About Elias

About Elias

Bergen / Worldwide

Since 2014

Since 2014

A photographer built for slow travel.

Landscape and travel photography for magazines, brands and collectors. I go to fewer places, stay longer, and come back with pictures that feel like the place rather than the postcard.

What I believe

Light rewards patience. I plan for weather, not for postcards.

Based in

Bergen, Norway

Working since

2014

Countries

31 and counting

Every series

Printed & editioned

I grew up on the west coast of Norway, where the weather changes five times before lunch, and learned photography on long walks with my grandfather’s old rangefinder. After six years on staff at a travel magazine I went independent in 2014. Since then I’ve photographed in 31 countries for editorial clients, tourism boards and outdoor brands, and built a handful of long-running personal series that I print in small editions. I still work the same way: one place at a time, as slowly as the job allows.

Where I work · Two ways

Booking 2027

Close to home, far afield.

a river running through a valley between mountains

Western Norway · Home ground

The fjords, islands and mountains I grew up with. Most of my personal work starts here, and I run small field workshops in Lofoten and around Bergen twice a year.

red and white suv on road near snow covered mountain

Worldwide · On assignment

Editorial and commercial work in 31 countries so far, from Patagonia to Kyoto. I travel light, usually alone, and plan every trip around the season and the light.

Published & commissioned by

  • Terra Quarterly ✦

  • Wayfarer Journal ✦

  • Nordlys ✦

  • Field & Fold ✦

  • Arctic Route ✦

  • Atlas Review ✦

  • Terra Quarterly ✦

  • Wayfarer Journal ✦

  • Nordlys ✦

  • Field & Fold ✦

  • Arctic Route ✦

  • Atlas Review ✦

  • Terra Quarterly ✦

  • Wayfarer Journal ✦

  • Nordlys ✦

  • Field & Fold ✦

  • Arctic Route ✦

  • Atlas Review ✦

By the numbers

2014 → 2026

Twelve years.

8

Personal series in print

8

Personal series in print

4,000+

Frames in the licensing archive

4,000+

Frames in the licensing archive

31

Countries photographed

31

Countries photographed

12

Field workshops run in Norway

12

Field workshops run in Norway

Elias Vane photographing in the mountains

“I don’t chase the famous view. I go back to the same places until they stop posing, and photograph what’s left when the crowds and the good weather have gone home.”

Elias Vane

Photographer

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a black and white photo of a mountain covered in clouds

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