The Community Board
Oslo SPC was founded in 2021 by Sivert Almvik with the purpose of supporting and showcasing the local community of street photographers by creating an inclusive social space and hosting different events.
The board are the following photographers.
Sivert Almvik
@sivertalmvik • sivertalmvik.no
Born 1981, street photographer since 2001.
Documenting daily life and capturing it as it unfolds before me gives me great joy, as it is as fascinating as it is challenging. So many things has to come together in a blink of an eye. Composition, light, human moments, you name it!
My subconscious does a lot of the decision making for me. Style, mannerism, movement or peoples relation to the surroundings. This is documentation of life in practice.
İtİbar Aydemir Uslu
@itibaraydemiruslu • itibar.no
Born 1988, street photographer since 2021
Photography has a unique way of connecting past and present, and I’m fascinated by this. It captures memories as still frames of light and shadow, and it is the viewer’s duty to give meaning and motion to what has been paused. That’s why I love photography. It allows me to preserve memories, joyful or melancholic, to rewind and replay them in my mind.
I’m drawn to street photography more than any other genre because I enjoy revealing abstract realities hidden in candid scenes. It’s a form of photography you can practice almost anywhere and anytime: while commuting, traveling, or simply wandering the streets. For me, it’s a way to step out of the flow and reflect in the middle of everyday life’s motion. Street photography is my wonderland, where I sketch personalities, moments, and moods on an ever-changing urban canvas.
Eva Brodtkorb
@evabrodtkorb_photography • evabrodtkorb.com
Born 1982, street photographer since 2019
I enjoy the surprise of catching unique moments in the streets, like beautiful, funny, or dramatic scenes. It's about capturing the emotions of the moment and sharing them. Street photography offers a special freedom that no other type of photography can match.
I'm drawn to scenes with vibrant colors, and strong contrasts that make the moment come alive in my photos. At the same time, it's crucial for me not to confine myself to anything specific. I want to remain open to the unexpected, to those small moments that often go unnoticed. Street photography, to me, is about capturing the moments in the urban landscape, the small stories unfolding around us every day.
Morten Andresen
@morten.clicks
Born 1979, street photographer since 2018
I enjoy capturing everyday moments and making them look cool. Street photography is also very accessible, so it's a great way to be creative and express yourself.
I usually find a location I like and wait for something interesting to happen in that space. I don't mind hanging around one spot for a while because to me the location is just as important as the subject.
Andreas Feydt
@andreasfphoto • andreasfeydt.com
Born 1986, street photographer since 2016
I have always enjoyed studying people and how life unfolds around me. In addition, I am interested in history. Seeing pictures that show life in yesteryears really fascinates me.
For me, street photography plays an important role as documentation of the contemporary. Therefore, it gradually became natural for me to draw my photography in this direction. The fact that it is a very accessible form of photography that easily can be included in daily life is also a helpful factor.
I am often drawn towards the unusual in the usual. Rarities in daily life, humour, strange coincidences and so on. But it can sometimes also just be a scene that I find visually pleasing.
Øyvind Nordhagen
@oyvindwashere • bio.site/nordhagen
Born 1981, street photographer since 2019
Walking the streets alone and watching and reflecting on everything around me ultimately made me start to document it, like a bystander to humanity. That being said I don’t consider myself strictly a street photographer.
I take interest in human behaviour. From banal and mundane moments to the deadpan funny, to the outright bizarre things people do in public. Norwegians aren’t typically outgoing, flamboyant people who wear their identities on their sleeves. We expect privacy even in public, which makes it a challenge to catch them doing interesting things. That’s part of the fun!
I also have a background in graphic design, which breaks through in the form of just pleasing compositions sometimes.
Thomas Myhre
@toms_stills
Born 1998, street photographer since after 2020
I found street photography right after the pandemic, trying to keep my creative output going after university. It stuck, and I became fascinated in the way street photography's ability to illicit emotion through such a mundane setting. I therefore aspire to do just that - take photographs that create a sense of emotion or feeling in a overlooked place.
I usually wander around the streets without much of a plan. I want to capture what I see as interesting and captivating, and hope that I'm able to translate that feeling onto my photography.