{"id":12881,"date":"2017-03-20T13:56:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/?post_type=utstillinger&p=12881\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:24:21","slug":"along-the-street-with-the-photographer-knut-stokmo","status":"publish","type":"bc_exhibition","link":"https:\/\/perspektivet.no\/en\/exhibitions\/along-the-street-with-the-photographer-knut-stokmo\/","title":{"rendered":"Along the streets with the Photographer Knut Stokmo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Knut Stokmo is a well-known name in Troms\u00f8, having been a photographer in the city for more than 40 years. Children\u2019s portraits and memories of life\u2019s big events grace the walls of many a home, signed Stokmo Foto A\/S, the company Knut and his wife Kirsten ran together. As a commercial photographer, Knut Stokmo has documented the city\u2019s businesses for
several decades, leaving us source material with great cultural-historical value. But that\u2019s another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition Gatelangs (Along the Streets) is an astonishing story about the youth Knut Stokmo from Tromsdalen, who impressed an international public with his exquisite artistic talent and technical skill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Work as apprentice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Knut was apprenticed to the Troms\u00f8-photographer Signe F\u00f8lstad, who gave him thorough training in the field. At 21 years of age he earned his journeyman\u2019s certificate, and at 25 he ended his formal education with a master\u2019s certificate (1967). His training included study trips to southern Norway, Germany and England, funded in part by a grant from Kodak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opened his own business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From 1959 to 1968, the year he sets up his own business, Knut wanders the streets with his camera, drawing inspiration from international trends and diverse genres. He takes the initiative to establish Troms\u00f8 Photo Club and is its first foreman. At the same time, he submits photos to photo magazines throughout Scandinavia and participates in competitions and exhibitions, winning prizes and rave reviews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stokmo\u2019s \u201ccomet career\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOld Fisherman\u201d, a picture of a local man popularly called Lus-Lars, is Knut Stokmo\u2019s contribution to an exhibition in Poland in 1963, organised by the International Federation of Photographic Art, FIAP. Competing with participants from across the world, Knut\u2019s work is selected as one of 14 to be given an exclusive presentation in the exhibition catalogue. Four years later, he is one of two Norwegian photographers represented in FIAP\u2019s yearbook. The photo magazine KAMERA calls Knut Stokmo\u2019s success in the early 1960s a \u201ccomet career\u201d, while the Swedish magazine Film og Fotonytt expects \u201cgreat things\u201d from the young man from Troms\u00f8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition Gatelangs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition Gatelangs presents a small selection works from Stokmo\u2019s early career. The pictures reveal a sure eye for composition and a personality keen to explore and experiment, open and unafraid when meeting the people he photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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