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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Sep 10

whatever light we manage here, what love, like a beam in black space, will accompany us out.

Words by Jeffrey Skinner
Self-portrait with an 85mm near Lauvtjern
This is my love letter to Østmarka that I’ll never stop writing all my life, and these are the trees I will haunt in the next one

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Aug 4

I was able to be so relaxed and at one with my creativity, knowing it was just me, the toads, the deer, and the beetles.

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Aug 4

It was a long journey to this spot but I was so moved by how solitary it was. When you shoot nude self portraits alone you are naturally afraid of people coming by. Both of scaring others or experiencing violence, even in a safe place like Norway. You have no backup out there.

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Aug 4

golden, haunted

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 24

Holy Nordic summer forever

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 20

It was one long, long mama perm. Come to Oslo and let’s go on a photo adventure!

Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 19

A million weird slimy living things in this water. I was fine as long as I was focused on the self portrait at hand, and only creeped out when I let my imagination drift to what my toes were feeling…

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 13

It’s a mystery to me why we’re all lingering somewhere that so obviously hates us and wants to mine our subconsciousnesses for cold sweet ad cash.

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 13

I have recently experienced a full return to my creative soul after a kind of “maternity leave” from being able to give a shit about it. I feel it burns brighter now having known my little love.

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 13

Two shots from a sea of ferns, taken yesterday in Lillomarka. The silence was enchanting, broken occasionally by the giggle of my toddler half a kilometre down a path as she foraged wild strawberries with her dad.

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 10

Lysaker

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Levamenti @levamenti.bsky.social · Jul 8

Østmarka, fending back mosquitoes in the pursuit of something pretty