Lofoten Islands in Norway.
They say that for love one is able to live The other side of the world and that sometimes they are those adventure the ones that make you know unique destinations and with whom you feel a special feeling . the french photographer Eric Haidar The author of Stratosferik Photo felt something like this for his partner and for Oslo nine years ago when he decided to move to the most populous city in Norway.
Since then he has not stopped photographing them both, love of his life Already Oslo ; the result is a point of view eclectic, symmetrical, urban and special of the city and the country. Something you may never have seen.
Balance is one of the things that has most caught his attention: the fjords , the forest and their way of life, everything seems to be in harmony.
Tusenfryd leisure park.
“I started seriously in 2015 when I bought a fuji x100s secondhand. It has been my camera ever since,” the photographer told Traveler.es.
Designer by day and photographer in their free time , Eric has let the creativity "went crazy" and photographed amazing places not only from Oslo, but from all Norway and Sweden , where its perspective of the metro stations of Stockholm, pure art.
“I love that it is a city on a human scale, you can walk or bike everywhere. There is always something to do all year round.”
The oslo opera house it is his favorite place where he has also taken two of the best snapshots of him, The Scale of things Y The Girl on the roof , the result of a fifteen-minute session where he let his state of mind guide the Photographs.
Another favorite place is Sognsvann with the forest and the lake just 10 minutes from the city center. And if you talk about the country: “I would definitely recommend the Lofoten Islands , which are one of the norwegian crown jewels. Bergen is a culturally vibrant city, discover one of the many national parks such as Jotunheim it is absolutely essential”, Eric tells Traveler.es.
You can follow his work on all social networks, although he is mainly active on Instagram. But he is one of those who goes beyond the screens and prefers the paper photography , "So that the shots can also live off the screen," he adds.
Sorengakaia, Oslo.
Eric is part of Oslogang, also active on Instagram, which is a collective of photographers based in Oslo that show all the best of the city.
His plays with “composition, symmetry, lines and scales”. Above all, urban architecture What Barcode Oslo , a project to remodel the industrial part of the city, the Fornebo airport or Kiasma, the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Also, he traverses countries and cities because you can't stop looking at the spiral staircases of Barcelona , the symmetry of Girona, the magnetic color of copenhagen or the marvelous panoramic views from the air of the Lake Sognsvann frozen. "I think I've developed a kind of muscle memory to have the frame in my head and my viewfinder instantly," he concludes.