Bio

Bio

Nina Strand is an artist and the founder of Objektiv Press. Working across image and text, she uses the book as her primary exhibition space. She holds a BA in project management and an MA in creative writing.

Strand’s work is held in the collections of the National Museum of Norway, the Norwegian National Museum of Photography, Kunst på Arbeidsplassen, and public libraries and institutions in Norway, as well as in private collections. Her publications include The Notes Series (Notes Press), Dr. Strand (Journal) and Current Condition (Journal), alongside numerous zines, posters and photo-text works.

She is a regular contributor of essays on photography to Norwegian and international publications and has curated exhibitions for festivals internationally, most recently Double for Les Rencontres d’Arles. Strand currently holds a work grant from Arts Council Norway. She lives and works between Norway and France.

Dr Strand, Journal, 2015.

Publications

2025

Notes on Paname, Notes Press

Double: Carol Newhouse & Carmen Winant, Objektiv Press

Notes on Presence, Notes Press

2023

Studio Situations, self-published

Søsterskap, Objektiv Press

Current Condition, Journal

2021

Visual Wanderings, Objektiv Press

From Notes on Presence, 2025.

From Current Condition, 2023.

2020

Perpetual Photographs, Objektiv Press

STAFETT III, Objektiv Press

2019

STAFETT II, Objektiv Press

Residency (working title), self-published

2017

STAFETT, launch and exhibition, Fotogalleriet, Oslo

2016

Arbeid, fanzine, self-published

Age vs Beauty, fanzine, self-published

Kunstnerlønn, fanzine, self-published

2015

Dr. Strand, photobook, Journal

(Kvinnelig) Kunstner, fanzine, self-published

SOLO, fanzine, self-published

New View, fanzine, self-published

2014

Trollet som ikke ville være troll, children's fanzine, self-published

Backstage, fanzine, self-published

2013

Det Fiktive Forhold, fanzine, self-published

2010

Nykter, documentary novel, Akademisk Publisering

Objektiv #1 (2 issues per year, final issue 2019)

2008

Hvordan synes du selv det går?, photobook, Journal

2006

Militær, Scandinavian art fanzine (2 issues per year, final issue 2009)

From So, How Do You Think You’re Doing?, 2008

2004

Gutta på Gølvet, short prose, Cappelen

Objektiv Press essays, 2020-2025.

Exhibitions

2025

Notes on Presence, Au Passage, Paris

2023

Second Spring, Cometa, Paris

Index, Fotobokfestival Oslo (former Munch Museum)

2018

Thumbing the Library, Fotogalleriet, Oslo

2016

Dr Strand, Oslo S

2015

Dr Strand, TM51 Gallery

Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus

2013

Fiktioner, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen

2012

Jeg husker dig og M.A.N, In The Gallery, Copenhagen

2011

Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

2008

In My Blue Blue Blue Jeans, Kontorprojects, Copenhagen

2007

Grethes børnebørn, Rumkammerat, Copenhagen

Sange fra Kælderen, Galleri Projekt, Copenhagen

Hvordan synes du selv det går, Galleri Projekt, Copenhagen

2006

I skumringen, Galleri Larm, Copenhagen

Double Carol Newhouse & Carmen Winant, Les Rencontres d’Arles, 2025.

Curatorial Work

2025

Double: Carol Newhouse & Carmen Winant, Les Rencontres d'Arles2023

Søsterskap, Les Rencontres d'Arles (with Elina Heikka, Charlotte Præstegaard Schwartz, Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir, Anna Tellgren & Susanne Østby Sæther)

2022

Objektiv Editions: Books, Prints & Videotape, Paris

2021

TRUST, f/stop photography festival, Leipzig (with Susan Bright)

Objektiv Editions: Books, Prints & Videotape, Kunstnernes Hus

2020

Le Book Club, Fotogalleriet, Oslo (with Anna Planas, Pierre Horquet & Antonio Cataldo)

2017

Subjektiv, Malmö Konsthall, Kunstnernes Hus (with Lucas Blalock, Ida Kierulf, Brian Sholis & Susanne Østby Sæther)