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Rare, immersive and genuinely one of a kind, this limited 2026 exhibition running from March to October brings two sharply contrasting photographic voices into dialogue with one of Europe’s most photogenic and least compromised landscapes.
A fishing village shaped by cod, storms and centuries of weathered pragmatism becomes a temporary cathedral for contemporary photography. The collaboration between Fotografiska and Nusfjord Village & Resort is not a conventional pop-up. It unfolds slowly, stretched across Arctic light, salt air and time, allowing the work and the place to shape one another.
As Bárbara García, Chief Executive Officer of Fotografiska, puts it, photography should travel as far as our curiosity does. The natural Arctic beauty of Lofoten is as far from the white walls of a gallery as you can get.
Photographer Rinko Kawauchi arrives with a practice built on attentiveness rather than assertion. Her photographs are assembled from fleeting moments and peripheral gestures that might otherwise pass unnoticed. Light behaves gently in her work, time feels elastic and nature becomes atmosphere rather than subject. In Lofoten, this sensibility finds an intuitive rhythm, as weather alters perception and stillness carries unexpected weight. The Arctic does not overwhelm her images; it extends them.
Elizaveta Porodina approaches from the opposite direction. Her portraits are cinematic, psychologically charged and unapologetically constructed, with colour pushed, identity questioned and beauty allowed to fracture. Against the stripped-back geometry of the Arctic landscape, her work gains tension and clarity, the surrounding environment amplifying its theatrical edge rather than competing with it.
Together, the pairing feels deliberate and unresolved, one photographer leaning toward intimacy, the other toward spectacle, while the landscape holds both in balance.
Founded in Stockholm in 2010, Fotografiska has consistently resisted behaving like a conventional museum. It treats photography as a living language rather than a static archive, favouring movement, relevance and context over permanence. Its spaces in Stockholm, Berlin, Tallinn and Shanghai operate as cultural meeting points rather than quiet containers. With Oslo on the horizon, this Arctic chapter feels instinctive rather than strategic. Images belong in the world, exposed to friction, weather and conversation.
As Caroline Krefting, owner and conservationist pioneer of hotel Nusfjord Village & Resort, reflects, it was the contrasts that first defined the collaboration: the rawness of nature meeting the refinement of art, and the silence of the mountains carrying the pulse of human creativity. What began as a shared vision now unfolds across the village as lived experience rather than staged event.
From 20 March to October 2026, photography is woven through Nusfjord rather than confined to a single gallery space. Images inhabit the traditional rorbuer buildings, coastal paths and working buildings shaped by salt, wind and use. The Arctic light reshapes everything by the hour, with snow reducing scenes to their essentials, fog thickening the narrative and silence quietly carrying the weight. What visitors encounter in early spring will read differently by late summer, as seasons shift and perception follows.
An intimate opening gathering and a Fotografiska x Nusfjord Weekend in April bring together photography, conversation and gastronomy shaped by place and season. The deeper luxury, however, lies in duration, returning under different skies and allowing the work to change alongside the landscape until images are absorbed rather than consumed.
This is an exhibition for those who chase light rather than landmarks. For travellers who understand that nature edits art as much as curators do. For anyone who believes photography feels more alive when the environment has a voice. Head north, stay longer than planned and let Lofoten do the rest.
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