The title is inspired by the movies “Christiane F. vom Bahnhof Zoo” and “Døden på Oslo S.” (death at Oslo central station). What the F stands for is open, but it can be fiction, foto, fantasy, flowers, etc., or a fictional area of the city.

w 18.7 x h 13 cm
224 Pages
222 images (b&w)

Limited edition of 800

First edition, 2005

Self published / Hit me!

“With curiosity, camera and boots made for walking I set out to explore the streets of Mexico City, Cairo, Mumbai, Kolkata, Dhaka, Shanghai, Sao Paulo, Djakarta and Lagos. All megacities with a population of 10 or more millions, sometimes up to 20 with the greater metropolitan areas included. Cities with two, three, four times as many people than in little Norway where I live.  Usually when we see photographic work from the megacity it’s often about spectacular architecture so I have focused more on the human element and the energy of the city experienced at a grass-root level. How people move, look, play, dance… small stories, from big cities.” M.A.

The result of multiple trips to Northern Norway over a period of 3-4 years. The book depicts the harsh climate and the vast untouched terrain of the north, juxtaposed against the region’s small, remote communities.
Andersen takes an unconventional approach to documentary photography, situating the images in Country.Rock against the backdrop of a sci-fi inspired, post-apocalyptic narrative. In his imagined future, a catastrophic event has made Europe’s urban population centres uninhabitable. Survivors – most of them young – have migrated north, forging new communities and developing new ways of living. The north is conceived as a refuge from the political and social failures of the past; a blank slate for building a radical, post-capitalist future. Country.Rock is a book about escaping the political and social failures of our time, but also myths, dreams and nature. The landscape may be bleak and challenging, but there is hope for the future, with beauty and freedom to be found.

26 books published
from 1999 to 2022