From the series: Slash & BurnFinnskogen—directly translated as The Forest of the Finns—is a large, contiguous forest belt along the Norwegian-Swedish border, where farming families from Finland settled in the early 1600s. The immigrants—called For

Portrait of Jan Oddvar Storberget from the Karhinen bloodline. He lives on a remote farm deep in the forest and still milks his cows by hand every morning. Jan was a UN soldier in Gaza for a year and a half, and came home just a little over a month before the Six-Day War in 1967. His DNA test shows he is one hundred percent Forest Finn – the only person in Norway known to be so.

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