The images were impressive but NOTHING could have prepared me for the music - I'm off to do a remix right now - I'm thinking Norwegian Oompah meets Crazy Frog meets Doris Day mixed with a bit of Phil Collins and finished off with a sprinkle of The New Seekers - I see it now and I love it. Why this never occured to me before, I shall never know...

Thanks for giving me the chance to check out the work of Mr Johansen, I think that exposure wise the pictures are very good on his website, I do not think much of the compesitions in a lot of his work though, not over imaginative and to say that he is one of the best portraite photographers in the world is possibly right of the mark and an over powerfull statement, I like the use of coloure in his work and his pictures are a great record of the area of the planet he comes from.

well...his project is to show peoples way of living along the norweigian coast-line. He has some thoughts about how peoples interior comes out different if you live with raw weather as your nabor or not, and he want to show how intimate and personal peoples styling of their own homes can come out. It's about the details...A "die muppet show"-wallpaper with the norwegian king Olav and a war-ship framed on it...when I read his book (sort of a retrospective with his portraints and thoughts) I just started crying. He's captured something fantastic that you don't see that much these days.

Interiour-photography is pretty dull. You just put a Arne Jacobsen-chair in it an the work is done. Ironicly, Rune Johansen have been hired by Wallpaper* Magazine...and he's contributed to the norwegian fashion-magazine "Fjords", that maybe some of you've checked out...

As for the composition-comment, he talks about to just "picture" something, and about "capturing" something more. Some of the things he have found in homes could be enough for a singel photo, but he wants to show how it all hang together...but maybe it's personal to me, since I concider him as one of the greatest photographer, that I've grown up in the kind of enviorment that he have captured, and I have grandparets who live that way...

Sorry that I have questined your statements Ryflice, but to say that anyone is one of the best in the world is a very strong stement, as there are many people who are just as good as each other in any industry that have just not been discoverd. To me to be at the head of portait photography or documentary it would need to be challenging in technique, compasition strength, and possdibly have the wow factor, I wish I had taken one like that or how did he do that. I think hos work is a great record of a lifestyle, well taken technicaly, both the black and white as well as colour, but is he a fashion photographer?. Any visual record of life at every level is iportant for the record documentary archives of how we live today, for future refrence.
The good thing about our times is the fact that we can keep a visual and audio record for future generations like never before, moving away from cave drawings, I am quite sure that good photo, art and digital media will have its place within the top art market in the near future, and it is begining to happen now.

actually sebastion your very wrong re "good thing about our times"you can turn on your computer and your photographs might have evaporated.there is no ARCHIVAL digital sytem thats been developed.colour prints are fading within 20 years.to make a permanent record for posterity nothing beats negatives and archival black and white silver prints.
i love the interiors i think they are stronger than the portraits.

Thanks Shaw, I agree with you,as a photographer I work totaly in traditional formats using medium and small format negative film, that is where the real art is, or is it, room for debate. I start of using negative film, either B.W or Colour and then take it further including the computer as well as other techniques. When I refer to good photographers I think of Avenden, Bill Brant, Herbert List, Jan Saudek,Baily, Sally Mann, Imogene Cuningham, Bruce Weber, Will Mcbride,and many more, but there again visual interpritation is difrent things to difrent people, so am I realy that wrong..or is Ruyfylice, totaly right, I was saying that her statements where very strong in saying that one person is possibly one of the best in the world, but there again he probably is in her eyes. Thanks Shaw and all the best in Paris

WRONG. The best PORTRAIT photographer in the world was HORST.
and his close friend George Hoyningen-Huene. Please more respect.

thanks for telling me bout the site... it's nice and very warm to see. but i agree to say that this is a photographer i appreciated, i like the colors and the objects, but it's just like when i see quite a lot of asian photographers which are similar to his work but put in another context of geography and culture, like the works of wing shya, or christopher doyle, or wong kar wai's films.

my statement was maybe just a cheap trick to get your attention...but I said "ONE of the best", not "the best"...

And I thought maybe we could discuss interiour-photography, cause I personally thinks it's very interesting that Johansens photos get printed in magazines like Wallpaper*.

Another norwegian photographer I'm found of is Benjamin Alexander Huseby, who has a project in here (not the best I've seen from him though)
He had a shoot with Björk on Iceland, which I find one of the most beautifull Björk-shoots (along with the David Sims-photos)