Jonas Wettre was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1972. He studied photography in Gothenburg and Stockholm, and printmaking at Biskops-Arnö in Bålsta, Sweden, the Bergen National Academy of the Arts in Norway, and at the University of South Florida in Tampa Bay. Between 2002 and 2012 Wettre worked in the Steidl design and pre-press departments, and is currently a freelance designer and creative retoucher in Ljungskile, Sweden.