East of the Sun, West of the Moon
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PhotographerJim Nickelson, United States
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Stories of distant and mysterious lands have stirred my
imagination since I was a young child, curled up each day with
some type of escapist literature, whether it be mythology, fairy
tales, or fantasy. In these stories, the best and most interesting
worlds were those that were difficult to reach for the protagonist.
A Norwegian fairy tale taught us that a place east of the sun and
west of the moon is a place that is effectively part of another world
and notoriously hard to reach. In this project, I seek out
landscapes that are evocative of another world, that seem to be of
a different universe, time, or place than our own. Like those
stories that fed my imagination in my own youth, these landscapes
are portals to lands that lay east of the sun and west of the moon.
