Anna Inga Ellen ─ Bente Geving

A photobook by Norwegian Sámi photographer Bente Geving, portraying her grandmother Ellen and her sisters Anna and Inga in northern Norway in the 1980s.

Anna Inga Ellen is a photobook by Norwegian Sámi photographer Bente Geving.

The book brings together photographs Geving made in Sandnes, Sør-Varanger, in northern Norway during the 1980s, portraying her Sámi grandmother Ellen and Ellen’s sisters, Anna and Inga.

Photographed with intimacy, the series follows the three women through their everyday routines and interactions within their respective homes. Rather than treating Sámi culture as something exotic or unfamiliar, Geving focuses on daily life and family relationships. The result is both a distinctive document of Sámi cultural history and a story that people from different backgrounds can recognise and relate to through their own experiences.

More than forty years after the photographs were made, the personalities and relationships of the three sisters remain vivid and immediate.

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Title: Anna Inga Ellen
Artist: Bente Geving
Publisher: Multipress, 2026
Format: Hardcover, offset printing
Size: 215 × 270 mm
Pages: 136
Language: Norwegian / English / Northern Sámi
Edition: First edition of 500 copies
ISBN: 978-82-92224-71-7