At the photographic art museum Brandt, in Odense, Denmark, the photographer, Mette Tronvoll (1965), invites us to take an “eye level” look at the daily joys of life, documented during her expeditions to Japan, Mongolia and Greenland. The exhibition will be on view from January 6 through March 25.

Mette Tronvoll is one of the most notable photographers of her generation in Norway. Since the 1990's, Tronvoll has mostly worked in the field, where she looks for unusual meetings with the subjects of her work in their natural environment. The artist takes portraits of local people and close friends, as well as of contemporaries in other contexts and cultures – Japanese women collecting seaweed on a rocky beach, nomads met on the wide steppes of Mongolia, or a Norwegian military unit doing garrison duty in the South of the country.

In creating her photographic series, At Eye Level, Tronvoll used her individualistic technique of turning not only to the play of light (which many photographers get carried away with), but also having a high regard for color composition. As the artist has said: “Color photography translates reality in a direct and natural way.”

Brandts Torv 1  5000
Odense, Denmark
www.brandts.dk