Member Showcase - Lena Saugen
I “met” Lena Saugen through my private Facebook Group, Fashion Photographers Connect! She started posting pictures and BTS videos from her latest work and I was so in love with her images! Lena hired me for a portfolio review and we got to know each other better through Zoom! I have to admit, that when she booked the consultation and sent me her website, I fell in love with her work! She has a born talent and eye for photography. Her work immediately reads that she connects with her subjects and understands lighting, composition, and capturing the moment! She is, in my mind, a master photographer! And after our Zoom meetings, I felt like I made a new friend. Here is a bio about Lena and her team as well as some words about this shoot, that I love so much! Read on!
Lena Saugen is a Norwegian freelance photographer, working in the fields of equestrian, fashion, and wedding photography. She has been working closely with Therese Alhaug for many years, both as a contributor for Equilife World Magazine, but also together in the team “Tess & Lena”, doing several projects together. She is inspired by music, art, nature, good films/drama series, and meeting people. She also works for the Norwegian broadcasting company.
Therese Alhaug combines her work as an editor of Equilife World Magazine, with promoting Equestrian Sports. As a marketing entrepreneur, she fills most of her days with writing and photographing horses and riders. In the last years, she has been working with Lena on several creative photo projects; a content production team-up named Tess & Lena. She's a passionate soul with a love for nature, art, horses, and inspiring meetings.
Nora Fredrikke Falck Holmen is a multidisciplinary designer, spending her time on digital design work and conceptual art projects. She is interested in nature conservation, tech, sport, biology, and horses. She finds inspiration by combining urban city life with spending time off the grid and connecting with the elements.
About The Shoot:
The Background:
These are strange times. We are living in uncertainty, facing ongoing global challenges and threats, ranging from climate change, food, energy, and water crisis (disasters), dangers of extinction, and the present pandemic.
As human beings, we naturally seek to understand, predict, and control the future – to learn and to keep us safe. But what happens when we cannot predict the future anymore?
The vision:
'A Message' is an artwork reflecting human vulnerability. It also explores an inner strength rising from hope and faith, despite feeling anxious and scared. It's a message on balancing wisdom and power and allowing yourself to get in touch with how you're feeling, without surrendering. A reminder that you are not alone. It's a story about a girl escaping her world to find comfort in nature's eternal rhythms. It's about a soulmate/soul animal (the horse), an abandoned farm, and a mighty mountain - all symbolizing the eternal.
