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Brother Sister (Hardcover)
Elin Hoyland; Gaute Heivoll
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'Brother|Sister' tells the story of Edvard and Bergit Bjelland who
grew up with their parents and siblings on a small farm in a remote
part of Norway on the south-west coast. The farmhouse itself dated
back to 1800s and is now a listed building. Edvard was the fourth
generation of his family to have owned the farm and had kept
horses, cows, pigs, hens and over one hundred sheep. When Elin
Hoyland first met him, his sister Berjit had recently died, most of
the livestock had been sold off and the land rented out. He now
lived alone looking after just a handful of sheep. Edvard had been
the only one to stay on the homestead, though his sister Bergit
eventually moved back into the farnhouse with him, after living
several years in the city of Stavanger. In the late 1970s she moved
out again, but this time to a new house that she had built just a
stone's throw from her childhood home. Bergit died in 2011 and
Edvard now looks after her house. This is a story of two very
different lives, lived within a matter of yards of each other.
Whilst the physical distance separating Edvard and Bergit may have
been minimal, their emotional and lifestyle choices are so far
apart. Through her photographs Hoyland explores these choices, the
different dreams and needs that the brother and sister sought to
fulfill, whilst award winning Norwegian novelist and poet, Gaute
Heivoll provides a short fictional piece inspired by the images.
The collaboration is both absorbing and moving.
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