Petter Hegre is a Norwegian photographer, most famous for his nude photography

Photography

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 of women.

Biography

Hegre studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography

Brooks Institute of Photography

Brooks Institute is a system of two for-profit private arts colleges based in Santa Barbara, California and Ventura, California, owned by Career Education Corporation. Formally known as "Brooks Institute of Photography," Brooks Institute offers four majors, two certificate programs and two...

 in California

California

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 and worked in New York

New York

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 with Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon was an American photographer. An obituary published in The New York Times said that "his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century."-Photography career:Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish Russian...

 before returning to his native Norway

Norway

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. He received the "Photographer of the Year 2001" award at the 8th annual 'Erotic prizes" in London

London

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. He went on to publish six books and have his work exhibited internationally.

Hegre-Art, his official website, was launched in 2002 as Hegre-Archives. It underwent a substantial redesign in December 2005, coinciding with the name change.

Photography

On 5 August 2004, Hegre launched 'The New Nude' which was published by Global Media Publishing.

Books by Petter Hegre

• Marketa, 2006: foreword by Clifford Thurlow
  Clifford Thurlow
  Clifford Thurlow trained as a journalist after failing to get a place at Cambridge and wrote his first book at age 23. He has been described by Penny Wark of The Times as "one of the UK's best ghostwriters."...
  
  
• 100 Nude Models, 2006
• 100 Naked Girls, 2004: foreword by Clifford Thurlow
• Wild Shaven Angel, 2003
• Luba, 2003: foreword by Jack Gilbert
• Russian Lolita, 2002
• My Book, 2000
• My Wife, 2000