Henrik Bonnevier Analysis

Henrik Bonnevier is a Swedish s Photographer.Hes worked for alot of major companies such as Condé Nast Traveller, Bon Magazine, Gourmet, Toyota, IKEA, and many more.He photographs most nature / adventure, still life and for advertising. 


 In 2008 Henrik embarked on a journey to the north of sweden for 100 days to document the untouched waters in the area of seven national parks and fifteen Sámi villages. The images from the trip were said to appear in a book about the project and a exhibition. In a interview about the project Henrik Disclosed the hard ship and brilliance of the project. He also states in the interview that hes dream is to work for the national Geographic because of the love he has for taking pictures of nature in its naturalist form.The full interview is below.

100 Days in the North Of Sweden

Here are some of the photographs he took out there.

Although Henrik Specialises in a lot of photography areas i am looking particularly at his still life work, This picture for example is one of my favourites of his work I love everything about it from the background watercolours to the com placement of the still life objects.This Photograph was for a interior design firm called 'Between walls'. A interior design stylist named Camilla Krishnaswamy actually designed the shoot and produced this background technique which is called 'Colour Drip' which is from one of many of the company's 'Watercolour' range.

Its quite a contrast to have this work after the work before as in the work before everything is in its natural form and not stylises the only technical aspect is the camera shots being extreme close ups and the com placement of the fish whereas this shoot is completely organised and posed and everything is well thought about before the final image is taken,

To create this shoot the background would have been created first to do this i think Camilla used watercolour paints and mixed them with a lot of water so that they would drip and bleed into each other, secondly the table was arranged i think the table layout took inspiration from the paintings of Paul Cezanne where there is often a cloth draped over a table. The layout of the com placement is perfect everything fitting together in the space.The colours used on the table link in nicely with the colours of the watercolours,although there is a mixture of colours the colours seem quite neutral in the sense that they aren't bright or dark just in between like baby colours. And finally after evaluating everything the photograph was taken here are some pictures from the photo shoot.

 Photographs found here

The colours are what gives this piece a calm and peaceful feel  as this is a commercial photograph for the wallpaper design , it links in moods for the wallpaper and therefore suggests its target audience or place to put this wallpaper. 

In my opinion gathering the moods it portrays id feel obliged to put this wallpaper in a nursery room/child's room or maybe a bathroom as since it calms it would be a nice thing to take in whilst having a relaxing bath.

This piece has been framed in a wide shot with the chest being centred slightly to the right this is effective because it lets the viewer view the wallpaper more.Tools and equipment t used in this composition would be paint brushes a studio and a camera.

Overall i think this is a really nice and effective way to advertise this wallpaper and the photograph is very beautiful.