Russeprinsesse 1903
I’ve always been drawn to old photographs—their softness, their scratches, the way time edits them into something more than documentation. They feel like messages from a world that’s either gone or never quite existed in the way we imagine it. You sense a context you can’t fully enter, and that distance becomes part of the image’s charge.
Russeprinsesse (1903) begins with the opposite of decay: a carefully staged studio portrait made in Oslo in 1903 by a commercial photographer. The sitter is placed before a painted forest backdrop—nature, meticulously manufactured—an early reminder that photography has always been as much about desire as about truth.
The original vintage print (approx. 8 × 15 cm), provided by Oslo Katedralskole, was digitised and reprinted in black and white at the work’s final dimensions. From there, the image is pushed into a second life through what I call a “reverse analog developing process”: colour is introduced back into the monochrome photograph by hand, as a physical transformation rather than a digital effect. The result sits somewhere between document and apparition—history, gently re-imagined.
The price includes 5% art tax.
This piece is unique (1/1)
This is a one-off. There isn’t another copy, and there won’t be.
If you’re here for something that holds up over time — visually and conceptually — you’re in the right place. This work comes from a practice built across many years and many contexts: from independent local scenes to major institutions.
Unique works are the ones people regret not buying — not because they’re “better”, but because hesitation has consequences: you can’t come back later and find the same piece waiting for you.
It comes with the cleanest provenance possible — directly from the studio.
And hey! if you’re unsure about size: send me a wall photo with measurements and I’ll tell you what will actually work.
kr 24900,00
59 cm (length) x 85 cm (height) x 1,5 cm (width)
