TEN YEARS (2012 - 2021)
The summer of 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the island of Utoya on July 22, 2011. In the year following the incident, I portrayed the young people who survived. I visited Utoya; today a peaceful island, but full of wounds and memories. In 2021 I made a new portrait of some of the survivors. They are now young adults; some of them live a quiet family life in the suburbs, others have become politicians. Some manage to put their experiences to good use through work or social engagement; others feel they never received the help they needed and were promised. More than a third of them still struggle with PTSD.