Jonas Bendiksen

At a glance you could say that Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen has a more “traditional” approach to photography than the others featured here before.

But, sometimes, these things come up…

And that is exactly what draws and fascinates me s about his work: it is carried out in a frontier. He creates pieces which can be considered “good” or “correct” under the most traditional terms of photography (such as exposure, framing, color, light, etc) and, at the same time, presents some which are a bit more “challenging” and related to trends of the so-called contemporary photography (or those in which photographs themselves are the subjects).

What is even more striking is that he does it all in a meaningful way and within the scope of his own work, that is, it all seems to make a lot of sense so that when you see one of his images you almost “know” it really is his.

More Links

• His Profile at Magnum.
• A closer look at his book “Satellites“.
• “Abkhazia: A Vacation in a Non-Existent Country, 2005” gallery at Slate Magazine
• “The Ferghana Valley: The Troubled Heart of Asia” gallery at Moving Walls 8 by the Open Society Institute

rhwinter, January 25th, 2007
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