In 2008, Norwegian street artists Pøbel and Dolk teamed up to start the Getto Spedalsk (Ghetto Leper) art project, traveling through the islands of Lofoten to create beautiful pieces of stencil art on abandoned buildings.  The project was intended to redefine urban street art by focusing instead on remote rural areas and drawing attention to the depopulation and decline taking place in the outermost reaches of Norway. 

The past decade has seen many of their tagged buildings torn down, while most of their remaining graffiti pieces have weathered and faded considerably. Despite this, I was able to track down a few of their surviving murals, and that quest became something of a scavenger hunt that led me to unlikely and out-of-the-way areas that I otherwise might not have passed through.  Here are a three of the structures that still stand.

Articles describing the Getto Spedalsk project can be found here and here.