COL: What do you want to communicate through your work? Is there a message - political or otherwise?
MB: There is always a thought behind every project, even if it is only to have fun. But thats the thing, you never really know how what you do will make a change or if it will at all. I took this picture of me having my period and people really liked it (and hated it) and we sold a lot of t-shirts with the picture on to young people and it kinda became a feminist statement. I never predicted that.
So sometimes the project you do just for your own need is the one that will affect people the most, not because you decided it but people did. Its very interesting.
COL: Do artists of today have some kind of of social responsibility?
MB: I think we all hold that responsibility as humans, and living up that makes your art stronger.
COL: What does uncontaminated mean for you?
MB: The only bond I have had with uncontaminated so far is FALCK´s exhibition a few years ago which I really liked. Im very bad at going to galleries and checking out stuff.
U: What is the most important thing in your life?
MB: My freedom.
COL: How do you feel right now?
MB: Good. A lot things are aligning up for me lately.
COL: If you could change one thing in the world today, what would it be?
MB: That the whole world went vegan and started taking care of the nature.
COL: What are the main reasons you are joining us for the festival this year?
MB: I was asked and concrete deadlines always does me good.
COL: What is the most important drive for you to create and why?
MB: The rush of creating something which is good, which touches people and yourself.
COL: Who or what do you value as a great inspiration for you creatively?
MB: Literature is definitely what inspires me most.
COL: Can you elaborate on an important moment in your life where you experienced a big change, chose to make one or another event which altered your way of thinking or your approach to creativity ?
MB: I remember this one moment at school, I had just started and I knew nothing of photography or art. I had never hold a camera or gone to a gallery, it just seemed like something that other people did, that it required knowledge that I didn't have.
So far we had only had lectures at school about old painters, statues, academics, religious art and so on and it just didn't connect to me. But then our teacher was showing us pictures from the norwegian photographer Morten Andersen. It was
a picture of two japanese girls looking out a window from a view, in very contrasty black and white. And I really felt connection at that second, there was something I could relate to. I thought «this is cool, I wanna do this»
So I saw more and more work like this. and never had I realized that photography could be something so honest and real, something i could recognize myself in.
COL: How does digital and social media affect or inspire your life and creations?
MB: I really hate social media but I can't get off instagram because I feel I will miss out on something, and I don't know how I would spread my work or contact people I want to shoot.
Mostly I don't like social media because it takes up to much space of people and things just lose their quality.
Internett is great in many ways, but what people mostly use it for is porn and facebook.
COL: What do you define as art?
MB: There is no definition, as long as it touches something in you.
COL: What is your definition of artistic freedom?
MB: Artistic freedom for me is the same as personal freedom.
