an interview | part 2

What scares you the most ?

darkness, in the sense of.. not living.
be it death or just standstill in life.

that there are places or times {concerning death certainly a time}
somehow 'out there' in all our lives, where there are.. gaps.. darkness,
where i or we, might loose our way.

i fear that for me, for my loved ones, - for mankind on the whole;

that we don’t use life in the manner that we truly should. 

that we are so blind sometimes.

Tell us a weird fact about you ? 

ha! i love that .. *smiles*

um.. i have something, roughly translated called 

associative movements, which my mum the psychologist says ought to 

disappear at about the age of four or five
{at which i can conveniently put it right back on her, raising me. *smiles*}.

this means that i, for example, turn my head when i turn the 

steering wheel of a car {i am also speed-blind so you should all be very happy 

i don’t have a drivers license.} i have made quite a few people laugh, 

and my baby sister very anxious, innumerable times over the years 

when i spill yoghurt, expensive lotions etc etc as i turn to look at something.

  

What is your definition of beauty ?

soulfulness. 

If you could create the perfect camera, what features would it have ?

time-travel possibility, 

- & a special, optional setting for unpredictable flaws,

like light leakage or random grazes that would 

take me by surprise every time and that could be saved
into personal recipes or workflow.

Do you recommend any websites for photoshop tutorials ?

i don’t do them much online myself so that’s hard, but.. 

i like sanna’s photoshoprecept. 

it’s in swedish though and that google translate button 

is just flat out hazardous. *smiles*

Do you read books about photography ? If you do what’s your favorite ?

i don’t, or not so much about photography, come to think of it.
i’d rather read or look really, at images,
so photo books of that kind then.. 

i have a few, but the favorites are still on my wish list; 

’on verra bien’ & ’les amies de place blanche’ by swedish 

photographer christer strömholm, 

’architecture’ by hiroshi sugimoto, ’backstage dior’ by roxanne lowit,

jerome gautier’s ’chanel, the vocabulary of style’,

mike disfarmer’s ’disfarmer : the vintage prints’, 

’seen behind the scene’ by mary ellen mark, 

sally mann’s ’the flesh and the spirit’ & many, many more .. 

What is your favorite photo taken by another photographer ?

oh, now this is just torture ! *smiles*

seriously, it is impossible to just choose one..!

.. but if i’m gonna really try to narrow it down, 

it probably would have to be one of sally mann’s photos of her children.
i feel so close to her vision somehow, 

- & many of those photos could be from my own childhood,

so almost anyone from her series of ’family pictures’ 

or ’immediate family’ series.

don’t make me choose. pretty please. 

*smiles*

What is your favorite photo taken by you ? 

almost equally as hard to choose, as i see my own photography

much more as a journey, and i leave the images behind somehow. 

also i am so self-critical and find it hard to enjoy my ’old’ photos as i tend to 

just see the flaws and what i would have done differently now. 

perhaps that is why i prefer to move forward instead. 

.. but i do like ’roots and wings’

which is, in a way a really simple self portrait,

but for me it has something to say about me. 

i like ’unison’ & ’n° 68’. 

both from a shoot with friend marie olson nylander, 

for their bit of mystery. and those come close the 

kind of photography i’d love to do more of. 

i like ’behind the wings’,

a portrait of my friend dennis getting ready for stage,

- & becoming lucy.
i love that i got to be there for that and do a series of portraits.
and that one in particular because that face is really.. his. 

i like some of the photos of my loved ones.. 

but that could also be because of my love for them

of course, sometimes it’s hard to tell..

i really like the ones i converted into black and white

from the a/w11shoot for swedish brand spira.

i had just gotten my new camera, 

the evening light was amazing, and lina as

stunning as ever. 

Do you think it’s hard to be unique and have your own style in photography ? 

How do you manage to stay creative ?

the hard part about that is the same as in life itself, i think.

sometimes it’s a challenge to stay you, you know?

.. but no, not so much with my photography.
there it seems i have more determination & less insecurities
than in other parts of my life.

i believe in my language & my voice when it comes to photography, i think,

- & if, or should i say when, there are things surfacing that could mislead 

or delude me, i literally talk to myself, and simply say;

keep following your own vision.

that is so important, i think. it’s key.

creativity is another matter..  *smiles*

.. but i think perhaps i am blessed with quite a lot of creativity

in the sense that it is not often that i don’t have ideas
or inner images to draw from.
for me the frustration lies rather in not having access

to a person or a place to realize the idea, 

- as i preferably want to jump right in as i think of something.

You take a lot of black and white pictures, why is that ? 

simply because i love black and white photography!

*smiles* perhaps for its timeless feel.. 

that being said, in my own work, - i actually most often
’let the photograph decide’.

i really try to find the time to experiment with every photo i edit, 

- & sometimes a photograph, when converted into
black and white just feels right;
like that was the way that photo was supposed to be. 

and sometimes i feel it before i even click the shutter, 

in the very moment;
that this is gonna be a black and white one.

{part three}

 mer om min syn på retuschering, 

mina dröm-modeller, 

- & misstag jag gjort, i 3e delen..
 {1a delen finns precis här.}

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