A face that cannot be hidden 2025
«Facial tattoos are social suicide. I joke that I got mine to make sure I’d never have to take a shitty job again. To me, tattoos are like rock’n’roll: a rebellion against being told how to live. I have no problem wearing this for the rest of my life. Everything you do should be a statement. You have to own your life and be authentic. People still see tattoos as something criminal, but that’s bullshit. Hitler didn’t have tattoos. Neither Trump. Or Breivik.»
We don't say dad anymore 2024
At age 13, she started to feel uncomfortable as a boy and began yearning to be a girl. She knew about transgenderism as a phenomenon, but it was a subject of shame and ridicule in the media and in social circles alike.
While studying, she found a sweetheart and confided her secret. The two are still together, married, and have two daughters. For a years, she thought she just had to try to live with it. The discomfort or yearning grew neither weaker nor easier to bear over time. I her fourties she was able to start the gender affirmation process. The treatment ended up taking six years.
A seemingly traditional family consisting of a mother, father and two children was transformed into a family with two children and two mothers.
The Norwegian library 2017
Over the last 30 years, the number of public libraries has been halved. In tight municipal budgets they are often abandoned in favor of urgent needs such as nursing homes and kindergartens, and when Internet and digital technology becomes more widespread in daily life, the libraries struggle to show that they are still relevant.
A short story on grassroots democracy 2019
The fishermen's prayer house chapel has been there for the longest time, the Sports Team has the most members, the Træna Festival has the largest turnover. Norway's smallest municipality with its 15 square kilometers, has about 456 inhabitants (of which about 400 in Husøy and 55 in Selvær), has about 34 clubs and associations, of which 24 are officially registered. What all Træna's clubs and associations have in common is that they contribute to identity and unity on the island.
Dreams of a democracy 2015
Myanmar is changing. 8 November 2015 the people of Myanmar went to the polls for what was hoped to be the first free and fair elections in 25 years after more than 50 years of military dictatorship and harrowing civil wars. The people portrayed in this exhibition are all engaged in making a difference in their communities and for the country. Some of them show fearless and great leadership; some are battling the quiet struggles of everyday life.
