Poppies
Winner at the 15th Annual Black & White Spider Awards 2020
1st Place - Outstanding Achievement in Still Life
About me
My fascination with photography began in childhood, thanks to my father—a skilled amateur photographer who taught me to shoot and print in his darkroom. My earliest photographic experiments were taken with his Hasselblad, followed by a twin-lens reflex of my own. One of my first photo series documented a dead shrew impaled on a hawthorn thorn by a red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio)—a haunting image that marked the beginning of my storytelling through images.
Since then, I’ve moved between photography and painting, with each medium informing the other. Photographs have served as references for my paintings, and my abstract painting has, in turn, shaped the way I compose images. Whether using a brush or a lens, I’m always trying to explore something human, fleeting, or easily overlooked.
I now work primarily with black-and-white fine art photography—mostly digital, but sometimes analogue. My focus is often on the subtle traces people leave behind: objects, structures, buildings, or altered landscapes. These images aren’t documentary, but reflective and personal. I’m not drawn to grand gestures or monuments, but to everyday imprints—the quiet marks people make on the world, which carry the illusion of permanence, yet in time, fade into oblivion.
I aim to tell stories that matter to me—small, quiet stories that might otherwise be missed. If an image stirs a memory, a thought, or a shift in how someone sees the world, then I’ve done what I set out to do.
While I’ve never pursued a career as a professional artist, creative work has always been central to my life. I’ve managed a local government arts department, led a college specialising in the arts, and served as a director of foundation studies in arts and crafts.
I live and work in Lund, in southern Sweden.