Just got a phone call from the National Library of Norway that one of my pictures is to be included in the National Image Collection and hence will be saved for all eternity along with other national treasures. Cool ...
They pulled the image from a recent picture exhibition of Norwegian Jazz musicians here in Oslo. Besides being reproduced in a super posh luxury book, it'll also go bit by bit into the National Archive and stay there forever.
When the curator of the Exhibition contacted me early this year, I had no idea of this later outcome. He was interested in a series of b/w promotional pictures of female artists Tine Asmundsen and Elizabeth Walker that I had shot many years ago on assignment for the recording company ECM. So we're talking stone age *film* technology here.
I'll browse my digital archive for more pictures from that promotional series, but for now, my "archived for ever" image has to do . Not only was I paid handsomely, the picture has been booked for another exhibition this autumn as well. A strange twist of fate to associate a nature photographer with jazz music, a music genre I at best have a lukewarm appreciation of
(Nikon F5, 85/1.4 AIS)
