The Lofoten Islands, that's midnight sun and northern lights. Fish and sturdy boats. Grey/black mountains rise from the deep blue ocean high into the sky. At their feet there are small wooden fishing villages where cod dries on racks. Eagles circle above schools of herring, driven to the coast by killer whales. Otters on the rocks chew on the fish and crabs they just caught. The Norwegian archipelago the Lofoten, located above the Arctic Circle, is considered among the most beautiful archipelagos in the world. On this website photographer Eric Fokke shows why.
Let me start 2025 with a selfie. I never take one. Other people do. I drive around the Lofoten Islands with people from all over the world almost every day. Hundreds of them per year. They often take dozens of selfies per day. Per day. The Lofoten Islands are just a nice background for a selfie for a lot of visitors. I always wonder: who on earth is looking at that? Anyway, now I've taken a selfie myself.
Lofoten now
