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One Day in History
Photographer Andrea Gjestvang has been granted NOK 100 000 for a portrait project with the working title "One Day in History". Gjestvang will photograph a large number of the young people who survived the Utøya tragedy on 22 July now as they are resuming their regular lives. The portraits will be accompanied by the young people's own words. The project will initially be published in magazines in Norway and abroad and be displayed at several exhibitions. In the long term, the goal is a book publication. "One Day in History" is Gjestvang's contribution to the European photo project "The Rise of Populism".
A list has now been published of the major grants made by the Fritt Ord Foundation in December 2011.
This photograph is of Eirin Kjær (19):
"We hid in a cave. There were maybe about 15 of us hiding there. A friend screamed that she did not want to lie closest to the entrance. 'I can be on the outside', I said. Immediately afterwards, I turned around, and there he stood. I looked right at him, and then he shot me. In the stomach. I ran towards the water, and shouted: 'Please, don't shoot me, I don't want to die.' He shot me three more times. I slumped down at the edge of the water, leaning against the rock face, my legs dangling in the water. I sat like that for two hours, but the time passed very quickly. I was certain that I was going to die - to bleed to death. But I was not afraid. In a sense, dying would have been the easiest way out, it was okay, even though there were many things I wanted to do in life. The timing was wrong, but the pain was so intense that I had given up and accepted the situation. I didn't know, of course, what kind of injuries I had sustained, or how long it would take before someone would rescue us.
After Utøya, I am no longer afraid of death. I was there. I thought I was going to die."
Eirin was shot in the stomach, arm, thigh and just below the armpit. After six weeks in the hospital, she is at home in Laksvatn in Troms County.
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One Day in History
Photographer Andrea Gjestvang has been granted NOK 100 000 for a portrait project with the working title "One Day in History". Gjestvang will photograph a large number of the young people who survived the Utøya tragedy on 22 July now as they are resuming their regular lives. The portraits will be accompanied by the young people's own words. The project will initially be published in magazines in Norway and abroad and be displayed at several exhibitions. In the long term, the goal is a book publication. "One Day in History" is Gjestvang's contribution to the European photo project "The Rise of Populism".
A list has now been published of the major grants made by the Fritt Ord Foundation in December 2011.
This photograph is of Eirin Kjær (19):
"We hid in a cave. There were maybe about 15 of us hiding there. A friend screamed that she did not want to lie closest to the entrance. 'I can be on the outside', I said. Immediately afterwards, I turned around, and there he stood. I looked right at him, and then he shot me. In the stomach. I ran towards the water, and shouted: 'Please, don't shoot me, I don't want to die.' He shot me three more times. I slumped down at the edge of the water, leaning against the rock face, my legs dangling in the water. I sat like that for two hours, but the time passed very quickly. I was certain that I was going to die - to bleed to death. But I was not afraid. In a sense, dying would have been the easiest way out, it was okay, even though there were many things I wanted to do in life. The timing was wrong, but the pain was so intense that I had given up and accepted the situation. I didn't know, of course, what kind of injuries I had sustained, or how long it would take before someone would rescue us.
After Utøya, I am no longer afraid of death. I was there. I thought I was going to die."
Eirin was shot in the stomach, arm, thigh and just below the armpit. After six weeks in the hospital, she is at home in Laksvatn in Troms County.
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