Per Fronth (formerly named ''Per Fronth Nygaard'', born 24 November 1963 in

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) is a Norwegian

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

, painter and photographer. Fronth is working with photography as his raw material. Then he creates and digests the photographs as a painter. The themes he shows in his photographs, are emerging as a component in the understanding of his works. Fronth is mainly dealing with large formats. Particularly in recent years he has concentrated on monumental commissions. Fronth has lived for extended periods of his life in New York City, where he also has sold many of his pictures.Per Fonth, short facts
His works are in permanent collections, such as the French Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the Norwegian Sørlandets Art Museum as well as in numerous public collections, such as the

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(NHO), Ekebergrestauranten and

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in the US. He has held several large exhibitions in New York, in addition to

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, Kristiansand, London,

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and Chicago. He has produced several controversial while successful exhibitions with topics such as rainforest people's struggle for their penhagenrights in the Amazonas, Brazil ( "Xingu Chronicles" in New York 1998), the fox hunt in England which is now prohibited ( "Bloodlinjes" in London in 2000) and "Theatre of War" in 2009, which put the spotlight on Norwegian soldiers in

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. In 2009 he was selected to create the diploma for the

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that later the same the year was awarded to US President

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. Fronth is the first photographic artist who has had this task. Per Fronth is a film director. In addition to having won several awards such as PDN PhotoPlus International Conferences Grand Prize and Short Films International Film Festival, both in New York, his

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Ode to a Hunter (2000) and Godiva (2001) have been invited to the official programs of film festivals

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