About me

The early days

I was born in 1958 in northwest Stockholm, and I have stayed true to these surroundings.

I got a Kodak Instamatic camera for my eighth (if memory serves me right) birthday and I started snapping away on holidays et c. I had great fun with this camera and it was a sad day when, several years later, it stopped working. Well, I soon got a replacement camera which lasted for several years, but during my teens my interest in photography waned.
My interest was rekindled when, during my military service, I borrowed a compact camera for a couple of weeks.


The present

I started photographing seriously (well, somewhat seriously) in 1979 when I bought my first SLR. I used 35 mm film exclusively until I discovered medium format in the early 1980's. From then on I have alternated between these formats as I have found appropriate. Although I got a compact digital camera in 2004 it wasn't until the spring of 2005, when i bought a DSLR, I began phasing out film photography.


Why I take photographs

All photographers have their own reasons for snapping pictures. I am not a professional photographer, and I enjoy the freedom this gives me in photographing whatever and whenever I want to. I enjoy walking in the woods and I often find I want to capture nature's beauty on film (or silicon). When i attend different kinds of events I try to capture moods, faces, colors et c. I also take pictures of family and friends to remind me of people, places and events.

The camera intrigues me by enabling me to freeze a moment in time. Moments are by nature fleeting and a photograph gives me the possibility to take part, slowly and elaborately, in a moment which has long since passed. I look at faces and try to figure out what people were thinking and what they felt during this moment.

I take photographs mainly for my own enjoyment. Sometimes I show them to other people, but this is not the main reason I photograph. I guess it is similar to some people who write, but usually put the result of their efforts in a drawer, never to be read by outsiders.


Digital photography

I still shoot film regularly, mainly medium format. Nothing beats a large slide for presentation, but more often than not the end product is to be used for the web or as a print. Scanning is a royal pain in the neck though, so I tend to take the easy route and use digital capture more and more.

I have found digital photography to be not all that different from film photography. Image capture is - for all practical reasons - similar, and post processing is also - albeit often easier - similar to what was done in the old days. Any fears of the digital process has so far proved to be unfounded.