A landscape photograph should make you want to stand there, not to post it.
Jonas works almost entirely in the shoulder hours — before the light is good, and well after it has gone. He has spent the last eight years photographing the coastline between Ålesund and Bodø, and the high passes of the eastern Alps, mostly on foot and usually alone.
For Ailleurs he shoots the places we write about and, more often, the ones we do not name. About half of what appears here was taken on a walk that had no assignment attached to it.
How he works
Slowly, and with less equipment than people expect. One body, two lenses, a tripod he resents carrying and uses every time. He does not shoot at midday if he can avoid it, and he will wait three days for a forecast rather than photograph a fjord under flat grey.
The rule he keeps coming back to: if the picture only works because of the colour of the sky, it is a picture of the sky. The landscape has to hold up in bad weather or it was never the subject.
What he will not photograph
Anywhere that needs a helicopter to reach, anywhere that requires standing somewhere unsafe for the frame, and any viewpoint that has a queue. The first two are a matter of proportion. The third is a matter of taste.
He writes occasionally, mostly when a place resists being photographed and the only way to describe it is in words.
