A Light Left On

2025 · Norway

A series made in Norway in winter, on medium format and 35mm colour film. The photographs move through a landscape where darkness arrives early and stays, collecting the light that persists in it: windows, doorways, the ordinary structures that hold warmth against the cold.

These images were made across Norway during winter. They are not interested in the spectacular. They look instead at the unremarkable light that survives in the dark: a farmhouse window, an open barn door, a petrol station standing alone in the snow. Shot on medium format and 35mm colour film, the work moves between the intimate and the indifferent. A house that glows from inside suggests life without revealing it. A public toilet illuminated in blue twilight holds the same formal weight as a manor house by the fjord. The series is interested in shelter as a fact, and in what the light inside it communicates to whoever is outside, looking in.

Roadside neon sign reading God Jul in falling snow, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Red house in a snowstorm with a single lit window, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Empty snow-covered road at night under street lights, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Pale farmhouse at night with one lit window, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

White clapboard house at dusk, every window lit, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Farmhouse at night above a field of cut hay, one window glowing, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Row of lit timber public toilets in the snow at night, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

White farmhouse with one lit window beneath fjord mountains at dusk, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Lit petrol station alone in the snow at night, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

Snow-covered timber barn at dusk with firewood stacked in the lit doorway, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel

White house lit up beneath a dark mountainside in the snow, Norway. Film photograph by Nicolò Pudel