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| Karethe Linaae |
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| Liv Ullmann - July 1990 |
Karethe was a friend who lived quite a few years ago in Vancouver and was involved in the film industry. She would come to our weekly Thursdays at the Railway Club for lunch. We had a friendly group of writers, artists, photographers, poets and many lovely women who were edcysiasts. Whenever anybody would see me with Karethe they would invariably ask me, “Who is she?” She had that kind of presence. She now lives in Ronda in Spain. I would do anything to photograph her again.
Periodically in my ocio (a Spanish word that is a tad more negative than leisure as an ocioso is just a plain lazy person) I look at my extensive files. Today I made the connection that in my 83 years of existence I have only photographed two persons who were Norwegian. Karethe and Liv Ullman.
My favourite photograph of Ullmann is the one at the bottom right. That meant it was my third exposure of a total of 8 with my medium format RB-67. When I faced her she told me, "Alex don't ask me to smile."
Whenever I look up her files at first I cannot find them. The reason is that I have two separate two-file drawers for writers. Before I photographed her I read her excellent autobiography Changes. She wrote a second one years later called Choices.
And because my author files are in alphabetical order she is between Mario Vargas Llosa and Vancouver poet Michael Turner.