My name is Hans Jørgen Lindeløff, a Norwegian landscape and fine art photographer living just outside the beautiful coastal city of Fredrikstad in southeastern Norway.

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My photography journey began in 1970, on my very first day of school at Ruseløkka School in Oslo. My father gave me a small Kodak Instamatic 100 camera, using film cartridges with 12 or 24 black-and-white exposures. From that moment on, I photographed everything around me – family, friends, scouting trips and long car rides with my parents.

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A few years later, when I chose photography as an elective at school, I inherited my father's Konica C35 35mm camera. That little camera went everywhere with me. One week we would be out photographing, and the next week we would be in the darkroom developing film and making prints to proudly bring home. I still have that Konica today. It mostly sits on a shelf now, but it reminds me where it all began.

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Today, more than fifty years later, photography is still about the same thing for me: light and atmosphere. I am especially drawn to the quiet hours of sunrise and sunset, and the deep colours of the blue hour. And after a bit of rough weather, when the clouds break and the light suddenly becomes dramatic.

As I often say to anyone who will listen: a clear blue sky is the world championship of boring. Nice for the eyes, not for the camera.

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Having grown up in Oslo near the fjord, and now living on Kråkerøy close to the sea, water has always been a natural part of the landscapes I photograph. Another place that inspires me deeply is the dramatic mountain scenery of Romsdalen near Åndalsnes.

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I take photographs primarily for my own enjoyment, but I hope that when others see my images, they can feel some of the same calm, closeness and good feeling that I experience when standing out in nature with a camera.

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Hans Jørgen Lindeløff
Fine Art Photography
Since 1970