The Barents Region is all about time. To understand time is an condition to understand this region. This is a place where the past, present and the future are very closely connected. One could feel the presens of both the history and the future of the places we visited.
The fishing villages on the coast of Northern Norway is now the home of recently redundant fishing industry workers. People here wants jobs. New jobs. Innovative jobs. Different form those that was before. People from the past are waiting for the future.
Murmansk also wears its history of a Soviet state on the outside. Take the property situation in Murmansk. After the fall of the Soviet union a goal has been to privatize the way people live. This has to some extent been done, yet only single private apartment. The building as a structure, with roofs, stairways, facades and outside areas are still owned by the authorities. Caught between the past and the future. Also here, people are waiting. For the oil. for the new jobs, for the wealth and the cars that is going to come. Sometime in the future.
The Barents is changing rapidly. The Barents Region today is in a state of in between.
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