{"id":23,"date":"2022-09-03T00:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T22:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2023-11-19T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T15:22:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/?page_id=23","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Oslo-based j<\/u><\/span>ournalist and photographer Alyssa Nilsen started out as a performing musician. Upon finishing her studies in music at Stange VGS, she formed a booking company with friends, Xiabalba, arranging concerts with big national and international metal acts, and letting local bands fill the support slots. This turned out to be quite the successful formula, and they eventually also took on other arrangements and festival jobs in their home town.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After moving to Oslo in 2006, she worked as the Managing Editor, photographer, and music journalist for Musikknyheter.no<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alyssa then relocated to London, England, where she worked as a published freelance journalist, stringer, band photographer, and recurring guest at BBC Radio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2019, Alyssa relocated back to Oslo, where she works in music and media, and has even published an urban travel guide for Oslo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bands she has interviewed and shot portraits of range from Michael Bubl\u00e9,<\/a> Sting & Shaggy<\/a>, Imagine Dragons, Suede, The 1975, Jimmy Eat World, G\u00e5te<\/a>, Aurora<\/a> and My Chemical Romance, to Slipknot, Band of Horses, Biffy Clyro, Fleet Foxes, and the stars of Scandi hit TV-series Beforeigners<\/a>. Her work has been featured in, among others, Dagsavisen<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, <\/em><\/strong>Scan Magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (including cover features<\/em><\/strong><\/a>), The Ocelot and other magazines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Clients who have purchased and published her pictures include Magne Furuholmen (A-ha\/Apparatjik)<\/em><\/strong><\/a>. Imagine Dragons and Ticketmaster, and her photos were used as wallpaper of now closed Oslo venue Bushwick<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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ABOUT ME Oslo-based journalist and photographer Alyssa Nilsen started out as a performing musician. Upon finishing her studies in music at Stange VGS, she formed a booking company with friends, Xiabalba, arranging concerts with big national and international metal acts, and letting local bands fill the support slots. This turned out to be quite the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alyssanilsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}