From the zine Studio Situations, 2023.
Nina Strand is a photographer, writer and founder of Objektiv Press. Strand holds a BA in project management, a MA in creative writing and has worked as a photographer for the last 25 years. She works with image and text and uses the book as her gallery. Most recently, she’s published the photo-novel Current Condition. (Journal, 2023) and Studio Situations, a collection of zines made between 2013 and 2019. For Paris Photo in November 2023 she exhibited her new project Second Spring at Cometa in Paris. For Fotobokfestival Oslo in August 2023 she exhibited three of her books published with Journal.
She’s recently co-curated the exhibition Søsterskap for Les Rencontres d’Arles 2023, and published the accompanying Objektiv book with the same title. She’s also written the essays Perpetual Photographs and Visual Wanderings for Objektiv Press, and is a regular contributor with essays on photography for several Norwegian and international publications such as Kunstavisen and Camera Austria. She holds a work grant from from the Art Council in Norway. She was also a recipient of the Art Critic grant from Fritt Ord in 2017.
She has participated in, and arranged several exhibitions in Scandinavia and in Europe. In 2021 she co-curated the exhibition TRUST together with Susan Bright for the f/stop photography festival in Leipzig. In 2020 she co-curated the five chapter exhibition Le Book Club together with Anna Planas and Pierre Hourquet for Fotogalleriet, Oslo.
Installation photo from Fotobokfestival Oslo, Gamle Munch, 2023. Photo by Tor S. Ulstein / KUNSTDOK.
In 2024 she was part of the jury for the DummyAwards at the Photobookmuseum in Cologne. In 2023 she was a jurymember for Les Rencontres d’Arles Les Prix du Livre. In 2022 she was part of the jury for the Krupp Stiftung German Photography Prize. In 2019 she was involved in both the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards and the Camera Austria Award Photography Prize. In 2018 she took part of the expert panel of the seminar Photobook Reset at c/o Berlin and was a Fellow at the MFA Image Text Ithaca summer workshop. Objektiv Press is the third company she has founded. She was part of the editorial group that founded FETT, a Norwegian journal on feminism, and has contributed with photo essays to Morgenbladet, Samtiden, Vinduet and Kraftsentrum among others.
Publications: Studio Situations, self published; Current Condition, Journal; Søsterskap, Objektiv; Visual Wanderings, Objektiv; Perpetual Photographs, Objektiv; STAFETT III, Objektiv; STAFETT II, Objektiv; Residency (working title), self published; STAFETT, Objektiv; Arbeid, self published; Age vs Beauty, self published; Kunstnerlønn,self published; Dr. Strand, Journal; (Kvinnelig) Kunstner, self published; SOLO, self published; Trollet som ikke ville være troll, self published; Backstage, self published; Det Fiktive Forhold, self published; Nykter, Akademisk Publisering; Hvordan synes du selv det går?, Journal; Militær, self published; Gutta på Gølvet, Cappelen.
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