I got my first camera when I was 8. It was a Agfa Isola 6x6. I never stopped my quest for capturing meaning, beauty and connection with my lens. Highly critical of the onlooker perspective, I stayed away for several years until I regained my own voice. My works have been featured on magazine covers and exhibited in Norway.
"Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality, understood as recalcitrant, inaccessible; of making it stand still. One can't possess reality, one can possess (and be possessed by) images. To collect photographs is to collect the world." This distills the dual nature of photography: it captures moments with a sense of permanence while simultaneously amplifying their ephemerality. A photograph is both a tangible artifact and an emotional time machine, evoking nostalgia, longing, or joy while remaining inherently incomplete—silent witnesses to what was, and shadows of what can no longer be.
“In portraits, it’s often said that photographers reveal as much about themselves as they do about the subject, since they bring their assumptions, biases, and emotions into the act of capturing another person.”
Photography is also about being in the right place at the right time, but mostly it is about seing with the minds eye, or feeling what you have to say with your eyes.
Suddenly the sky lit up with a weird blue light. It went on for about half an hour. It was really strange - or weird - or scary even.
I started life as a photographer. As a child I would lie in bed watching the sun paint pictures of the trees and the curtains on my wall. When my mother showed me her photos I was captivated. Her Zeiss Ikon was a gift from the photographer Sturlason when she quit her job to have me. I still have, and cherish this camera that’s in perfect condition. The pictures are pin sharp and has an amazing 3D pop that make them stand out. Getting my first SLR was such a let-down as the lens was nowhere as capable as the Zeiss.
Paal Rasmussen
Fine Art Photography
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