Eivind Natvig, Photographer

-The spectacular in nothing: This is another norway, not the traditional beauty of fjords and spring-images of blonde girls, but the beauty of daily life and dull realities. Something hard to define, it's an outsider's view, like window shopping. Frames stolen from the a movie about norway that's never been made. If you take a look and freeze it, there is a lot of beauty there. It's full of things so normal that they've become invisible to us -- as individuals. As a culture. But it's an insider's view too. An introvert take on the familiar. A foreigner's account of his own homeland. An exploration of the exotic within the mundane. It's all true, but like the place itself and the people who call it home, it's riddled with contradiction.

Although Elvind Natvig and I do not speak the same language, I feel like I know exactly what he means when I look at his photographs. He believes that everything is extraordinary and truly lives in the moment each time he clicks the shutter. He encourages the rest of us to do the same. How can you not after viewing his work?

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