"One Day in History" by Andrea Gjestvang

A collection of photographs of the survivors and victims of the shooting at the Utøya summer camp on July 22, 2011. Click here to see the gallery.

Andrea noted the following:

We tend to forget survivors, as their condition is often not known until the news cycle is over. Or we assume that time [equals] healing. My goal with this work is to remind people, make them think and feel and want to understand. Even if time goes by and new stories hit the front pages of the newspapers, the mental and visible scars of the survivors of such terrible incidents remain. I want to show that grief (but also healing) comes in different shapes. These youths share the same experiences and to a large extent similar reactions, but the process is individual. Thinking of the terror attack of July 22nd, I want people to remember these youths and not the face of the terrorist.

Source: Sahara Borja, "Photographing The Unspeakable - Andrea Gjestvang’s Portraits of Norway’s July 22nd Survivors," Feature Shoot, August 29, 2013, accessed October 20, 2013, http://www.featureshoot.com/2013/08/photographing-the-unspeakable-%C2%A0andrea-gjestvangs-portraits-of-norways%C2%A0july-22nd%C2%A0survivors/