Kent Olsson from Vasteras, Sweden, is an internationally awarded and published photographer who specializes in artistic landscape photography. His style is characterized by the Nordic light and melancholy. The images contain a painterly light and the atmosphere in the pictures resembles more about a graphic expression than just photographs.
He is the family's third generation photographer and develops his interest in intimate landscapes and its details and textures. He studied watercolor techniques by including Bengt Ellis and together they spent many long hours in the Swedish Jamtland Oviksfjallen to try to catch the perfect light.
He has been awarded qualifications by the Society of International Nature & Wildlife Photographers (SINWP).
Kent has had many solo exhibitions internationally of his pictures and he photographs as he previously painted; direct, painterly and straightforward, with no frills.
Kent is also a freelance engineer specializing in digital filters for cameras and film cameras. He has since 1998 its name on several patents in the field, and his technique is used by among others; Disney, Time Warner, Avid, Pinnacle and many primary camera manufacturers and photographers worldwide.