DEN SISTE VIKING MARCUS BLEASDALE

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1 DEN SISTE VIKING MARCUS BLEASDALE

2 DEN SISTE VIKING Marcus Bleasdale is a contributing photographer for National Geographic Magazine. His work has been shown at the US Senate, The House of Representatives, The UK houses of Parliament and has been projected onto the Storting in Oslo. He recently completed a project for National Geographic Magazine on communities in Lofoten. Focusing on the change in opportunities for local people and the fishing and whaling industries that are culturally and economically important for the region. Much of the work was created on Røst and with the Røst fishing and whaling community. Marcus and imaging.no in Oslo have now donated weather proof, outdoor exhibition, that will hopefully last years. The photographs are placed on Røst in the place they were taken and can be used as an opportunity to tour the island and learn about the beauty, the people and the industries on the island. There is a booklet available around the island to guide you to the images.

3 The confirmation at 14 years is a big event in Norway and these children will be the next generation to leave the island. They are Mariel Karlsen, Monika Sanja Johnsen, Natalia Hansen, Jonas Jørgensen, Julianne Eide. (Querini Restaurant) Boats arrive late in the evening at Glea Factory on Røst. They prepare the fish for the factories either on the boat or on land and the seagulls fly trying to catch the scraps for food. Workers at the factory prepare to receive the boats on the quay. (Glea Fish Factory) Skies clear after a storm on the islands of Røst. The streets remain deserted after the winds beat the shores. (Querini Restaurant) Odd Helge 21 the youngest boat owner on the island of Røst and one of the 3 young fishermen who have decided to take up the profession on the island in the past 17 years. He fishes with 4 lines instead of nets, which is the more traditional method from these waters. It is also a cheaper way of starting as the nets can be expensive and you generally need a larger boat to succeed. (Glea Fish Factory). An egyptian worker for Røst Sjømat takes down the cod from hanging drying on Røst. the cod will be shipped to europe for use in soups and baccalao, mostly in Italy and Spain. (Røst Bryggehotell) Håvard Vikedal a 15 year old school boy on the boat of his grandfather Oge. He hopes to be a fisherman when he leaves school and will go straight onto the boats. He will be only the 3rd young boy to decide to be a fisherman in the past 15 years on the island of Røst. (Glea Fish Factory)

4 Eilert and Raymond Nilsen on board the boat the Nordfangst. They are hunting whale in the Vestfjorden in Northern Norway. Each year they will catch about whale. (Faerøye) Leif Evjen makes his way to the store for his daily shopping. (John Greger Fish Factory) Eilert and Raymond Nilsen on board the boat the Nordfangst. They are hunting whale in the Vestfjorden in Northern Norway. Each year they will catch about whale. (Faerøye) Raymond Nilsen on the boat with his father Eilert, both whalers, early in the morning readying to retrieve nets during the cod season. Eilert and Raymonds boat is one of just 3 whaling boats left in this community. Only 3 young men have decided to stay and be fishermen in the past 15 years, only one has decided to be a whaler in 17 years from this community. (John Greger Fish Factory)

5 Raymond Nilsen on the boat with his father Eilert collecting cod during the cod season. (John Greger Fish Factory) Hunting whale on the Jan Bjorn in Lødingen, Lofoten, Norway. (Touristinformation Kiosk) Røst old church after the preceding churches had either burnt down or blown down by the wind, there was raised a solid stone church in 1825, covered with wood. After short time s use, this church proved to be too small for the island population and the incoming fishermen and a new wooden church was commissioned. (Old stone church) The old and derelict sheep house built by the pettersen family in the early 1900s for protecting the sheep in a storm lies in the north of the island at Røstlandet. At one time the whole community would have sheep to feed the family and make wool, but now only 3 families own sheep on the island. (Old stone church)

6 Eilert and Raymond Nilsen on board the boat the Nordfangst. They are hunting whale in the Vestfjorden in Northern Norway. Each year they will catch about whale. (Raymond s grandfather s rorbu) THANKS Anne Cecile and Hildegunn Pedersen, Eilert and Raymond Nilsen, Håvard Vikedal, Odd Helge Isaksen. Glea, John Greger and Røst Sjømat factories, Røst kommune and everyone else on the Island of Røst who made this project possible. Eilert Nilsen on board the boat the Nordfangst. The mountains of Moskenes reflected in the window. They are hunting whale in the Vestfjorden in Northern Norway. Each year they will catch about whale. (Raymond s grandfather s rorbu)