Siggen Stinessen (b. 1942) can be regarded as a veteran in this field. He made his debut in 1975 and was part of Norway’s “Association of Free Photographers”, which fought for an independent fine art photography. He is best known for the landscapes that initially dominated his work but which have, for many years now, also included an increasing focus on houses and buildings, often in a panoramic setting. Stinessen has had a large number of exhibitions over the years and was the first photographer to receive the State’s guaranteed minimum wage for visual artists.
Geir M. Brungot is 20 years younger than Stinessen. He is equally at home in the same formal visual register of factual, unadorned and straight depictions of his subjects, inspired no doubt to some extent by his colleague, but perhaps most of all by the American photographer Lewis Baltz. Many of Brungot’s works feature only a section of the subject, the architectural details prominently portrayed as part of a carefully-composed aesthetic whole. Brungot has also had a number of exhibitions both at home and abroad and, in recent years, has resided mainly in Prague.
The catalogue text is written by Professor Řivind Storm Bjerke.
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