Rune Johansen has had an exhibition at Galleri 21 in Malmö during March. I thought the pictures interesting. The style of these pictures of rural people and milieux in northern Norway were documentary and left spaces for the onlooker to fill in, with stories and so on. For me, living an urban academic middle-class lifestyle, the pictures gave me almost an anthropological experience. Isn’t that one of the points about photography (or art in general), to give insights into other ways of living, thinking, behaving?
Something in the pictures reminded me of another Scandinavian photographer, Anders Kristensson and his exhibition Spår av en befolkning (”Traces of a population”).
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