Solargraphy in the Lofoten Islands

All works are now slowly being released

Each image is born from patience, light, and chemistry.
Inside a simple beer can, a sheet of photosensitive paper waits 
- sometimes for up to six months.

Using one of the most ancient photographic tools known to man 
— the pinhole camera, or camera obscura — 
I leave these handmade cameras exposed to the Arctic landscape, allowing time itself to inscribe the image.

The lines you see are painted by the sun as it moves across the sky.
 The darker gaps mark the cloudy days.

Other traces, stains, and irregularities are the result of water, moisture, and the surrounding environment, quietly interacting with the chemistry of the long-exposed paper.
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