On Being Slow

My website is not updated so very often, but I like the process of letting photographs wait in my drawer. I look at them from time to time, then scan the negatives and let the files sit in my computer. After a while I make colour corrections and maybe some retouching. And so perhaps, I put them on the site.

On Torbjörn Elensky's Slow Blog I found this wonderful quote: "Plato writes a paragraph in a book, and decades later, Aristotle writes a comment. Centuries later, Plotin or Cusanus respond. Thousands of years later, Nietzsche criticizes Plato's paragraph; and suddenly Heidegger or Adorno may add a comment, just decades after Nietzsche."

Books

Kid Life is about becoming an adult and shows a period in life that suddenly ends before you really have time to notice what happened. Based on the images, author Sara Gordan has written an essay about her own experiences from the same time.

A Childhood in 51 Pictures contains photographs of my American cousin J’s childhood from when he was born until his high school graduation. It’s also a story about how J and his father carry on through a difficult divorce. Includes an essay by literature scholar and editor Daniel Pedersen.

Lägesrapport från Aniara consists of three essays around the science-fiction epic Aniara by Swedish poet Harry Martinson including my photo essay The Sublime and the Ordinary. It also contains two texts by astronomer Bengt Gustafsson and poet Anna Hallberg.

Becoming Somebody features actors preparing for the stage with an introductory essay by theatre critic and Ingmar Bergman authority Leif Zern.

Famous People

Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Gösta Ekman, Lena Endre, Jon Fosse, Lennart Hellsing, Andreas Kleerup, Gunnel Lindblom, Yvonne Lombard, Henning Mankell, Ariane Mnouchkine, Jonathan Safran Foer, Liv Ullmann, Wim Wenders, Andrey Zvyagintsev