Ursula Jernberg was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Whilst researching her family tree back in 2010, she uncovered her ancestral Norwegian roots. Intrigued by and excited about this discovery, she decided to travel to Norway in the summer of that same year. During this trip she developed an intrinsic fascination and love for the country and its culture; she has since come to feel the same for Scandinavia as a whole. Ursula Jernberg studied Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (NL). Her photography aims to study the influence external factors have on the creation of one’s own identity. Her book Characters of Jante was self-published in 2012 and has been sold in the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. Today we share her series, Aurora. AURORA ‘It presents me with a notion that life is real. A certain authenticity. When you are able to do what life asks of you, it requires a silence within yourself to be able to hear.’ It is said that once you have …
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