The Community Board

Reflection of a group of strangers taking a selfie in a bar or restaurant mirror, with some of them looking at cameras and others chatting, warm dim lighting, red painted walls, and artwork in the background.

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

Black and white photo of a man in glasses, suit, and tie, smiling at the camera with a pint glass in front of him.

@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

Close-up of a woman with long dark hair, brown eyes, and light skin, smiling softly with a dark background.

@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.

Michael Andersen

@toolandtoys
Born 1975, photographing since the early 90s.

I've been into photography since the early 1990s, working both professionally and as a hobbyist over the years. The last few years, I've found myself more drawn to street and documentary photography, exploring world that unfold around us. Celebrating nothing. Could have been worse. Based on a true story.

Martina Caredda

@martina_caredda
Born 19XX, street photographer since XXXX

Bio to come

Andreas Feydt

A man standing on a city street at dusk, wearing a green jacket and carrying a camera around his neck. Snow is on the ground, and string lights illuminate the background.

@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

A black and white side profile of a smiling man with short dark hair and a beard, wearing a dark shirt.

@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

Black and white photo of a smiling man with glasses and a beard, wearing a baseball cap with the words 'SKIP INTRO' on it.

@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.