Brodersen strives to go beyond simply recording the factual view and tries to convey the experience of being in a landscape. In "Horizontal Displacement" the horizon is photographed from a boat adrift. Semifast exposures gives unsharp renderings in rough sea and more defined images in calm sea. Where Turner tied himself to the mast to experience the storm, the camera on tripod are registering the conditions. The resulting images, are materializations of the physical processes at work. They are not images of the landscape, but rather traces of its movement. Analogue work, no post processing.
Ole Brodersen is a Norwegian art photographer who works mostly with staged landscapes. His work 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. Brodersen‘s photographs was last shown at the Scandinavia House in New York; his participation supported by the Norwegian Consulate and mentioned by the New Yorker and Harper‘s Magazine.
