"Tree" Photograph - Limited Edition of 10

I am a Norwegian photographer working in Norway and Sweden. My photography education is a two-year school in Oslo with subsequent learning in advertising photography.
I have also had the pleasure of being a permanent lecturer at Bilder Nordic School of Photography for 10 years.
Working as an advertising photographer led me in new directions of creative techniques, challenging what we see and don't see. Painters and illustrators have always visualized the mysterious nature of our world with free imagination. I try to capture these subjects with analogue film.
In the book "To See With The Heart" I have collected photographs where I approach form and mystery in a landscape that is vulnerable , only partly protected, and being threatened by development.
In the foreword, the Norwegian author Tor Åge Bringsværd writes: "Many people think that it is easy to use the eyes, but it is not at all. The truth is that we don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. It is the brain that sees - and that chooses what it wants to see. Incidentally, in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the word brain has been replaced by heart: "It is only with the heart that one can really see". And maybe that's how it is if we think about it properly."
To See With The Heart was completed over 5 years. All photos are taken in an area that is less than one square kilometer.
Grant from Arts Council Norway, The Audio and Visual Fund.
Grant from the Norwegian Photographic Fund


The ongoing project "Frost" is a contribution to the climate debate and the ever-present concern about what time will come. WWF's Living Planet Index (LPI)—which tracks populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians—reveals an average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970.

I have collected deceased birds and insects I have found around our summer home in Sweden. They are frozen in ice and photographed in my wife's greenhouse, without artificial light, all within a radius of 100 meters. The first exhibition of the project was also within a 100 meter radius. The exhibition was subtitled "Km0 Art". The Frost project started 7 years ago and is still under development.
In addition to mystery, thoughts about the impermanence of nature and the vulnerability of the ecosystem are included in all the images I create.