Title: Country.rock
Description: The photobook 'Country.Rock' by Morten Andersen is the result of multiple trips to Northern Norway over a period of 3-4 years. The book depicts the harsh climate and the vast untouched terrain of the north, juxtaposed against the region's small, remote communities. Andersen takes an unconventional approach to documentary photography, situating the images in 'Country.Rock' against the backdrop of a sci-fi inspired, post-apocalyptic narrative. In Andersen's imagined future, a catastrophic event has made Europe's urban population centres uninhabitable. Survivors - most of them young - have migrated north, forging new communities and developing new ways of living. The north is conceived as a refuge from the political and social failures of the past; a blank slate for building a radical, post-capitalist future.
Subjects: Artistic Photography, Landscape photography, Documentary photography, Pictorial works
Places: Northern Norway
People: Morten Andersen (1965-)