Often using my fathers analog SLR camera. After film and photo school in the start of the 1990´s. My career started to take off. My inspiration mostly came from the pioneering American photographers, Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, to mention a few. I love being out in nature and do landscape work, I work
alone, and forget time and place sometimes, patience is probably the most important virtue in
photography. Today I mostly concentrate on my conceptual art works. I had my own darkroom, developed my own film, and created my own black and white prints. Parallel to my Film & TV career, I never put down my photo cameras. In the early 2000´s I started working professionally with still photography for various clients, shooting advertisements, portraits and architecture photography. Having my own photo studio. I started illustrating books from 2003, and created film documentaries for various international clients all the way up to 2018. Today I only work with my conceptual art and landscape projects. 30 years of traveling to most parts of the world, covering war, hunger, and doing commercial work. I really wanted to focus all my attention on my art projects. I now sell artworks to organizations, book publishers and private persons. I have received many international photo awards the last years, for my works of art. My curiosity is boundless, mostly I previsualize certain concepts, in my mind and draw up by hand what I want to create. I strive to make my composite creations as organic as possible. Also telling a story in my images, I go far to make my conceptual works as ethereal as possible.
1991-1993 Photo & Film School (Idefagskolen in the city of Tonsberg, Norway)
Illustrated the books,"The Forgotten People - A journey through Burma's frontier" (author Carsten Jensen. Publishers; Press Oslo, Norway/Aschehoug Denmark, 2004)
Photography for the book; "Heaven and earth." (Press Publishing, Oslo, 2006). Contributed with architectural photography for the book “Norwegian concrete architectural history” (Gyldendal Publishing, Oslo, 2008). Illustrated the book "Mind Gap" in 2012. Portraying the leading Norwegian neuro scientists for the exhibition, and the book in 2012. For the Norwegian Technical Museum. Amongst them, the winner of The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine, May-Britt Moser. My first photo exhibition was held in the Tatler building, Oslo, May to August 2004 , in conjunction with the release of the book "The Forgotten People". Laahnes latest photo exibition, "Fotografier", was held at Gallery Glayground, in the city of Tønsberg, Norway, throughout the month of September 2014.
2014-2018 Operated my own Photo gallery and had permanent artworks on display in a large
house located by the sea in Stokke, Norway. Creating my own prints, and framing all artworks
for clients
2018 – 2022 Living on the island of Koh Samui, in Thailand. Where I have a workshop and a
humble studio in my own house. Mostly creating conceptual works. But also work with high
altitude drone photography of various landscapes. Photographic awards:
American Photo Magazine - World Wide Competition - Awarded Silver in the "Digital Magic" category, 2003. Utsnitt 2002- Annual Norwegian Advertisement Photo Competition for Professionals - Awarded with Silver in the "Landscape" category, 2002. One Eyeland Photography Awards 2018 -Finalist- Editorial/Travel Category. One Eyeland Black & White Photography Awards 2019 -Finalist- Peoples Category. One Eyeland Black & White Photography Awards 2019 -Finalist- Photo Journalism Category. One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Landscape Photographers 2019 Photo Contest – Finalist. One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Still Life Photographers 2019 - Finalist- image: "Frozen Emperor". One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Still Life Photographers 2019 - Finalist- image: "A.F.P". Winner Of The YouPic “Ocean Contest” - June 8 – 2019. Awarded with Silver - Second Half 2019 - Photo manipulation - WPE - International Photographers Awards. Awarded with Honorable Mention in the 2021 edition of the International Photography (IPE) Awards – Category: Nature/Aerial Photography. Image: “Eagle Eye VI”. One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Still Life Photographers 2021 - Silver - image: "A dinner With Eve". One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Fine Art Photographers 2021 - Silver - image: "A dinner With Eve". One Eyeland World’s Top 10 Landscape Photographers 2021 - Bronze - image: "Stranded Steel Whale". Awarded by WPE - International Photographers Awards - 2021 – Category: Photo manipulation:
Image: “A Dinner With Eve” Bronze award. Image: “Forever Kitchy” Silver award. Image: “Flight of the Spitfire” Silver award. Image: “Global Web Roulette” Silver award.
