Patti Smith

Per Ole Hagen has taken photos of concerts for twenty years. This has resulted in pictures of more than 2000 different artists, from international names like Bruce Springsteen, Robert Plant, Madonna, Patti Smith, Metallica and Steven Van Zandt, to lesser known artists and bands. In 2018 he was approached by Getty Images, and since then he has been one of their contributors, having been published in Rolling Stone Magazine, Billboard, NME, People Magazine, Guitar Player, Harper’s Bizarre, Forbes and several other publications. In 2019 he won second prize at the Preus Museum’s music photography competition.

Hagen has held numerous exhibitions in Norway as well as Warszaw, Lithuania and Lausanne, Switzerland.