For a couple of month’s I’ve been trying out Fotomoto, an online service that make’s it possible for me to easily offer high quality and fine art prints for sale. Just a couple of days ago they launched the fin arts choice and finally I think I can offer some selected images as limited prints. Check them out here, and if you’re interested in another of my images contact me for pricing.
During The 5th Global YES Summit, Rework The Work, I was following the participants from The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) around. Rework The World was a chance for all if the earlier and new participants to meet and build an even stronger network. Here are some of the images from the day’s in Leksand, more can be found on my Flickr.
The last couple of weeks I’ve been working with the Swedish Institute and YLVP. Mostly I’ve been broadcasting their lectures live via Bambuser, but I’ve also done some photography during my time there. Here are some of the pictures, more can be found on Flickr.
The Young Leaders Visitors Program (YLVP) is an intercultural leadership program with focus on social media as a tool for positive change. The program invites young opinion-makers from Sweden and selected countries in the MENA region who are actively working for social change in their respective contexts. To follow the program visit www.YLVP.se or use the #YLVP on Twitter.
When I first started with photography it was all digital, I’m that young. The cameras was crappy, even worst than the iPhone camera. I think that there’s something beautiful in that. There was a total digital hype for the cameras, even though it wasn’t even close to being a decent alternative for the analogue cameras. Back then I REALLY was a technology freak, more interested in the technology than the story-telling. I think these technology changes has a really interesting effect on things. As always when you leave one way of doing something, you are forced to think of why you’re actually doing it.
I had never actually been working with analogue photography, of course I had come in contact with analogue cameras, but it was never my ambition to work as a photographer. I was studying to become something in digital media, possibly web design or motion graphics. But when I got my first camera during my studies I was hooked. Instead of being all about aesthetics, which I think most design is, I found a love for the real in photography.
I was born into a new generation of digital photographers. Breed into a life of Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. Something that I think is amazing with that generation is the fearless attitude towards doing things in a new way. A lot of the people who started early with digital photography always had to hear that it can’t compete with analogue. Of course it couldn’t, but it was the ambition to advance photography to what it is today that was interesting.
I had one of the earliest digital cameras and in that camera I fell in love with photography. Because I was able to take as many photos as I liked I felt really free. Analogue is a bit scary in that sense. If you want to work in a experimental way it’s almost impossible to finance it when your working analogue as a young photographer.
Unfortunately a lot of times there’s an insane focus around the technology of things. Earlier it was all about analogue vs digital, now it’s RED vs D-SLR. This is insanely boring. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE NEW TECHNOLOGY, but I hate the fact that the technology get more focus than strong story-telling. The foremost ambition should always be to create something that touches people for real, not something that simply is cool or looks amazing. Those things does not live long.
Working with digital photography really has some great benefits, but also some really negative effects. It’s really easy to get caught up in the all digital world, creating photoshop-photos, which I really think is one of those things that we will laugh at in the future, thinking it was done with crappy technology. Another negative thing is taking thousands and thousands of photos, and maybe not even stopping to think about what you’re actually trying to express.
A couple of months ago I had that feeling. That was when I picked up my analogue camera, which I hadn’t touched since I studied creative photography about 5 years ago. It was a great feeling. For every photo I took I really had to stop and think of what my ambition with it was. As a moment-photographer that was a really great experiment. I think it makes things a little bit clearer for me. I have my Canon 5D Mark ll, it’s often too heavy to carry with me and when it’s with me I feel like I have to take images. With the Olympus OM-1 that was collecting dust, I really feel that I can have it with me at all times. A great benefit of the analogue camera is taking photos in a different way. Instead of focusing on the tools, this is what discussions around new technology should be about. The willingness to try new things to advance your already great photography.
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In The Forrest I’ve detained the magical quietness that surrounds the forrest on a misty night. I’ve been traveling Sweden to capture the images that expresses the beauty in the dark and silent nature. When the mist and darkness meet and create the most fascinating mood.
A picture of my dear friend Linda, she’s on her way to a picnic at the Eiffel Tower in Paris 2009.
In Bird City I’ve imprisoned the freezing of time in a big city. A feeling that the people has left the city, and you can’t stop yourself from wondering what has happened? Bird City captures Stockholm in it’s quietest moments, as if the world had ended.
In Roads I’ve travelled Sweden and France to find places and moments in time that resembles each-other. Roads imprison when french meet swedish, in time and environment. The images detain a moment of silence when the world meet and create a symbiotic place.
A beautiful picture with amazing light and environment, it was taken on a street in Bordeaux, in France 2009.
