Collection: Magne Kalstad

Magne J. Kalstad, started photographing with an SLR camera in 1967. He moved to Trondheim and studied at NTH in 1969 and then had very active photography years until he submitted his diploma thesis in 1975. In addition to his own art photo projects, he delivered freelance to Adresseavisen and did photo assignments for the Ship Model Tank at Tyholt and for several departments at NTH. This period ended with an exhibition of 10 large pictures from Strinden's brickworks, which closed down that year.

After his education at NTH, it became a "regular job", and from 1982 until 2019 he was a business leader and chairman of the board at a high level in a number of companies at home and abroad, including as director of Bergens Tidende and Handels- og Teknologi-sendsanding several years at the embassy in Tokyo.

During this period, the activity with camera and darkroom was on and off, but in 2009 participation in the Morten Krogvold workshop in Vågå was the start of the current active photography period, with subsequent participation in a number of workshops with well-known photographers in addition to Krogvold, such as Bjørn Opsahl, Greg Gorman, Ralf Gibson, Julie Pike, Agnete Bruun, Massimo Leardini and Helge Skodvin.

Since 2019, Magne has worked with the art photo series "Gjenskinn" where he moves in the borderland between reality and abstraction, executed in his own photography technique.