From Folder to Frame ( it´s about time )

Yesterday turned into one of those days that feels simple on paper, but heavy in reality.

I had to pick up a package from Stavanger Foto, then make my way all the way down to Kim’s place in Son. That meant a train, another train, and finally a bus. All of it just to deliver the prints for our upcoming exhibition, a three-week show in Son.

A lot of planning has gone into this. And a lot of quiet stress. We still didn’t have the frames. Yesterday was the very last chance to get the photos into them. Today is mounting day. That moment where everything we’ve been working toward suddenly becomes real.

Printing photos is always nerve-wracking. It’s the small details that are easy to overlook. Did I set the size correctly? Did I miss anything? Seeing your work outside of the screen, beyond the hard drive, framed and under real light—this feeling is surreal.

In my case, many of these images are from Hong Kong. Photos I took eight or nine years ago. Moments from a life that feels both distant and very close at the same time. Seeing them printed, ready for a gallery wall, hit me harder than I expected. There’s a lot of memory baked into those frames.

For years, those photos have lived quietly on Google Drive. Just folders. Just filenames. Now they finally get to exist properly. To be seen. To be shared. To breathe outside a digital graveyard.

Huge thanks to Stavanger Foto for the prints, and thank you so much to Elite Foto at Strømmen Storsenter for helping me out with the frames. They look incredible. Truly. I cannot wait to show them to you.

Kim’s work is just as strong. He has pushed his analog images to the next level. Katinka has shot some seriously strong images. Some from the local surroundings, winter and summer, warm tones and cold tones, calm compositions and lived-in moments. It’s a beautiful balance.

And that’s where Photobreak really shines. Not one style. Not one mood. More like a bag of mixed candy. You don’t know exactly what you’ll get, but somehow it all belongs together.

I filmed the journey yesterday, the first leg of the trip. Today I’ll film the mounting. The nervous hands. The small adjustments. The moment when the wall finally makes sense.

It’s stressful.
It’s emotional.
And it’s exactly why we do this.