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Fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø was awarded an Emmy in 2011 for his direction of a series of short films, shot for the website of the The New York Times Magazine. The series, 14 Actors Acting commissioned by Kathy Ryan, was acclaimed as a “new approach”, but the Norwegian photographer claims he simply “dabbles” in film.

Sundsbø’s photography career has been meteoric.

Four months into a course at the London College of Printing, he attracted the attention of Nick Knight, and became his assistant for the next four years.

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Now he’s a regular in Italian Vogue, Visionaire, and W magazine. His commercial clients include Chanel, Hermès, Nike and Yves Saint Laurent and, outside the fashion world, Röyksopp, Friendly Fires and Coldplay have all chosen his work for their album covers.

Sundsbø first branched out into moving images in 1999, after i-D magazine’s founder and editor-in-chief Terry Jones, suggested it.

The first film that he shot was a collaboration with designer Alexan