Mania, Fourth edition.

Mania Driven by an attraction for collectors and originals, Kristine Wathne met people with their very own facination. After having researched for atypical people online, introduces Mania the 7 meetings.

Second Edition Self Published

Š 2016 Kristine Wathne

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Mania: Tights

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Mania: Weddingdresses

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3. Harald Haraldsen

Mania: Thailand

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4. Karl-Erik Johansen

Mania: The 50´s era

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Mania: Frogs

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Mania: Princess Diana

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Mania: Elvis Presley

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1. Arve Møllevik realized that he wasn`t the crazy man when someone asked him if he used to wear his ultratight jeans while he slept. After collecting for over 20 years and cultivated his fascination for 80’s clothing, his closet is stacked with over 100 pairs of jeans and unisex tights. The tighter, the better. Shooting wetlookphotos in the shower gives Møllevik an adrenalin rush, modelling or being a photographer himself.

all his weekly pocket moneys on lps and got him an ultimatum: to leave the nest or keep on collecting by himself. He moved by himself, with over 70.000 LP´s organized in an own room dedicated to his collection.

Johansen showed me his last LP scoops while he said with a big smile on his face: ”I don’t feel the need for a wife or having kids - this is my life - and I’m loving it”.

2. Jan Roger Elstad wanted to do something that no other men had done before him. He started collecting wedding dresses in 1991. Over 400 dresses are organized and stored in his pinkpainted basement after time eras, from 1877-2015. It all started when he came over a bunch of weddingdresses that was going to be thrown away. Elstad took care of the cultural treasure a wedding dress is instead of seeing them being thrown in the trash.

5. Cecile Mathisen collects frogs. Her collection is small, but the few frogs in her collection are carefully selected and unique. She thinks most of the frogs in her collection look disqusting, but their ugly appearance and charming look is keeping her from throwing them away.

One of the frogs in her collection stands out from the other ones. The frog is handmade in wooden material by an Chilean sorcerer, and is placed carefully by itself on the living room table rumored to have the distinctive feature to fertilize all women who touches it.

3. Harald Haraldsen travels whenever he gets the chance. He has been to over 46 countries and travelled to Thailand for over 60 times. His living room is traditionally furnished from various continents and cultures, decorated with lightings, souvenirs and humorous elements. The most dominant area of his living room is a large thai temple that´s placed in the middle of the room where he helds funerals and ceremonies.

4. Karl-Erik Johansen is also known as the 50’s man.

Johansen has devoted his entire life and home to his love for the 50’s era. He hates white walls and sterile interiors - you’ll never find mass produced furniture from IKEA in his apartment. By the age of 9, he started collecting LP´s, and as his collection and himself grew older and bigger, his mom got tired of seeing him spending

6. Maria Toftum became obsessed with royalty after Princess Diana died in 1997. She immediately started collecting royality effects obsessively. When Diana still was alive, Toftum had no interest in royalty at all.

Toftum administrates over 20 facebookgroups on her sparetime where she posts daily photos of dead people of royal blood shared with over 10.000 people in the closed facebookcommunity.

7. Ole Elvis Andersen fascination for Elvis Presley grew bigger and bigger since he was 12 years old. Elvis are central to everything Ole Elvis does - in 1992 he got Elvis added as his middle name, as everybody he knew was calling him Elvis. Raised in a deeply religious

family, he was told that the devil would take him to hell if he didn’t stop expressing his love for rock music. He chose Elvis, and rock and roll.

8. Inger Lise Skauge is the owner of the worlds largest napkin collection. 164.000 unique napkins are kept sorted systematically up in her attic, by colour and the napkins subject. Her collection has been growing slowly ever since she started collecting as young as five years old. She said that while all the other children she grew up with used all their pocket moneys to buy sweets and snacks, Skauge chose to buy napkins at the local store.

9. Svenn Iversen is the president of The Coca Cola Collectors Club in Norway. His personal collection has been growing since he started collecting he was at the age of fifteen. 30 years of collecting while drinking coke later, over 10.000 various Coca Cola collectibles and effects are kept exhibited in an own room dedicated to Iversens love and passion for the classic soft drink company.

10. Rolf Ressem shares his passion with over 400 likeminded people in a worldwide pen-collectors club.

He has been collecting pens for the past 9 years, and over 13.000 various pens are stored in boxes and suitcases. The most rare and valuable ones are kept safe and are organized in filefolders. A few years ago Ressem tried to beat the Guinness World Record - they counted pens for over 48-hours, but sadly he was only missing two pens to beat the guinnes world record.

Thanks

Rolf Ressem, Jan Roger Elstad, Einar B. Gilberg, Arve Møllevik, Maria Toftum, Karl-Erik Johansen, Solveig & Sigmund Kittelsen, Ole Elvis Andersen, Harald Haraldsen and Svenn Erik Langaas for being originals and for the opportunity to photograph and meet you. You are the craziest, most inspiring people I have ever met.

Friends and family, art photography teacher Arild Juul, Trafo.no & Trondheim Strakstiltak for support.