MITT LAND / MY LAND - STANDARD EDITION

MITT LAND / MY LAND is a journey through the northern part of Norway.
Its not a geography-lesson, but rather an introduction to some of my favourite locations in this wild, serene, dramatic and poetic part of our country. I have roamed these landscapes since I was a child and my father brought me to the remotest and most barren parts of Finnmark or he took me fishing in nearby lakes and rivers.
The Arctic light, seasons, the seaside or the mountains, it’s all a part of my identity and what I want to share with you.
The book has a few small texts in which I try to convey parts of my relationship to the landscape, and in this case, the North. I have worked with the idea of making this collection of images from different perspectives.
One would be to share this untouched landscape with others.
Another would be the pure joy of transforming an experience that I have, to an image that somehow represents an expression of that emotional moment when I pushed the shutter. What makes you think “yes, there it is”? Somehow it becomes an inner and outer journey at the same time.

HANS STRAND in his foreword:
….The images in the book are the result of an intimate relationship with the landscapes, both great and small. He takes us out in winter storms where the snow punishes those who dare to venture outdoors, to the return of daylight after the Arctic winter night, and to beaches where winter storms have left their calling cards in the form of washed up seaweed. His images are presented in a pleasing mix, like a box of chocolates with delicious pralines. The book is blissfully free from the cliché motifs we are fed daily on social media. Instead, it is Trym’s frame of mind and thoughts that materialise in the form of photographs….

Keith Grant in his afterword:
… The North of Norway has no greater advocate of its elemental beauty and indeed extra-terrestrial mystery today then Trym Ivar Bergsmo who’s photography meets the highest level of achievement such a book merits. But in many instances the examples of his work far surpasses reaching a level of achievement and becomes without any doubt an art of the highest order. In some of his imagery the mood, mass and spatial accuracy becomes almost para-normal…