Supercouloir

Fine art photographic print "Supercouloir" by Norwegian photographer and adventurer Tormod Granheim, signed and numbered in a limited edition. The art print is available in three different sizes, printed on Hahnemühle Baryta fine art 325 gsm high gloss art paper.

Edition and size:
110 x 160 cm - edition of 4.
60 x 90 cm - edition of 8.
38 x 57 cm - edition of 12.

Framing:
The 110 x 160 cm art print comes pre-framed with a black strip and art glass, without a passepartout. The smaller art prints are supplied without a frame.
Send us an e-mail at post@m35.no or add a comment when ordering if you would like framing for the 60 x 90 cm and 38 x 57 cm sizes of "Supercouloir."

Background:
Available / unavailable is a dynamic I try to describe with my photographs. This wall has a lot of it. Good skiers reach the bottom of the wall after an 8-10 minute slide from Aiguille du Midi. Average skiers don't reach it at all, unless they hire a guide to help them down the formidable Vallée Blanche glacier, which has its source among the ice at the bottom of the picture.

It's one thing to see it in the camera, but when I first saw the image on screen, I was overwhelmed by how crisp and rich in detail it was. This really needs to be seen physically.

I could have called the picture Devil's Ridge, after the series of needles to the left against the sky. I could have called it Couloir de Diable, after the 850-meter-high white stripe to the left, a line I skied with Tomas Olsson himself as training before our trip to Mount Everest.

I could have called it Gervasutti Pillar, or rotated the camera a few degrees to the right and included Couloir Gervasutti, which plunges down under the enormous cornice balancing against the sky on the right-hand side.

But I wanted to honor the multi-talented Jean Marc Boivin – a base jumper, climber, and skier who pushed boundaries perhaps more than anyone else in his time. Just reading ski and climbing guides and seeing the lines he first did has been an enormous inspiration. Therefore, this photograph must be named after the steep ice line Boivin established in the center of the picture, Supercouloir.