This exhibition features 27 artists who have participated as artists or organizersin the Nordic Analog Network (NAN) residency program from 2022 to 2024. Thenetwork connects 10 analog photography darkrooms across the Nordic countries tofoster artistic exchange, mobility, and the transmission of tactile,craft-based knowledge. Supporting artists working with analog methods theyoffer Artist residencies in darkrooms across Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark,and Iceland.
The current trend that stands out in theinternational, and is also reflected in the Nordic Analog
photography scene is a focus on the personal experience and connection tooneself and the world
around, or the inside and outside landscape if you will.
The landscape is not empty or merely a backdrop, but it has inhabitants:people, animals, plants, or
even the landscape itself can be understood as a “residence,” a home for life.This exhibition
explores ecological coexistence and the agency of nature, connections to selfand the world around,
taking in the landscape both inside and outside of the photographer.
The artists engage deeply with nature and environmental awareness. Many of theworks investigate
the relationship between humans and the natural world, examining soil, water,plants, animals,
climate change, and human impact on the environment. A multispecies perspectiveis present
throughout, highlighting non-human agencies. Nature is not merely a subject butan active
participant or collaborator in the artistic process, including in the materialelements of photography
and darkroom practices such as light and silver.
The exhibition shows the material and processual nature of photography. Theworks emphasize
slowness, chance, and the tactile qualities of analog methods such as silvermirror effects, camera
obscura, lumen prints, and plant-based developers. Here, photography is notjust a means of
representation but a lived, sensory process through which the world isexperienced and interpreted.
The landscape is presented not as a fleeting image but a constantly active,living space: the
“memory” of the landscape. It serves both as an object of study and as artisticmaterial. The artists’
processes resemble fieldwork and observation, combining visual and textualdocumentation with
personal experiences and reflections, creating a layered exploration of placeand its meanings.
Artistsin the exhibition:
Finland: AnssiRuuska, Jenni Toivonen, Juliana Irene Smith, Katri Lassila, Iina Gröhn, Natlia
Kopkina, Patrick Kuoppamaki, Selina Oakes, Sirja Moberg, Toivo Heinimaki.
Denmark:Andreas Olesen, Emma Harris, Johan Buch, Jon Bjarni, Maia Torp Neergaard, Mai
Keldsen.
Iceland:Hallgerdur Hallgrimsdottir & Veronika Geiger
Norway: Cornelia Stefanescu, Grethe Irene Einarsen, Henrik Follesø Egeland,Julie Karine Schie Olsen, Lexy L Xiao, Stig M Weston.
Sweden: Ingrid Jacobsen, Oskar Söderman, Vanni Jung Stahle
15.November at 13:00 - Exhibition opening & Panel talk
Photographer and founder of Finnish Darkroom Association Katri Krohn Lassila inconversation (in English) with exhibiting artists, Grethe Einarsen, MaiKeldsen, Hallgerdur
Hallgrimsdottir & Veronika Geiger and Vanni Jung Ståhle.
Panel Talk: Process & Place - ThePersonal Landscape in Analog Practice
Join us for a conversation with five of theexhibiting artists as they explore the intersection of process-driven practice,analog techniques, and personal vision in contemporary landscape photography.This panel will delve into how traditional methods like film and darkroom workshape not only the final image but the artist’s relationship to the landscapeitself—redefining both subject and process in a digital age.
16.November at 14:00 – 16:00 Guided tour
The exhibiting photographers who are visiting will walk & talk about theirown work (in English)
With: Andreas Olesen, Johan Buch, Jón BjarniHjartarson, Ingrid Jacobsen, Lexy Liangzi Xiao, Maia Torp Nergaard, OskarSöderman, Sirja Moberg, Vanni Jung Stahle
29.November at 13:00 – Panel talk
Photographer and founder of CYAN studio Stig Marlon Weston in conversation withExhibiting Artists and guests (TBA)
Panel Talk: Sustainable Photography – a newphotographic practice
The Networks´s Open Call for artistsresidencies will for 2026-27 have the theme of sustainable photography. This isa type of analog photographic practice that is spreading in Europe and we willhelp bring to the Nordic region. Join us for a conversation with a analogpractitioners who are exploring these ideas and how they shape both theirapproach and the final artworks, in opposition to the standards of a digitalworkflow.
29.November at 13:00-15:00 Guided tour
The exhibiting photographers who are in Oslo will walk & talk about theirown work (in Norwegian)
With: Cornelia Stefaenscu, Emma Harris, Henrik Follesø Egeland, Julie KarineSchie Olsen, Patrick Kuoppamäki, Stig Marlon Weston
The exhibition is curated by Natalia Kopkina - Finnish Darkroom Association(Helsinki), and Stig
Marlon Weston – CYAN studio (Oslo).
The Nordic Analog Network has been supportedby Nordic Culture Point, Nordisk Kulturfond,
Norsk-Finsk Kulturfond, Kulturrådet and Svenska Kulturfonden.
The exhibition “Resident Landscape” is supported by Norsk Fotografisk Fond,Oslo Kommune
Kulturetaten and Fond for dansk-norsk Samarbeid.
www.nordicanalognetwork.com
www.cyanstudio.no
