Blog 1: Welcome

Welcome to my blog! Although I intended to launch the web page and the first blog installment concurrently, I hope that you will enjoy this belated first post, which I’m dedicating to a brief introduction of this site and how it came to be, and a little about myself.

I have been interested in photography for all of my adult life. I got my first camera when I was fifteen, a Minolta that I still own. There have been periods where I didn’t take a single image, often interspersed with bursts of snapping away, mostly to document events or travel. The resulting images were also difficult to share, and wound up mostly in boxes or later, on a hard drive, mostly gathering dust.

Then came the mobile phone camera and cloud storage, which made it simple to photograph and share the pictures with others on a more or less daily basis. This, in the end, has given me new inspiration.

I started to consciously observe the familiar, things I saw on a daily basis, but viewed now from a new perspective. It was a way to enliven my daily commute, and to share my experience of being out in the city on a bicycle in surroundings which I continue to find incredibly beautiful. The mobile camera became the workhorse, the “real” camera came out for special occasions. Then, in the summer of 2020, I made the decision to let the mobile photography go, and returned almost exclusively to using a camera.

It wasn’t apparent at all that a web page was in the works. I gave little thought to thematic projects at first, the idea was to be present and to capture the small observations that would serve as a visual record of my insights about a particular environment at the moment I was there to see it. That is still true to an extent, but as the weeks and months have passed, I have become progressively more cognizant of different themes that interest me, and have started to choose my subject matter accordingly. It is often a spontaneous observation which then leads me to explore a new theme in more depth.

The content on the web site as it is now, describes the reality of the past year and a half. The world has become small and local during this period, and the photography reflects this in the selection of projects. All of the images were taken in and around Stockholm, with the farthest venture out to the Fjärdhundra area. That is just over an hour by car from the city center.

Because this photographic project, like everything in life, is a continuous process, my hope is that the content shared here will evolve and grow as I continue to evolve as a photographer. As that happens, existing themes may continue, new projects will come, others retired. And I hope the observations I share will be interesting.