ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This photo is from a project I call Scoundrel days and they describe a period in my life (a couple of years ago) when I had a depression due to difficulties with my family. I tried to go for walks in the nearby forest where I used to live at that time. Some days I could not manage to get out of the house, or even bed. But some days I did and this project shows photos where I have tried to describe my emotions at that time. And you can also see the magnificent nature I love so much. I have cried, screamed, sung, contemplated and meditated in those surroundings.
I try to show a poetic side to the difficult period I was in through my black and white photos. Many people experience depression so the project is not only about me, it is about the feelings so many of us go through. Even though I was deep down in this depression I felt that I could get out of it some day. I used art and culture; music and poetry to help myself in this difficult situation. Patti Smith's word at a concert the year before I became sick - "Be strong! Be free!" were by my side all the time and I listened to her music and I read her poetry in order to meet my demons and try to become elevated and free myself from the distress.
With these photos, that I one day hope to see exhibited somewhere, I want to tell unhappy people that it is really possible to get happy again. Through art you can lift your self up. Be strong. Be free.
AUTHOR
I am Hilde Charlotte and I live in the rural place Hemnes an hour drive from Norway's capital, Oslo. I was born in Oslo in 1970 and lived there for many years, but my boyfriend and I found a house we love out here in rural Norway.
My passion is photography and I love to take photographs of the beauty around me. I see beauty in many things and situations. I am educated a social worker and I have a bachelor degree in sociology from the University of Oslo. I love to observe people and to find their beauty and their soul. I use most of my time to study photography (reading books, doing work shops etc) and I hope to become good one day.
I have two sons at 25 and 20.
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