Kjell Brustad

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 Incidentally, in The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the word brain has been replaced by heart: "It is only with the heart that one can really see".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 abou...

Solo exhibitions:
2010 Gallery Tonne, Oslo
2011 The Norwegian Forest Museum, Elverum, Norway
2011 Farseggen, Lillestrøm. Norway
2012 Gallery Kikutstua, Oslo
2022 Secret Gallery Wärmland Sweden

Juried collective exhibition:
2022 Romerike exhibition