Following the tragic Utöya-massacre in Norway last year, I had a brief opportunity to meet and portray Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg right after the funeral of his long time friend Monica Bøsei also known as ‘Mother Utöya’. On a personal level I truly admired his approach with his talks about the need to meet all the hate and violence with even more tolerance, openness and love…
The image received several awards and was published widespread, and someone in Norway must have seen it; One day I received an official, and very unusual, request from the Prime Ministers office asking for a personal print of the portrait. A signed print was sent to Norway and back in return I recently received this…