I was recently back in Oslo making portraits of orchestral and choral conductors that take part in the Norwegian conductor’s program (Dirigentløftet/Talent Norge/Sparebankstiftelsen).
The sessions were held inside the beautiful Opera House. As a lover of architecture, it was a treat to have the textures and shapes of this iconic building as my backdrop.
Here are a few samples from these sessions.
The talent program for young conductors from, or based in, Norway (Dirigentløftet/Talent Norge/Sparebankstiftelsen) recently hired me to make new portraits of their current roster of talents.
The sessions were held at Sentralen in Oslo. Even with such a cool location, it was still a real challenge to make one location work with no less than 10 distinctive individuals.
Here are a few samples from our chamber music like sessions.
I had the pleasure of doing a studio portrait and “lifestyle” session with chief conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera, Han-Na Chang, recently.
This session continued our collaboration from last year, when we made a series I called “Han-Na Chang in Trondheim”.
All these images are now the visual backbone of her website and press material:
https://www.hannachangmusic.com
I have now switched to an all Leica-setup, and I am delighted with how this system works for me both on location and in the studio. Like everything, it has its quirks but the gorgeous image fidelity makes it all worth while. I enjoy that the images coming straight out of the camera is so close to where I want them to be, the editing is more about tweaking than completely rebuilding the image file.
Our planned “conductor on stage and in action”-session sadly had to be postponed due to the Covid-situation, but will hopefully happen later this spring.
Gear used:
Leica SL2s
Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-90mm/f2.8-4 ASPH.
Leica Vario-Elmarit-SL 90-280mm/f2.8-4 ASPH.
3x Profoto B10 studio strobes with various light modifiers.
I had the pleasure of photographing the chief conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra & Opera on the streets of (exactly) Trondheim this fall. In the spring of 2022 I will capture her in action with the orchestra as well as doing a studio portrait session.
A quick group portrait of the Trondheim Vocal Ensemble, after the performance of the Christmas Oratorio. When you have a backdrop as grand as this one, I wanted to incorporate as much of the surroundings as possible. That led to this somewhat unusual portrait at 18mm.
