There are few landscape photographs in Petersen’s body of work. His acute, tight, focused approach to a specific object rather than a broader context seems at odds with the requirement of the genre. The photographed landscape becomes, in Petersen’s work, the transposition of an interior landscape, presenting itself as the sudden appearance or materialization of a feeling. The series From Back Home, shot on locations around his childhood territory , is filled with representations of harsh and wild nature. This is more a personal document than a purely objective vision, a “pre-framed reality,” as seen in the solitary shadow cast by the photographer, or the glass screen of a windshield. However, in From Back Home, Petersen says: “I never address Värmland, but the landscape, and nature in general. For me, it’s less normal for me to go for a walk and become attached to a landscape. […] But I’m more and and more interested by that, and today I do quite a lot of them.” (p. 74)
Anne Biroleau
BOOK
Anders Petersen (par) Christian Caujolle
Collection Juste entre nous
André Frère Éditions
2013
EXHIBITION
Anders Petersen [photographies]
November 13th 2013 – February 2nd 2014
BNF Site Richelieu
5, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.anders_petersen.html
Anders Petersen, To Belong
November 8th – January 11th, 2014
Galerie VU’
58 Rue Saint-Lazare
75009 Paris
France
http://www.galerievu.com
