Ole Brodersen
Photo: Ina K. Andersen
Ole Brodersen is a Norwegian art photographer who works with staged landscapes. His most known project “Trespassing” explores encounters between man and nature, and is produced in the island society Lyngør where he grew up as 12th generation.
He is strongly affiliated to this place and the maritime elements here dominate his motifs. His father is a sail maker, his grandfather was a sailor and he himself used to row to school. Everyday life in Lyngør is closely connected to and influenced by the sea, which provides substance and background for his pictorial experiments.
After a brief international career as an art director, Brodersen circumnavigated the Atlantic Ocean for a year in a pilot cutter built in 1894. Upon his return he made a gallery on his home island and later pursued photography through assisting the fine art photographer Dag Alveng (represented at MOMA and Metropolitan).
Brodersen‘s photographs has for example been shown at the Scandinavia House in New York; a participation supported by the Norwegian Consulate and covered by the New Yorker and Harper‘s Magazine. His work has also been exhibited in Boston, Los Angeles, Paris, Vancouver and Oslo. Brodersen has sojourned in New York, Prague, Belgrade, Stockholm and Porto. He is a member of Norwegian Society of Fine Art Photographers and Norwegian Visual Artist‘s Association.
In his photographic work, landscapes and the forces of nature that influence them are explored. With that, he tries to uncover something more than the purely optical visual: to capture the feeling of being present in these landscapes, by creating impressions in, with or through movement and time.
Shop art by Ole Brodersen
Edition of 50. Signed and numbered. Digitally printed on 185g paper. 
Photo Ole Brodersen
Time will continue to characterize the landscape, and the experience of being a given place will thus also change over time. This, even though man's natural sensory apparatus is too little fine-tuned to register that it happens. Landscape photography can thus be understood as a communicating marker for changes in nature. And the interplay between human and mechanical optics makes visible not only these changes purely referentially, but also human‘s shortcomings and its consequences.
Ole Brodersen‘s Poor Posters emanates from his Trespassing-series, which explores encounters between man and nature. Man-made objects are placed into untouched nature where their interactions with the elements are recorded.
During five years of work with Trespassing, misadventures have occurred. Being development abnormalities, double exposures or interference by other man-made objects (often boats). These misadventures has resurrected and become Poor Posters. The posters are limited edition digital prints from negatives handled roughly, which were scanned without removing dust or scratches.
