Eirik Brekke, The Plateau – ”Pictures from Hardangervidda”

The Plateau – ”Pictures from Hardangervidda”

Eirik Brekke

Publisher
Journal
Year
2025
ISBN
978-91-87939-86-0
Specifications
Hard cover
300 x 242 mm
136 pages
Text by Marit Eikemo, Eirik Brekke, Roald Amundsen
Design by Eirik Brekke, Gösta Flemming
59 color images
Text in Norwegian and English
Printed by Narayana Press
Bookbinding by S. R. Büge

Hardangervidda is Northern Europe’s largest high mountain plateau, covering 8 000 square kilometers. If you stand in the middle of the plateau, the view is almost infinite in all directions. You will see rivers, large lakes and weathered mountains. About 8 000 meters ago, the first people came to the highland plateau, they lived by hunting reindeer and fishing. From 2015 to 2024 Eirik Brekke has been a regular visitor to Hardangervidda to see who uses the plateau today. After many of the photos were taken, restrictions have been introduced on human traffic on parts of the Hardangervidda. This is to protect the wild reindeer herd that has been on the plateau since the last ice age. Afterword by Marit Eikemo, Norwegian essayist, novelist, journalist and magazine editor. This is Eirik Brekke’s first book.

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