Ole Brodersen

Photo: Ina K. Andersen

Ole Brodersen is a Norwegian art photographer who works with staged landscapes. His most famous project, "Trespassing", explores meetings between man and nature and is produced in the island community Lyngå, where he grew up as 12 generation.

He has a strong connection to the place, and the maritime elements here dominate his motifs. His father is a sailmaker, his grandfather was a sailor, and he himself rowed to school as a child. Everyday life in Lyngå is closely linked to the sea, which provides both content and background for his pictorial experiments.

After a short international career as Art Director, Brodersen sailed around the Atlantic for one year with a unloading skate built in 1894. Upon returning home, he established a gallery on the home island and then went on to photography by assisting art photographer Dag Alveng (represented on Moma and Metropolitan).

Brodersen's photographs have been shown at Scandinavia House in New York, a contribution supported by the Norwegian Consulate and discussed by The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine . His work has also been exhibited in Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, Vancouver and Oslo. Brodersen has been staying in New York, Prague, Belgrade, Stockholm and Porto. He is a member of the Norwegian Association for Photography and Norwegian Visual Artists.

In his photographic work, Brodersen explores landscapes and the forces of nature that affect them. He tries to uncover something more than the purely optical visual: to capture the feeling of presence in these landscapes, by creating impressions in, with or through movement and time.