Jonas Jellestad

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

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I was born in 1953 in the worlds most beautiful town, Bergen. It is the capital of the west coast in Norway. After several years in different cities, I am now back home.

My formal education is as a Lithographic printer, all though I wasted some years at school just to please my parents who wanted med to go to the University. Mostly I was engaged in politics, as a left wing socialist. The Viet-Nam war was going on and everyone was protesting, in Norway we had the EEC-debate and voting in 1972.

It was a different society back then. But I am still a left wing socialist even if I vote for the Norwegian Labour!
I started with photography when I went to school as a printer. Some years after I finished working as a printer I started as a free-lance photographer and graphic designer. I started to work with silk screen, and in the mid eighties I began working with music, first as a promotor in a night-club, later as a manager for some bands. I even produced a record.
I am “tone deaf”, and if I play the guitar and sing (which I sometimes do when I get drunk), people held their hands for their ears. This may look like a handicap, but it isn´t. If I really like a band, people tend to like them too. I have never had one single gig that failed!
Yes. I have done what I liked to do, the most of my life. So I have had, and still has, “One hell of a life” (a song from Katell Keineg, which I also has worked with).

  • Work
    • Retired but still not dead
  • Education
    • Lithographic Printer