Wild Strawberries
This is a series of photographs I have chosen to call Wild Strawberries. The subjects, places, and time periods are diverse, most taken between 2023-2025.
Most of the images belong to the street photography genre—images taken of what I encounter while walking the streets. In the streets there is searching, but there is more of finding. Working with the raw image is a dialogue where the original suggests how to work with it, how to approach it and tackle it. Although the subjects may be documentary, the intention is always to pull the image away from the documentary and take it to where it reveals something more. Photography is document and memory, but it is also trace. Trace of the passage of time, of man, of the world. Silent trace also of mystery.
Reality is a torrent, and in that movement instants of beauty, mystery, testimony abound that sometimes I am fortunate enough to capture. The everyday has become invisible through familiarity; photography has the possibility, like all art, of lifting the veil and letting us see or intuit what lies behind.
As for my style, I let things happen and hope that something recognizable emerges for those who see my photos and unconscious for me, like the style of my handwriting.
In Sweden, where I live, we go to the forests surrounding most cities to gather mushrooms, and the best part is when we find bushes that hide wild strawberries. We keep those precious places a secret.
