Close to Home – Eight Birds

It’s a common frustration ­- even a complaint – from photographers that the place they live in is not visually interesting, at least not interesting enough to build up a comprehensive body of  work. It’s a frustration I share myself, and for me the solution has always been to travel to more interesting and photogenic places.

Some photographers though are lucky enough to live somewhere with a wealth of potential subject matter close by. Marius Rustad is one of them. He lives in Norway, and his project Close to Home resulted in a series of beautiful black and white prints taken close to where he lives.

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Cat Vinton won the 2007 Travel Photographer of the Year Competition with her amazing photos of the nomadic tribes the Sami and the Mongols in Norway and Mongolia. Her interest in foreign cultures started when she spent the first two years of her photography career in Laos, before moving to London. I asked her about Laos and her photographic projects ‘Nomadic Souls’ and ‘Red Shoes’.

Norway

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