Ruud Streefkerk

In ice-cold weather we are driving along the Sandfjorden, a bay on the Varanger peninsula in Norway, on our way to Berlevåg, one of the northernmost ports of Europe. In the inner part of the bay, where the Sandfjord River flows into the Barents Sea, stretches a kilometer-long sandy beach. But on the rocks seaweed has settled. The brown and bright green of the weed forms a beautiful color palette with the rocks, which turn from dark green on the wet parts into a lighter sand color when dried up by the sunlight. It strikes us as a surprising contradiction, all these colors in a frosty cold environment.