Elmer Laahne

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I have been photographing since I was 13 years old. Often using my fathers analog SLR camera. After film and photo school in the start of the 1990´s. My career started to take off.

My inspiration mostly came from the pioneering American photographers, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, to mention a few. Also various surreal classical artist.

Almost all subjects regarding photography, interest me. Therefore You will find a wide range of subject matter and different approaches in styles.

I love being out in nature and do landscape work, I work alone, and forget time and place sometimes, patience is probably the most important virtue in photography. Today I mostly concentrate on creating my conceptual art works.

Hyper realism and also surrealism, shape my other artistic creations, by combining many layers and photos into one image, sometimes building and painting props to merge them into the final image. To tell a subtle story,

I had my own darkroom, developed my own film, and created my own black and white prints. Parallel to my Film & TV career, I never put down my photo cameras. In the early 2000´s, I started working professionally with still photography for various clients, shooting advertisemen...

2 years of Photo and Film school - "The school of ideas" in the city of Tonsberg in southern Norway. (1991-1993)

One year of Philosophical studies at the University of Oslo - 1990

Mandatory Army service 1989 - one year -Infantry - served at His Kings Royal Guard in Oslo, Norway.

College education for 3 years in the city of Tonsberg, Norway (1986-1988)

1976 to 1985 Basic school education - Elementary School all the way up to High School.

2003 - June to August - Images from the book "The Forgotten People of Burma" - at the Tatler Building in Oslo, Norway.

2014 - Exhibition at Gallery Clayground during the whole month of September. Black and white and color landscape art works.

2013- 2018 Operated my own 400 square meters Photo Gallery and studio, in the county of Stokke, Norway. Selling my artworks.