You can now buy my book Blick/Sight and also the tshirt by mailing me at cato@catolein.com

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Way up north on Norway's Varanger peninsula, near the Barents Sea but in a strategic, storm-free spot - lies Båtsfjord.

Cato Lein, born in Båtsfjord in 1957.

Cato Lein's original, intensive portraits are his distinctive stock-in-trade. They stem from a coherent approach and complete openness to whatever may happen when it is time to click the shutter. He sets out to improvise, and prepares only by keeping his equipment in trim – as for the rest, he leaves it to chance. On the other hand, his preparations in terms of getting to know his models, gathering information about them and reading their books, are maximised.

By the time he picks up his camera, he knows who the person is.

"I often do two takes, one for the client and for myself. With my own, I test the limits of the possible – see how far I can go. This shot shows the person portrayted in a new way, never negatively but not flatteringly either. That's what lots of my pictures are like: I've pushed the look in a direction that ends up surprising the models. Mostly, they like what I do and respect my artistic freedom."

Contact me at:
Phone: +46 (0)706 435 939 Email: cato@lein.as