BJØRN CHRISTIANSEN | Photographer

Frequency in blogging have gone down by 100 percent, I am very sorry. From my Google Analytics-statistics I can see that I have lost a lot of followers the past three months because of this. I am not sure if I am capable to continue the frequency of new posts as I did before Christmas. Why? Well, I’ve got a job at an advertising agency, Centerteam Reklamebyrå A/S as a photographer assistant and I haven’t really found time to write about ongoing private projects, but fear not, I am doing a lot of fashion photography in addition to products and editorial stuff I do at work.

In February I covered Oslo Fashion Week (A/W 2012) for Runway Passport doing both runway / catwalk and backstage documentary. My campaign for Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole have been running at both cinemas in Trondheim and billboards around town.

So, what is this youtube/vimeo-video about? Since it was Easter and I had some time off to do private projects, Charite Viken, who I did a music video for in January, and I brought some camera equipment on location and did this little piece mainly just for fun and experimentation shooting moving pictures with a DSLR.
Roomer has it that moving pictures are the thing of the future and I will not be stuck in the past. I like working with new technology and I will not be left behind. I am trying to find my style and find out how the technology works and how I will get the best results that I am looking for. I have received a lot of criticism that both this and my last video with Charite lacked of storytelling and I must agree. There is this third dimension, time, that is more prominent in motion photography than in still pictures and each clip as a in pictures need to tell a story. The discussion for me is more about me to take my criticism and do something with it, or continue as a mere photograph and film pretty and interesting clips based more on composition and detail. My trend is pointing in the direction that I want to do just that, planning the small clips instead of putting together a coherent story and instead let the sound and finish the connecting link.
Regarding the soundtracks for the movies I produce, I can see that there is a violation of copyright law to pick pieces of music artists and bands to use in my videos. I’m just as unhappy when someone tampers with the images I shoot. I can only apologize to all those I have stolen music from and going to steal music, but the reason is that you make so damn good music and it that helps me to set the mood for my moving photos . I have done and will always put the band and artist that plays the sound and the song is taken from.
Enjoy my little moving picture with Charite Viken as main actress and model. If you like the tune, listen to the full length at Spotify.

Past video projects

Charite – In My Head (Official Promo)

Behind the Scenes with Ane Aspén

Carina Velva (Trend Models) – Huldra

Moesgård & Bellevue – A Fashion Story

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Commercial ad for Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Commercial ad for Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole

photo: Bjørn Christiansen, Commercial ad for Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole

It’s been a while since I’ve posted new photo material. The last photo assignment I did before the year 2011 was over, was a job for HK Reklame in Trondheim. They had orders for three images to an advertising campaign for
Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole targeted to recruit new students at their program. The design brief was to shoot three illustrations cut out in colored fabric that illustrated three different children licking their tongue on various cold iron surfaces. The slogan translated into English went something like this “Children need good role models. Become a preschool teacher.” In addition to shooting into textile pieces for use in an animated commercial that would go to the movies. Here is the result hanging around the bus shelter in the middle of town. Also there was made a course catalog with some behind scenes shots making the illustrations. Catalog. AD on the project was Frank Trana, script was done by Hanne Thoresen.

The animation was made by Sondre Nymoen.

If you in a worst case scenario lick your tongue on a cold iron surface, do as the main character, Matti, in the book “Populärmusik från Vittula” by Mikael Niemi. Try peeing on the cold metal surface.

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Cecilie Engebretsen i aksjon på Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Sascha Njaa på Nattergalen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, Bjørn Tore Økland på Nattergalen

Foto: Bjørn Christiansen, David Nikolaisenpå Norsk Fotofagskole

Den siste tiden har det gått mye i fashionfotografering som til tider har tært på nattesøvnen og energien. Det er da det er godt å være ca 90% ferdig med etterbehandlinga av materialet som ble fotografert og man kan sitte litt med beina på bordet, eller ta seg en tur på kafé med klassekamerater eller hjelpe andre med oppgavene deres.

Etter forelesningen i går ble det en kjapp tur innom Japan Foto og for å se på ny kamerasekk til Bjørn Tore Økland sammen med Sascha Njaa før turen gikk til Nattergalen for litt sen lunsj / middag og en kopp kaffe.

I dag har tiden for det meste gått med til etterbehandling av bilder og YouTube og spesielt brukeren PrankvsPrank. Et kjærestepar som har lagt ut en del videoer av practial jokes de kjører på hverandre. Noen mer morsomme enn andre. En av de mer ondskapsfulle er en video de har fra jula 2009.

Jeg har også vært med Cecilie Engebretsen på opptak på Dronning Mauds Minne Høgskole for å fotografere noen arkitekturbilder til en oppgave hun har i forbindelse med fotomaraton-ukene på Norsk Fotofagskole. Hun skulle ha noen bilder med litt psykatrisk sykehus-følelse og stemning.

Straks er det kickboxing-trening og så enda litt mer etterbehandling av fashion-serien min før jeg tar kvelden.