I am a Swedish photographer based in London. Having studied journalism, photography and sociology, my work focuses on human relations in a western, contemporary environment.
By using sociology as a frame of research and approach, I find it a good combination when trying to focus on the interaction between man and society.
My recently completed project “Into Oblivion” is an example of my long-term personal work, combining photography and sociology. For three years I worked on a photographic project investigating the politics of ageing in the western world with a focus on care policies for people with Alzheimer’s disease.
Since the project’s completion I have been invited by schools, independent organizations and galleries to talk about the series and my approach to photography.
I also do commissioned portraits and reportage features for the weekly and monthly press such as The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Intelligent Life, New Statesman, Monocle Magazine, FT Magazine, Der Spiegel, Le Monde and I collaborate with humanitarian organisations, cultural institutions and social scientists on academic projects.
I assisted photographer Peter Lindbergh from 2006 – 2009 and I am currently represented by Picturetank in Paris.
James Dodd built this website with Unusual Light.
AWARDS
11.2012 Nominee for PDN 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch 2013
04.2012 Selected to participate in the 2012 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass
04.2012 Selected as one of the Magenta Foundations Flash Forward Emerging Photographers of 2012 with a special acknowledgement from the judges and an overall second prize
02.2012 2nd Price winner of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards (People category in the Photojournalism and Documentary section)
08.2011 The Taylor Wessing Portrait Price 2011 at the National Portrait Gallery (inclusion in the exhibition)
08.2011 Finalist for the 2011 Joan Wakelin Bursary (initiated by the Royal Photographic Society and The Guardian Picture Desk)
06.2011 Selected as a participant for the 2011 Descrubimientos PHE Portfolio Review at PhotoEspana in Madrid, Spain
04.2011 Selected as one of the Magenta Foundations Flash Forward Emerging Photographers of 2011
12.2010 “Into Oblivion” shortlisted for the PhotoVisura Grant for an outstanding personal photography project.
EXHIBITIONS
11.2012 Magenta Foundations Flash Forward Emerging Photographers 2012 Touring Exhibition, Toronto, CA, London, UK, Boston, US
07.2012 The Royal Academy of Arts Summer show 2012, part of group show, London UK
07.2012 ‘The World In London’, The Photographers Gallery, London UK
10.2011 Emerging Artists Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
11.2011 The Taylor Wessing Portrait Price 2011, part of group show, National Portrait Gallery, London UK
09.2011 “Into Oblivion”, Getxophoto 2011 (“In praise of elderly”), Bilbao, Spain
09.2008 “Worldwide Portraits”, part of group show “1000 Regards – tourism responsable”, Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France