Morten Lasskogen titles his statement with a declaration of intent: light, he writes, is not a technical instrument but a narrator, a shaper of feeling, and the ground of his working universe. The twenty-second entry in Setanta Books’ bi-monthly series devoted to emerging photographers gives that preoccupation a compact, concentrated form: forty-eight pages, softcover, at 21 by 16 centimetres, with a card wraparound cover.

What distinguishes the book within the series is the arc it traces. Lasskogen began in photography, studying how light behaves inside the constraints of the physical world, then moved into 3D art, where the lessons of composition, lighting and storytelling carried over into a medium where the scene itself can be rebuilt. The images gathered here sit at that crossing point, and the result is a body of work in which illumination is not recorded but authored.

The series format matters to how the book reads. Each instalment is a single-artist volume, and this one follows earlier titles by Luka Khabelashvili, Margaret Durow, Joe Webb, Teresa Freitas and Summer Wagner, among others, positioning Lasskogen within a deliberately international, forward-looking roster rather than a historical survey.

Collectors should note the publisher’s stated edition of 350 copies. A special edition also carries a signed and numbered Giclée print, one of twenty-five, offered in three images: “I Dream With My Heart,” “The Endless Sea” and “Almost Forever.” Published in 2025 in English, the book is a concise record of an artist working fluently between camera and constructed image.