01About
Bergen · since 2017

A photographer who decides the distance first.

Ines Varrow photographs still life, people and places for magazines, hotels, architects and makers. Four lenses, one daylight studio, about twenty commissions a year.

The photographer at work, camera raised
On a recce · 85 mm · 1.5 m
02About Ines

I started with a macro lens and a pear. Nine years later I still decide the distance before anything else.

I trained as a food photographer in Oslo, assisted on architecture shoots in Copenhagen, and opened a daylight studio in Bergen in 2017. The work now runs from still life at thirty centimetres to landscape at infinity, for magazines, hotels, architects and makers who care what things look like up close.

I shoot with four fixed lenses, grade everything myself, and print the editions in the studio. I take around twenty commissions a year, so each one gets a recce and a proper day.

Based
Bergen, Norway
Working since
2017
Studio
Nøstegaten 58, 120 m² daylight
Languages
Norwegian, English, Spanish
Represented by
Self-represented, prints via the studio
03What is in the bag
Four lenses cover the whole archive

Four lenses, each with its distance.

100 mm macro f/2.8Still life and detail · Fjordlys, Kvist, Leire
85 mm f/1.8Product and portrait · Hald, Svale
24 mm tilt-shift f/3.5Interiors and architecture · Holm, Ørsta
50 mm f/1.4 · 135 mm f/2Documentary and landscape · Kyst, Vestbane
BodyTwo full-frame mirrorless bodies, one always as backup.
LightTwo strip boxes, a beauty dish, a 1 m reflector, black foam core.
StudioA tethering cart with a calibrated 27-inch screen, grey cards, a notebook.
04Recognition and press
2025Nordic Portrait AwardShortlist
2025Svale MagazineCover, summer issue
2024Arkitektur NFeature, 04/2024
2024Norwegian Design CouncilHonourable mention, packaging
2023Kyst JournalTen-page story, winter issue
2022Bergen KunsthallGroup show, 'Near and Far'
08In numbers
0Commissions since 2017
0Countries shot in
0 yrsWorking from Bergen
0Lenses, every distance
11Kind words
01 / 04
“She asked how far away our readers would be standing from the poster. Nobody had ever asked us that.”
Marit HolmBrand director, Vestbane Rail
07Clients and tearsheets
Where the pictures ran
SVALEMagazine
HolmHotels
FjordlysCider
KYSTJournal
HaldGlassworks
VestbaneRail
ØrstaArkitekter
KvistFlorals
LeireCeramics
Form NordFurniture
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Day rate from NOK 14 500

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