Øyvind Jonas Jellestad

My name is Øyvind Jonas Jellestad and I was a Photographer for several years in my younger days.
Although I had a camera from when I was quite young, a Kodak Brownie, there was not much interest in photography there. When I started school as an apprentice, I came to class with a boy who had photography as a hobby. It was the first time I looked through the viewfinder on an advanced camera and I was completely captivated! This was my world, and I decided more or less right away to buy such a camera. Fortunately, we had full pay when we went to school, so I could afford to buy my first real camera, a Ricoh Singlex.
The story about why I chose to start as a freelance photographer, can be found in Cori Amato Hartwig's interview with me Living in Color on this page.
I have published two books When the Crowd Cries and The Man Outside the window
Samples from the books are shown on this site.