Petter Hegre

Petter Hegre (born 1969 in Stavanger, Norway) is a Norwegian photographer, most famous for his [...] photography of women.

Biography

Hegre studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography in California and worked in New York with Richard Avedon before returning to his native Norway. He received the "Photographer of the Year 2001" award at the 8th annual '[...] prizes' in London. He went on to publish six books and have his work exhibited internationally.

Hegre-Art, his official website, was launched in 2002 as Hegre-Archives. It underwent a dramatic redesign in December 2005, coinciding with the name change. Hegre is married to model Luba Shumeyko and they divide their time between a villa set in orange groves in the Algarve, Portugal and an atelier in the heart of Paris.

Photography

In 2002, Grigori Galitsin launched the website galitsin-archives.com with the assistance of his wife Irina Aleksandrovna Pischasova (originally a MET model known as "Valentina"), a joint project with Hegre. Due to a conflict, Galitsin established his exclusive website galitsin-news.com in 2004, with the former domain confiscated by Hegre. Galitsin explained the matter in a letter to his subscribers. The two also discussed their breakup publicly in the comments section at an adult review site.

On 5 August 2004, Global Media Publishing and Petter Hegre announce the publication of: HEGRE: The New [...] - No. 1 Autumn 2004. This [...] art photography print magazine would be relaunched as The New [...] in the summer of 2005, with Hegre as the creative director and chief photographer.

Awards

2001 - Photographer of the Year 2001 award at the 8th annual [...] Prizes.

Books by Petter Hegre

  • Marketa, 2006: foreword by Clifford Thurlow (featuring Markéta Bělonohá)
  • 100 [...] Models, 2006
  • 100 [...] Girls, 2004: foreword by Clifford Thurlow
  • Wild Shaven Angel, 2003
  • Luba, 2003: foreword by Jack Gilbert
  • Russian Lolita, 2002
  • My Book, 2000
  • My Wife, 2000: by corporate author Svanborg Þórisdóttir

See also

  • Elena Berkova
  • Grigori Galitsin

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