The Sun Sets Inside You
In 2017 the Norwegian photographer Erik Mowinckel was recovering from a prolonged period of mental illness. At the time the walks in Oslo, his home town, accompanied by his camera served as a kind of therapy for him. For Erik taking photographs became a way of relocating himself and played a crucial part in his process of recovery; The walks became a much needed routine and photography worked as a channel to express and deal with difficult emotions. The book The Sun Sets Inside You tells a deeply personal story of recovery through fragments of both darkness and brightness.
-Janne Riikonen
“When looking at the photographs now, knowing where I was in my life, I can't help but think that they deal with grief. The city depicted has a feeling of emptiness to it, as if it's unusually quiet, desolate, or even peaceful. Even though a few of the photographs include people, they remain anonymous, you see the back of their head or their figure from a distance, sometimes rendered almost invisible due to the oncoming light. During the years I took these photographs I was in a process of recovery, I was slowly finding my way forward but it happened so slowly that it is only in hindsight that I notice that I'm in a better place now. The Sun Sets Inside You deals with grief, but first and foremost it is about hope.”
-Erik Mowinckel
Hand bound booklet in board covers
80 pages
48 colour photographs
Digital printing on 120g paper
19,5 x 28 cm
Limited edition of 100 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-4-4
Kult Books 2023
American Suburb X
In 2017 the Norwegian photographer Erik Mowinckel was recovering from a prolonged period of mental illness. At the time the walks in Oslo, his home town, accompanied by his camera served as a kind of therapy for him. For Erik taking photographs became a way of relocating himself and played a crucial part in his process of recovery; The walks became a much needed routine and photography worked as a channel to express and deal with difficult emotions. The book The Sun Sets Inside You tells a deeply personal story of recovery through fragments of both darkness and brightness.
-Janne Riikonen
“When looking at the photographs now, knowing where I was in my life, I can't help but think that they deal with grief. The city depicted has a feeling of emptiness to it, as if it's unusually quiet, desolate, or even peaceful. Even though a few of the photographs include people, they remain anonymous, you see the back of their head or their figure from a distance, sometimes rendered almost invisible due to the oncoming light. During the years I took these photographs I was in a process of recovery, I was slowly finding my way forward but it happened so slowly that it is only in hindsight that I notice that I'm in a better place now. The Sun Sets Inside You deals with grief, but first and foremost it is about hope.”
-Erik Mowinckel
Hand bound booklet in board covers
80 pages
48 colour photographs
Digital printing on 120g paper
19,5 x 28 cm
Limited edition of 100 copies
ISBN 978-91-987606-4-4
Kult Books 2023
American Suburb X
Recovery in a place
where it is hard to find
“the possibility of finding a new sense of belonging
in a place you have discarded as too familiar.”
Softcover
36 pages
33 color photographs
Digital printing
Edition of 20 copies
Self published 2020
where it is hard to find
“the possibility of finding a new sense of belonging
in a place you have discarded as too familiar.”
Softcover
36 pages
33 color photographs
Digital printing
Edition of 20 copies
Self published 2020
