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Last night I got so fired of the fantastic windy sky and the moon whispering secrets to me here in my french little village so I pulled out my companion with a torch. I got reminded of my old photography-professor Obie Oberholzer from South Africa and decided to go out and shoot images in his style. I will never reach Obies caliber of humour or perfection in threating colours but I hope I might reach his level concerning life-spirit-haphazardism. Such crazy, vibrant, funny character is hard to find theese days. Obie is probably South Africas most famous photographer, with 7 books published and a hugh amount of important work (customers…
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Sunnes Statoil
Idag hade jag ett udda uppdrag fรถr Calle och Linda pรฅ Statoil i Sunne. En annons i det lokala bladet om ett pangerbjudande pรฅ deras mack. Jag funderade kring temat Statoil, mack, bensin, biltvรคtt, korv…det mรฅste ju vara glatt att komma in pรฅ en mack? Det รคr inget mystiskt djupt och konstlat i att marknadsfรถra en mack, nรคe, hรคr gรคller det att tรคnka glatt och positivt, gรคrna lite David La Chapell (alltsรฅ, jag kรคnner hรถgaktningsfullt vรถrdnad fรถr Chapel, han รคr helt bรคst) men รคndรฅ fรถrsรถka hรฅlla det enkelt och utan mycket utrustning. Inga meddragna studioblixtar eller sminkade modeller. Jag ville tรคnka lite i Chapels banor och hade kanske kunnat regissera…
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Happy new year London 2005
I was only bringing my little Dimagex50 (which I normally never get along with apart from the filming) on this very special evening when I was about to meet my friend Corin from South Africa which I had not seen for 3 years. My choice of camera was partly due to wanting to be free and light and not think in terms of images for once. But I realized, that with Corin my brain goes PHOTOGRAPHY and not even the heaviest full-format camera would feel heavy to carry with her in my surrounding. She just makes me see so much. My choice of camera luckily didnt matter this evening anyway,…
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Min vackra familj Julafton 2005
Pappa drรถmmer om att fรฅ vara bonde igen. Drรถmmen sitter delvis i en rรถd, nyinkรถpt traktor. Vilken symbolik. 20 รคr skiljer sig mellan portrรคttet pรฅ vรคggen och kvinnan i soffan. Skillnaden? Luggen kanske? Pรฅ nรฅt sรคtt lyssnade vi pรฅ varandra i รฅr. Julaftonen blev intim och nรคrgรฅngen. Vi flรคtade in varandras drรถmmar och delade pรฅ varandras tankar. Sen spelade vi Cranium med Johnsen till 03.00 pรฅ morgonen.
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Girls with Guts
Tvรฅ av mina gamla tjejkompisar frรฅn Lofoten-tiden, Vera och Kristin har spenderat det sista halvรฅret pรฅ Svalbard. Svalbard verkar ha gett de dรคr tjejerna mersmak fรถr det kalla รคventyret fรถr nu รคr de pรฅ vรคg att korsa Svalbard pรฅ skidor. De sรถker sponsorer, sรฅ har vi nรฅt att ge dem borde vi sponsra detta tuffa รคventyr. Vi kommer definitivt att fรฅ se mer av dem, kanske kommer de bli big walls-klรคttrare eller Nordpols-besรถkare. Theese crazy girls from my time in Lofoten are on their way to cross Spitsbergen on skiis with start in april and they are looking for sponsors. If we have anything to give them we should. Good…
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TUAB
Det hรคr projektet gjorde jag i uppdrag รฅt TUAB (Torsby Utveckling AB) med Anna รถhgren som AD och ร sa Jernfeldt som stylist/makeup. Det var fantastiskt kul. Orginaltanken var ”ungt, svettigt och sensuellt” men kanske blev mina hรคnder fรถr fria dรฅ fรคrger tonades ner och modellerna fรถrvandlades till utomjordiska balettkreationer, slรคkt med Gollum (detta projekt plรฅtades innan vi trรคffade Gollum). Kommentarerna blev iallfall mรฅnga och alla inblandade kommer att minnas detta arbete lรฅng tid framรถver. Frรฅgan รคr om du skulle vรฅga flytta till Torsby efter att du sett dessa bilder? Faktiskt sรฅ skulle jag vilja gรถra om samma uppdrag en gรฅng till, idรฉen รคr genialisk. Det finns sรฅ mycket att hรคmta…
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Light
I was passing the fairytaly Fryken and realised that the lake was covered in gold. Its a truly rich country we are living in.
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Pregnant woman, another saint
I have never been pregnant, but pregnancy is probably one of my favorite motives to photograph. It is something about feeling complete, magic, fullfilled, or if nothing else stuffed. I was happy I was able to catch her, she was one week over time. Katrin is not an obvious saint, and perhaps and because of that she is one. First time I met Katrin was 8 years ago and she was roving a boat in a harbour. She was really one of the faster rowers I ever seen. Thats one of the bigger memories I have from that time. Katrin rowing a little boat fast as if she would be…