I forever loved old photographs, black and white, exposed with old-fashioned photographic techniques, unsharp, scratched, imperfect and faded. They have so much to tell from a world long gone or far away. They transport something enigmatic, something you cannot grasp entirely, they are extracted from a context I do not understand. The artwork Russeprinsesse is taken by a commercial photographer in Oslo in 1903 (as the title suggests :-). It is a studio shot taken under perfect conditions. The photographer worked with a forrest backdrop to place the depicted person in nature. The original c-print (approx 8 x 15 cm) was provided by Oslo Katedralskolen. After digitalising the original and so printing Henrik Kleppe comes in and does his magic. With airbrush and delicate brush strokes he transforms the original material into a unique piece of art by adding dreamy and cloudy colours to the motif.