The board of Kunstnernes Hus invited Professor Robert Meyer to serve as guest curator for the exhibition. He was to organise an exhibition that would showcase the currents and developments within contemporary Norwegian photography.

«Many people find it difficult to relate to photography as a form of art. It seems hard to interpret photographs. Not because one doesn’t see what the pictures represent – that is simple. But photographs are so ambiguous and at the same time so common that we no longer think about what we actually see, how we see it or why we see it in just that way. Perhaps it is a matter of becoming aware of the most obvious things, such that we can behold photography afresh?

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Today artistic photography is no longer questioned. We wonder rather how these art pictures in fact expand our understanding. The demand that physical qualities should stand in some relation to the material identity of the medium is something which is more proper to other visual forms of expression such as painting and sculpture. Such expectations with regard to photography have just confused the art-interested public. For the most important qualities of photography simply do not lie in its material existence, but perhaps rather in its position in relation to our social integrity: how we relate to ourselves, each other and our surroundings. Photography is not only able to allow us to experience new things, but also to be aware of the experience itself. Photography has to do with our membranes, with mental attitudes, with association and choice – and with the fascination in seeing. In this way, most photographs have to do with us who look at the pictures."

Curator Robert Meyer in the exhibition catalogue

The exhibition consisted of 20 works by Tom Sandberg and Fin Serck-Hansen. Emphasis was placed on a clean and deliberate installation, and offered the audience an opportunity to reflect on 'what it means for photographs to possess artistic expression, and the possibilities this expression holds in defining what may be experienced as an aesthetic space'.

Tom Sandberg (1953–2014) was a Norwegian art photographer, best known for his black-and-white photographs. He worked within a modernist tradition, with non-staged photography, and was instrumental in establishing photography as an art form on the Norwegian art scene. The subjects of his works ranged from detailed studies and landscapes to nudes and intimate portraits.

Fin Serck-Hansen (b. 1958, Høvik) is a Norwegian photographer whose works are characterised by a sense of closeness to the subjects of his portraits. The majority of his best-known photographs depict portraits from music communities and minority groups, including young punks, LGBTQ+ individuals, people living with AIDS, and prison inmates. Serck-Hansen frequently employs the body as a recurring theme, but approached with a realist and observational sensibility.