Alger, Algeria
The view from the artist’s family’s window in Algiers is juxtaposed with an old photograph of her grandmother, Aisha. It accompanies a personal letter written by her grandmother to her granddaughter a few months before her passing. Algiers, Algeria, 2005. ©Linda Bournane Engelberth/VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
Alger, Algeria
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
©Linda Bournane Engelberth / VII
Daugapils, Latvia. Alina, 17, wants to stay. She is happy to live in Daugapils, even if many of her friends left.
Krāslava, Latvia. . Despite the struggles this generation encounters, there is still a deep connection to national identity, especially the rich and lush nature in the countryside.
Daugapils, Latvia. Jelena just quit her job at Mc Donalds, after working and studying art and computer design at the same time, she is having a hard time with her boyfriend.
Krāslava, Latvia. Victoria loves the fertil nature in Krāslava
Rhondda Valley, South Wales. Kathrine and Amy are best friends. They feel that life in the Valleys is rough and they both want to leave after finishing University.
Lucy, Rhondda, Wales. Lucy´s parents run an expanding family business and she loves living in the Rhondda Valleys.
Abigale (15) and Richard (16) plan to have a baby. They are both on welfare and lack ambitions regarding the future, except building a family together which will bring in more finacial support. Teenage pregnancies are common in the Valleys.
Raul plays in the field as his father gathers fodder for their horse in Drăgoeni, Romania.
Luminita gathers wood in the forest to use to heat her home in Drăgoeni, Romania
Eleven people from Drăgoeni, Romania travel to Norway at the cost of 150 euro per person. The trip takes four days and is bout physically and emotionally exhausting.
Ionots has wed again after a failed marriage. This time he thinks it will work. It is rare for Roma to divorce, but when they do it is always a family decision.
Leonard, 12-years-old has been smoking since he was ten.
Ramona and Alexandra, two sisters from Tetila, Romania, put on makeup while getting ready, Ramona got married at 13 years old, while her 12 year old sister is to be wed in two years.
Location
Oslo, Norway

Linda Bournane Engelberth

Contributing Photographer

Linda Bournane Engelberth (b. 1977, Norway) is a Norwegian-Algerian artist based in Oslo and Berlin.

She holds an advanced craft certificate in photography and a BA in History of Art. Her work focuses on identity through personal and subjective narratives, as well as rural communities in flux. Her most recent exhibitions include those at Die Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the DUMBO Art Festival in New York, and Noplace in Oslo, among several others in Norway, the US, and Europe. From 2011-2013, she was selected for the Norwegian Journal of Photography, as part of a program supporting ten independent photographers in Norway. Her work was also selected for the European Photo Exhibition Award in 2014.

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