Brynhild Bye (born in Levanger, Norway, 1968) began taking photos as a child, fascinated by everything in her immediate rural surroundings, but it was in the 1980´s that the camera became an all important tool as she lay the foundations of her career as a visual artist. During her explorations with the camera, through different jobs, in various places in Norway, she via the lens was introduced to the northern light, the scenic coastlines and the midnight sun. In 1989 she lived in Iceland for six months working in a greenhouse. She travelled to the mountain area of Landmannalaugar, which amazed and inspired her, with it’s volcanic colours. She visited Paris several times between 1987 and 1993, where her portraits of the world turned black and white as she gathered rhythms and structures of the Sycamore trees.

In 1990 she was accepted as a student at The Academy of fine Art in Trondheim, Norway, with a series of colour photos from Iceland. Through her years as a student her experience with video production and video photography influenced her stills work, it still does and often bares witness to her special interest in "motion".

She also did several series of more "graphic photography", based on experimentation in the darkroom some during the months she studied at the Icelandic college of Art and Crafts in 1992. Brynhild graduated from The Academy of fine Art in 1994, as a painter, working with photo based paintings. She has been a self-employed professional visual artist based in Trondheim, Norway since 1995, and has since 1998 exclusively worked with photography.

In 2003 she lived in Bodø, Norway where she worked as a producer and facilitator for Art in Nordland, Nordland County Council. Meeting artists from all over the world gave her the opportunity to take a closer look at the contemporary art scene outside Trondheim. In 2005 she exhibited a body of work from this time called «Beginnings», some of the pictures marked a turning point in her art; a new way of thinking, more narrative with several layers and meanings.