ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Horizontal Displacement
The concept of Archimedes' principle is that an object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. In Horizontal Displacement the horizon is photographed from an open drifting boat facing due south. The camera as a tool to register movement becomes a part of the movement it is mapping. Semifast exposures gives unsharp renderings in rough sea and more defined images in calm sea.

Where J.M.W. Turner supposedly tied himself to the mast to experience the storm, the camera is tied to it‘s tripod while the conditions are recorded. A dynamic portrait of the horizon is made.

AUTHOR
Ole Brodersen is a Norwegian art photographer who works with staged landscapes. His most known series “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.

The forces of nature are natural phenomena always present in a landscape, beyond human control. Ole Brodersen‘s work is dedicated to unveiling this presence.

Brodersen‘s photographs was last shown at the Soprafina Gallery in Boston; recommended by the Boston Globe. The New Yorker and Harper‘s Magazine wrote about his last show in NYC. His works has been acquired by private and public collections in Norway, Sweden, Serbia, Malawi, the United Arab Emirates and USA.

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