Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm, and grew up in a middle-class Swedish household that gave little indication of the raw, transgressive world he would later make his own as a photographer. As a young man, he was restless and uncertain of his direction, drifting through various jobs and […]
Read MoreChrister Strömholm
Christer Strömholm was born in 1918 in Stockholm, Sweden, into a family marked by disruption and restlessness. His parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by relatives, an early experience of displacement that would colour his entire life and art. As a young man, he studied painting at the art academies of […]
Read MoreJH Engström
Jan Henrik Engström was born in 1969 in Karlstad, the capital of the Värmland province in western Sweden, a landscape of forests, lakes, and long winters that would remain a permanent presence in his photographic imagination. He came to photography through a characteristically Scandinavian path: studying at the University of Gothenburg’s School of Photography and […]
Read MoreLars Tunbjörk
Lars Tunbjörk was born in 1956 in Borås, a small textile manufacturing city in western Sweden, a place whose provincial ordinariness would haunt and inform his work throughout his life. He grew up in a working-class family and came to photography through newspaper journalism, working as a press photographer for the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter […]
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