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Rooms, and the light that gets into them.

Halvor photographs hotels, restaurants and homes, and the people who keep them. Most of it is in Bergen. Some of it is wherever the rooms are.

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A hotel lobby, trees against the tall glass
Halvor

We are a studio of one. We began in the kitchens of Bergen, photographing cooks at the pass before the doors opened, and the rooms came after: the hotels the cooks worked in, the restaurants they went on to open, the houses they went home to. We work slowly, in the light a room already has, and we stay until the people in it forget the camera.

Each finished sequence moves between the architecture and the evidence of use: a wide frame for the room's shape, then closer views that give it scale. The edit is built to hold together rather than as a set of isolated highlights.

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A bath set into an open window over the hills at dusk
An olive courtyard in the last of the light
A white bedroom, the curtains open to the garden
A room with an arched window over the sea
A restaurant under arches, the lanterns lit for the evening
A house on a hillside at dusk, the valley below

A room is finished when the people in it have stopped noticing the camera.

Halvor Lunde
A kitchen open to the hills

Photographs in Nordic Rooms, The Fjord Table, Hotel Ledger and Bergen Bord.

Ways to work together

Three commissions, one way of photographing: a room, a house, a hotel. Each is photographed in the light it already has, at the hour it is best.

Commissions from $3,800.

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An arcade of arches over a pool at dusk
A kitchen with an arched window over the counter
The cooks at the pass before the doors open
A valley at dusk, seen from the terrace
A tall window in a lounge, trees outside
A white hall with the doors open to the garden
Kind words

He was in the kitchen for two days and the cooks stopped seeing him by the first lunch. The pictures are the restaurant as it is at four in the afternoon.

Sigrid

We asked for the rooms and got the house: the dog on the stairs, the light on the landing at seven. We have them on the wall now.

Anders
Three rooms
A garden pool between the trees
A garden pool, two morningsBergen
A white hall with the doors open to the garden
A white hall, the doors openBergen
A restaurant under tall windows and olive trees
The last table, the trees insideBergen
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For a hotel, a restaurant or a house, write and say where it is. Halvor answers himself.

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