Frode Sandbech Series Portfolio

lgallagher

April 10 2009
22 comments

Name: Frode Sandbech
Age: 31
Home town: Oslo, Norway.
Equipment: Canon
First Camera: Pentax ME

Why did you start shooting photos?
I always liked looking at pictures ( I am not much of a reader..). Don’t really know why I started shooting.. Its because I wanna freeze a moment and capture that in the best possible way. I had my first photography class when I was 12, but I didnt really start shooting before I was 17. And then started working with it at 24.

How did you get into shooting snowboarding?
Snowboarding was my passion, and I wanted to shoot that and follow the evolution of the sport.

Who and what influences your photography?
People that are pushing themselves and theyre photography are very inspiring. In snowboarding Vincent Skoglund has been the man. Also Cole Barash is pretty much on it nowadays.

Explain these photo series. What were you thinking? How did you come up with the idea? What were you hoping to show?
Usually I work out a bunch of ideas for snowboarding photos, but there is mostly time to make only one good series throughout the season. I have one going on right now that I hope I will get finished for next season magazine. It is fun to make those and I think they pushes me a bit.

Coolest place snowboarding has taken you?
Each trip is usually nice in its own way. I had a lot of fun and a crazy good 12 course dinner in China!

Where have you been this season and who have you shot with?
I have been around in Europe, contests, Absinthe, Pirates, two sick weeks with Gigi and Zac Marben, trip to Morocco. Then I had a little accident and had to stay home for a month..

Advice for aspiring photographers:
Shoot a lot, have fun and keep on trying out new stuff.

22 Comments For This Post

burton Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

fresh.

iwillmakedinosaursdie Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 3:04 pm

so they’re not only dope riders but dope photographers too

TylerOrton Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Frode, you just keep getting better. these photographs are so
inspirational and some of the most innovative pictures i’ve ever
seen.

Huckleberry Hart Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

Such cool lighting. Kudos.

Kenny Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 9:38 pm

Frode’s got unique eye for photos, really inspiring

ajk Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

do you have a life? seriously like everything i look at you have commented a bunch of times

drewboy Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 10:34 pm

wow ive never seen anything like that before.
create and adapt

iwillmakeiwillmakedinosaursdiedie Says:
April 10th, 2009 at 11:36 pm

yeah there can’t be any possible way for you to find time to ride between all of the time you spend on transworld leaving your “core” comments

Renoi Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 11:11 am

torstein with a rome board ?!?!??!??

woo Says:
April 11th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

hell yeah those landscapes were so good and is the other series called “i have 20 million megapixels” just kidding this shit is sick

Veggie B Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 3:05 am

Du rocker Frode!
Litt mykji svart tomrom i dei kveldsbildane syns e, men den konkis-serien e jo heilt genial!!

lukewarmcrew Says:
April 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am

Stale is SO sick!!!! Just like the Curtis brothers, Stale and Frode, doing it right!!!

KellyO.o Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 11:47 am

O.o damn

Norway Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 1:35 am

Torstein was first on the Norwegian and then the European Rome team before DC got more serious and claimed top-to-toe. The pic is old.

Jim Stoner Says:
April 15th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

what is the medium used to create these paintings?

O'Tool Says:
April 16th, 2009 at 11:04 pm

yea i hate that iwillmakedinosoursdie kid a lot

Darren Says:
April 19th, 2009 at 3:56 pm

Wow. Am I the only one who thought they were lame? The Iouri shot was cool, but apart from that Just.. overproduced, way too much flash, no focus on the details. Like.. pretentious photos for non-snowboarding media.. they’re good photos of architecture (more like scaffoldings), landscapes and colours but if I saw them in a snowboarding magazine I would just skip over them. They seem cold and artificial, I’d like to see more feeling and attention to the riders’ style/tricks.

I guess this is the direction of snowboarding photography - bigger, more directed and less personality. My personal favourite photog is Rob Mathis

shredface Says:
April 26th, 2009 at 4:59 pm

what kind of camera is that, if that is a camera and not a crop? i’ve only seen one other photographer use that camera and that is stuart klipper. hes a fine art landscape photographer. the affect is pretty incredible