{{Short description|Norwegian photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}{{Infobox artist|birth_date=14 October 1970|style=fashion photography|notable_works=''14 Actors Acting''}} '''Sølve Sundsbø''' (born 1970) is a Norwegian fashion photographer based in London.<ref name="BOF">{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/solve-sundsbo|title=Sølve Sundsbø is part of the BoF 500|website=The Business of Fashion|date=15 January 2015 }}</ref>
== Career == Sundsbø was born in Norway in 1970 and came to London in 1995 to study photography at the London College of Printing.<ref name="BOF"/> He left college to work as first assistant to British photographer Nick Knight.<ref name="BOF"/>
He regularly works with publications such as ''Italian Vogue'', ''Love'', ''Visionaire'', ''V'', ''Interview'', ''i-D'', ''The New York Times'', ''Chinese Vogue'', ''Vogue Nippon'' and ''W''.<ref name="BOF"/> In 2012, Sundsbø collaborated with ''W'' magazine, creating and exhibiting an installation of his film "The Ever Changing Face of Beauty".<ref name="WMag">{{cite web| url = http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2012/03/solve-sundsbo-transforming-human-figure/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120219015246/http://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/2012/03/solve-sundsbo-transforming-human-figure| archive-date = 2012-02-19| title = Sølve Sundsbø's Ever Changing Face of Beauty: Fashion: Wmagazine.com}}</ref>
Sundsbø's work has been in numerous exhibitions. “Beyond the Still Image” was exhibited at the Palazzo Reale in Milan as part of the 2018 Photo Vogue Festival in collaboration with Vogue Italia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.it/news/vogue-arte/2018/11/15/solve-sundsbo-palazzo-reale-milano-photo-vogue-festival|title=Sølve Sundsbø a Palazzo Reale. Inizia il Photo Vogue Festival|website=Vogue Italia|date=15 November 2018 }}</ref> "Rosie and 21 Men" was displayed at the Shoot Gallery in Oslo in 2013. The images from the exhibition were published in a catalogue, "Rosie and 21 Men," which followed his previous catalogue, "Perroquets," produced in tandem with his solo show from 2008 at Gun gallery in Stockholm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://non-format.com/rosie-and-21-men|title=Sølve Sundsbø – Rosie and 21 Men|website=Non-Format}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stockholmdesignlab.se/perroquet/|title=Perroquet – Stockholm Design Lab|website=www.stockholmdesignlab.se}}</ref> Sølve also photographed images of the Alexander McQueen archive for the catalogue of the “Savage Beauty” retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Alexander_McQueen_Savage_Beauty |title=The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty |website=www.metmuseum.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121017040953/http://www.metmuseum.org/research/metpublications/Alexander_McQueen_Savage_Beauty |archive-date=2012-10-17}} </ref>
Sundsbø has photographed advertisements for fashion and beauty brands, including Giorgio Armani, Chanel, Cartier, Gucci, Mugler, Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Yves Saint Laurent, Hermes, Guerlain, Givenchy, H&M, Lancôme, Estée Lauder, Sergio Rossi and Boucheron.<ref name="BOF"/> Additionally, he has created short films for Chanel, Gucci, Lancôme, LOVE, NYTimes, Nike and SHOWstudio. His NY Times piece titled ''14 Actors Acting'' won an Emmy Award in the New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture category at the 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.premiere-heure.fr/news/all/emmy-awards-solve-sundsbo|title=Premiere Heure|first=Premiere|last=Heure|website=www.premiere-heure.fr}}</ref>
Two of Sundsbø's portraits are held in the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.<ref name="NPG">{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait-list.php?search=sp&sText=sundsb%C3%B8&firstRun=true|title=Portraits - National Portrait Gallery|website=www.npg.org.uk}}</ref>
Sundsbø created the album artwork for Coldplay's ''A Rush of Blood to the Head''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/feb/14/photography.art|title=Sølve Sundsbø's best shot|author=Guardian Staff|newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 14, 2008|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> The image was made into a stamp by Royal Mail in 2010 to celebrate the ten most iconic album sleeve artworks from the last forty years.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/08/coldplay-album-stamp-approval|title=Coldplay album gets stamp of approval from Royal Mail|first=Sean|last=Michaels|newspaper=The Guardian |date=January 8, 2010|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
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