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I haven’t been updating my blog in a while. Lazyness, being busy, moving between different parts of Norway, and also internally in Oslo could be the reason. Also, I haven’t been sure what to blog about, really. Seeing my former classmates doing all kinds of regular photojournalism, while I keep taking pictures of pipelines and CEOs, didn’t really make me want to publish what I was doing. But that’s all going to change. Just like all other mediocre blogs, I now promise to start updating again.

First: a picture!

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My first exposure: from the metro system of Oslo.

But first, let me tell you where photojournalism brought me since last time, that was the Pstereo festival, august 2011. After finishing my summer job at Adresseavisen, I moved back to Oslo, Tøyen, to be more specific. I managed to get a job. As a press photographer /photojournalist in Norway, that is really kind of hard. Most newspapers and magazines doesen’t hire photographers, except for the occacional freelancer, and I guess for a newspaper to start hiring photographers, some of their already-employed photo dudes have to die or become 90 years old or something. So I must admit I feel a bit lucky with work every week, and regular salary. I’ve been in that game now since september, and my contract ends in june, so I’m trying to get it extended. The magazine is Teknisk Ukeblad, or in Technology Weekly in english. I’ll present it thoroughly later. In the meantime, I’ll post some of the first pictures I took at my new job:

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From a huge rescue exercise in the Oslo fjord, where all the nordic countries participated.

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My colleagues during the morning meeting

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From Longannet coal fired power station in Scotland

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March 20, 2012 | Categories: Teknisk Ukeblad | Tags: , , , , | Leave A Comment »

IPad, my new blog friend?

Just got my hands on the ipad2. So far it seems like we will be good friends, and now I’ve been able to update myblog through this strange device. Perhaps this will be an ass-kicker for me, and make me update this thing again – wiith pictures too!

March 19, 2012 | Categories: General | Leave A Comment »

Pstereo 2011!

The Tallest Man on Earth at the Pstereo-festival

Trondheims Pstereo-festival happened last weekend. It’s named after a “legendary” album by norwegian “legendary” rock band, the DumDum Boys. Headliners this year was artists and bands like Santigold, Death From Above 1979, The Roots, Lissie, Jamie Woon, Håkan Hellström and 22. It’s an extremely intense festival with three stages, and the two biggest are almost facing each other, with the crowd in the middle. So when one concert is finished on one stage, the next concert starts on the other stage. So as a photographer, you have a tight schedule. As usual, you can only take pictures during the three first songs (why!?!?!), and then you have to run back to the press room – send your images to the web editors in you newspaper, and then run back to be able to reach the first three songs for the next band. I was doing this for many hours last saturday – including making a small story about festival fashion and other things. Here’s Pstereo last saturday.

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August 25, 2011 | Categories: Adressaposter | 1 Comment »

07/22 – Never again!

200.000 people gathered outside the city hall of Oslo last night. Originally, there was a plan for a demonstration, but there was too many people to walk along the streets, so we just stood at one place. In Norway, people are mourning. They are sad, angry, shocked and in disbelief. But our will can not be broken by one right-wing extremist. As prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said: – We will retaliate with more democracy, more openness and with love. One of the young people – who survived the Utøya massacre, was cited on CNN saying “If one man can show that much hate, think of how much love all of us are able to show”.

These are pictures from the memorial demonstration yesterday:

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July 26, 2011 | Categories: General | 1 Comment »

Random stuff

Did a lot of random stuff some nights ago. I was working the late shift for a week or two, and that’s probably when those weird jobs pop up. For example: a hundred somalis were celebrating their national holiday – I guess it’s their independence day or something. I had to cover that. At first, I was thinking; do they really have anything at all to celebrate? I mean, their country is basically non-existing! It is roughly divided in 2-3 parts, the country as a whole haven’t had a central government since 1991 – and that regime wasn’t something to brag about. They have had a civil war since 1991 – and before that (between 1977 and 1978), their country is in a constant state of upheaval and now millions of people are becoming refugees after a severe drought hit the country hard. They are also known for pirates, extremely militant islamists, female circumcision, poverty and violence. Wow. Well, these guys were happy for their country anyway, and showed no signs of what I just mentioned.

Somalis in Norway celebrate their independence day

Somalis in Norway celebrate their independence day

Sunny camping!

Møre og Romsdal county (fylke) is, in addition to an industry  - and fishing-based economy, also heavily relying on tourism. Trollstigen and Geiranger are to major tourist attractions, and it is the scenery and nature that is the big treat for tourists. But the weather has been horrible the last couple of weeks. So horrible that the tourists are not coming. On a wednesday night I was told to go to Valldal to take pictures at a camping site that was struggling because the bad weather kept the tourists from coming. So I had to get in the car, drive 200 km just to get a picture of a guy in the sun. Fortunately, this camping site was placed so that the sun was still up when I arrived, despite being placed in a deep valley with tall mountains on both sides.

July 18, 2011 | Categories: Sunnmørsposten | Leave A Comment »

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