The room
From $3,800- A morning or an afternoon, one room
- Eighty finished photographs
- An online set for two years
- A license at full size
The shape of the room, and the hour it is best.
A studio of one, in Bergen.
Halvor Lunde began in the kitchens of Bergen, photographing cooks at the pass in the hour 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.
The work is slow on purpose. A room is photographed in the light it already has, at the hour it is best, and the people who keep it are in the pictures because they are in the room. Nothing is brought in and nothing is moved that would not be moved by the end of the day.
A shoot is a day, sometimes two; a hotel is usually three. The pictures come back within a month, and Halvor answers every email himself.
Photographs in Nordic Rooms, The Fjord Table, Hotel Ledger and Bergen Bord.
- Sectors
- Hotels, restaurants and houses, and the people who keep them. Interiors, architecture and hospitality, in Bergen and wherever the rooms are.
- On the day
- Stills throughout; short film and a walkthrough pass on request. A house is a day, a restaurant a day or two, a hotel usually three.
- Delivered
- A set of finished photographs at full size, sized for print and for the web, with a first look inside the week and the finished set inside a month.
- Prints
- Prints, frames and bound sets made from the same files, at trade prices for a year.
- Rights
- Copyright stays with the studio; every commission carries a license at full size for the uses agreed before the days.
- Term
- Two years online by default, extendable at any time, and press use included while the term runs.
- Credits
- Architects, designers and stylists are credited wherever the pictures run, in the metadata and in the delivery note.
- Exclusivity
- Available by sector and by territory, for a fixed term, priced with the commission.
The house
From $5,600- A day, opening to closing
- Two hundred finished photographs
- An online set for two years
- The garden and the outbuildings walked too
A house or a restaurant, and the rooms around it.
The hotel
From $8,200- Two or three days of photographing
- Everything in The house
- A bound set of the best forty frames
- Two further sets for the floors
The rooms, the kitchens, the people who keep them.
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Write and say where the rooms are, and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit for them.
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We walk the rooms through on a call, and agree the hours with the best light in them.
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I photograph from the inside: the shape of the room first, then closer for what gives it scale.
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A first look within the week, the finished set inside a month, and prints after.
How far ahead should we book?
Most hotels plan the photography a season or more ahead. If your rooms are sooner, write anyway — something often opens.
Do you travel?
Yes. Bergen is home, and a handful of rooms further away each year. Travel within Norway is included in every commission.
Can we add rooms or a second visit?
Rooms are added by the room, and a second visit joins from The house up. Both are settled before the days, never on them.
What if the weather turns?
Then the rooms close in and the lamps come on. Some of the best frames are made against the glass in the rain.
He was in the kitchen for two days and the cooks stopped seeing him by the first lunch.
Sigrid
We asked for the rooms and got the house: the dog on the stairs, the light on the landing at seven.
Anders
For a hotel, a restaurant or a house, write and say where it is.
Write to Halvor