Tonje Bøe Birkeland's photographs imagine the exploits of fictional female scientists and adventurers from the past
The imagined female scientists, explorers and adventurers seen in Tonje Bøe Birkeland’s photographs are echoes from a footnote in women’s history. In her ongoing series,
, the photographer frames herself in the guise of Victorian and early-20th century pioneers – dressed in period costume, holding binoculars and bellows cameras – snapped in widescreen vistas of mountains, fjords and ice flows. Each picture is a performance.The project began in 2008, when Birkeland was on a course about photography’s role in shaping historical truths. “It was all about did
go to the moon? Did Roald Amundsen actually get to the Pole first?” she recalls. “That made me want to do something about women.” Her first character was a glaciologist.Her photographs are puzzles and her work taps into the names, appearances and biographies of real, unrecognised women, such as, a polar scientist who traversed the north-east coast of Greenland in the 1920s.
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