The Oya festival is over, and it is a whole year to next time. This year the festival was held in a new location, which proved successful for the audience and hopefully also for the artists. It worked just fine for us photographers too, with good conditions and possibilities for some good shots. Here are my personal favorites from the bands I photographed at the festival. (Picture above: Bryan Ferry’s drummer Cherisse Osei.)

The new venue for the festival this year has a natural amphitheater for the audience, meaning everyone can see and hear what happens on the stage. The two main stages were located side by side, meaning the concerts alternated with seldom more than five to ten minutes in between the concerts. The two other stages, one open-air and one big tent stage, were located a distance from the others, meaning very little sound leakage between them.

Hurula’s drummer Jonna Löfgren)

From a photographer’s point of view, the fact that the main stage was lower than at the former location is a thing that really helps. Also that the two main stages plus the third one all were oriented towards east or north-east, meant that none of them got any direct sunlight. Here are my favorite pictures of the bands I shot during the festival.

Wednesday

Monica Heldal

Morudes, Amund Maarud

The National, Matt Berninger

Hanne Kolstø

Jonathan WIlson

Thomas Dybdahl

Queens Of The Stone Age

Rival Sons, Jay Buchanan

Thursday

Skambankt, Terje Winterstø Rothing

Thulsa Doom

Conor Oberst

Egil Olsen

Daniel Kvammen

Little Dragon

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Outkast, Big Boi

Outkast, André 3000

Friday

Comet Kid

Bloody Beach

I Was A King, Anne Lise Frøkedal

Store P

Hurula, Robert Hurula

Gojira, Joe Duplantier (guitar), Mario Duplantier (drums)

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Obliteration, Arild M. Torp

Mayhem, Attila Csihar, Necrobutcher (Jørn Stubberud)

Saturday

Stein Torleif Bjella

Bow To Each Other, Gunhild Ramsay Kristoffersen

Sharon Van Etten

Nadine Shah

Angel Olsen

Aurora Aksnes

Neko Case

Bryan Ferry

All pictures are © Per Ole Hagen and must not be used without written permission.