Morten Andersen is one of eight photographers whose work is presented on the portal Norway - the official site. The photographs have been selected by Preus Museum, Norway's national photography museum. Fragments of a total of 40 photographs are shown in the top field of the portal. If you click on these pictures you will get up information on the photographer and his or her photographs that are shown elsewhere on the portal. The project gives Norwegian photographers an opportunity to show their work to a wide audience all over the world.
Biography:
Morten Andersen was born in Akershus, near Oslo, in 1965, and studied at the International Center of Photography in New York. He has worked as freelance photographer, particularly for the music industry, but in recent years he has worked exclusively on his own projects and has had many exhibitions both in Norway and in other countries. He also teaches photography, and is currently working on a new book of images from Oslo.
Morten Andersen tells stories in his works that are based on his own experiences and encounters with people and places. These are not stories with a beginning and an end, but open, visual stories that invite you to enter the image and follow the various paths he suggests, so that you can create your own stories.
Photographs
Andersen’s four photographs are taken from the books Fast City (1999) and Days of Night (National Museum of Contemporary Art 2003).
Fast City #8 (birds)
Fast City is a personal journey through the artist’s surroundings in Oslo during a particular period in his life when he was unsettled and restless.
Days of Night #2 (TV man)
Days of Night #26 (balloons)
Days of Night # 66 (Heathrow airport)
Days of Night is from Andersen’s stays in New York and Tokyo. By mixing images from these two cities he has created a fictitious international city inspired by film noir, detective films and literature. He tells a kind of detective story, in which you can just sense that something has happened. But it is also a story about being a hunter (photographer), and the questions and problems this raises. Questions about searching, seeing, running, dancing, shooting...