A photographic journey documenting the Norwegian landscape and people through embracing nature and the outdoor way of life.
The concept and basis for the project comes from the Norwegian philosophy of Friluftsliv, an idea rooted deep in the Scandinavian history, this single word encompasses a culture that embrace the natural world.
Friluftsliv or ‘free air life’ is best described as a feeling of being empowered by the landscape, to emotionally connect with a space and to truly feel at one with the landscape. Mastering skills to survive in these harsh environments but never trying to conquer or beat nature, instead being a part of nature’s rhythms and cycles, living in total harmony with the wilderness.
The project started life with a fascination for the way we connect with space in the modern day, many of us rarely spend much time in the open spaces, on forest walks or just absorbing the landscapes around us. In this ever growing technological world we spend far too many hours at our desks or in our cars, never truly connecting with the world; trapped behind glass. The urban man has lost his past ability to experience the landscape as anything other than objective, disconnecting from feeling, only venturing out into the wild simply to have been there and nothing more. The modern man is unable to hear the warning cries in animals, read the sings in nature or find their way by the stars.
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