Hand crafted

‘It's important for photographers everywhere that we find our style, find what we love to do. If you don't find such a project, you wouldn't go through with it. You need to care deeply. It makes my heart sing.'

Award-winning Norwegian photographer Anne Helene Gjelstad is talking about her reportage and book, published by Dewi Lewis. For several weeks at a time over 11 years, she has fastidiously documented the unique matriarchal society of old women