About

About

Signe Christine Urdal is an art and documentary photographer from Stavanger, Norway. In addition to photography she also has a minor in anthropology. This has greatly affected her photographic gaze.
She is, by the acclaimed South African photographer George Hallett described as a great humanist photographer with the ability to “see” the people she documents. We can see this in clear reference to the American photographer`s Amy Arbus and Mary Ellen Mark.
Urdal a poetic storyteller. She has taken good critical acclaim for her ability to communicate other people's lives and the stories they possess.
Sensitivity, aesthetics and humanism are words that characterizes Urdal photographic works.

Urdal got her education in photography from Oslo Photo Art School. She started her career as an assistant to art photographer Dag Alveng. Signe Christine Urdal`s works has been exhibited, amongst others, at the Preus museum, Tou Scene Art Space (ølhallene), Porsgrunn Art Hall and Gallery Sølvberget, etc.
She has for several years worked with various organizations such as UNICEF, the Norwegian Cancer Society, the television campaign "Dream Catcher", Cancer Care Rogaland to name a few.
Urdal often works interdisciplinary in cooperation with other artists in music, dance, stage and visual art.

In the Spring 2008 she participated in The Reunion photography and dance project in collaboration with choreographer Anette Dolva at Tou Scene Art Space, supported by Tou Works and Stavanger 2008 (European Cultural Capital). In the following year The Reunion was shown as a pilot project of the Porsgrunn Art Hall in Skien. Urdal and Dolva received good reviews for this.

In autumn 2009, Urdal was on an artist residency in Berlin, through Stavanger Municipality artist apartment. Here she worked on the two photo projects Berlin Loves you Too and Walls. Both projects are currently under production.