009 he was a visiting lecturer. The following year he came as curator for the controversial photography exhibition Point of No Return. I...

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Ritva Kovalainen’s photographs are inspired by nature, stillness and light, and by poetry. She has an enormous passion for photography and experiences the world as full of visual moments. ”I enjoy observing the world around me, wherever I go. As a photographer nothing is really b...

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