Poetry and Photography, Edited and Curated by Anja Høvik Strømsted (2013), 2013 ART BOOKS WANTED International Award, Best Photography Book Nominee
June 2011: A couple of poetry students decides to put together a collection of international poetry and photography, without knowing exactly how to realize it, as a magazine, an online project or a book. The students are the Norwegian poet Anja Høvik Strømsted, and the Danish poet and translator Andreas Vermehren Holm. They are calling the project ‘Cut Off Places’. The name came from Anjas old blog that was founded years earlier to share the experience of island, travel, poetry and the poetry’s ambivalent relationship with the travel. The name of the blog came from Claude Faîn’s, from Vincent to Theo, “cut-off places set adrift”. Cut Off Places finds its way to the many channels of cyberspace for art and poetry, to collect work that all together could approach the title word. Karley Knight is helping out to find photographers. And an advisory board connected to the Creative Writing course and the Photography department at Gothenburg University is available. The project develops to wanting to be a 400 pages anthology including work by poets and photographers from the whole world. The book designer Maria Seipel comes into the picture. Everything is beautiful and messy. When school is over Anja continues to edit and curate the book. And in 2013 the book is an Art Books Wanted Nominee for Best Photography Book and very close at being published. Now it is here for those whom the project might amaze or confuse.