After the big fire

[Asle F]

at Lærdalsøyri. Where over 70 persons lost everything they owned.


Etter den store brannen by Asle Feten, on Flickr

[elsa hoffmann]

A picture that tells a thousand words.

[Asle F]

Thank you. I'm glad for that comment.
When I have been there myself, it can be very difficult to assess how a picture is seen by others, if it works at all.

[elsa hoffmann]

Asle - it is very much a journalistic / documentary photo for me. Which means it is suppose to tell a story - and for me it did.
So much is lost in a fire - and no photo can capture the full story ever. We can only try and photograph that which we see and which speaks to us personally.

[Asle F]

Thank again.

Actually I didn't see very much. I was there patroling as fireguard during a night some days after the fire. I came in the dusk and traveled home at dawn, before the daylight came. Because all the streetlights was gone in the fire, everything was dark, all light we had was from our headlights. It was a very special experience.