The Swedish Document - Photos covering the Swedish essence 2009

My parents had a small farm with cows and beef-cattle, they made a good living through hard work. Today the barn is empty and quiet, only used as a storage. Small agriculture’s, like this once was, hardly exist anymore.

Ingrid Svensson

PEOPLE

In the countryside in the south of Sweden, this is where I grew up. I still think of it as the perfect place to be a child, this was my safe world and it partly made me to who I am today. I remember summers as endless, filled with bare feet, shadows under the big trees and the daily chores at my parents small farm. I became a mother to little baby Iris in June 2009. She will have a different childhood from me, but I wish that she will feel as lucky as I did, growing up at Lövhults Lillegård.

My Brooklyn in Göteborg

Jessica Lundgren

Freelance photographer and teacher who is back in hometown Göteborg after some years on the road. My favourite subjects are the human being, its environment and to be able to tell a story.

Could you call second-hand an industry? It is a big thing in the countryside in Södermanland. And there is always a good chance to make a find.

Malin Erkkonen

Jag är inte en fotograf, även om jag gått min beskärda del av fotokurser och haft min tid i mörkerrummen, (och har en systemkamera i garderoben.) Jag animerar, illustrerar, bildbehandlar, bland annat. Jag bor inte längre där, men har flyttat närmare och bor nästan på gränsen till södermanlands län. Min familj bor kvar. Jag tänkte använda mig av fotoprojektet för att återupptäcka det gamla och även hitta nya platser. Jag vill få en anledning att resa tillbaka då och då.
http://www.minneya.com

Closed!

Tomas Ek

Working with bookproductions in a printing house with prepress, press and bookbinding as sales- and marketing director. Former musician. Few things make me feel better than taking a nice picture and develop it in the old fashion way on a Baryt paper. When it comes to photo I am an autodidact. I live in Värnamo.

Malmö is an old industrial town which has undergone a transformation into a modern city in just over a decade. Remainders of the past can still be found though, scattered everywhere. The shipyard “Kockums“ was once one of the city’s largest employers – today only small bits still remain. Large parts of the vast areas have been taken over by other activities. The old dock ramp, for instance, has now been partly rebuilt into a famous outdoor skate park - ”Stapelbäddsparken”.

Katja Sund

I tend to forget those small important moments in everyday life. The camera lens helps me to remember, so I have something to tell my children, about them and life in general.

Boländerna: the industrial area in Uppsala - by night.

Julie Rocco

b. 1982. I take pictures of images in life that are not always that obvious or maybe too obvious. - Wether I see the photo inside my head or through a lens. A naive style mixed with deeper thoughts behind.
http://www.julierocco.com

Underground Industry

Martin Salzmann-Erikson

I was born in 1977 in Västerås, Västmanland. In profession, I am a specialist nurse in psychiatric care and also a PhD-candidate in caring science studying caring in intensive psychiatry. I like people, life and relationships and find the combination of these very interesting which also reflects in my photography. I try to catch a naturalistic perspective in peoples everyday life and their interactions with the others, both as a researcher and as a photographer. As an antagonist from this perspective I also like shooting miserable environments.

Mr Industry. Alfred Nobel.

Lars Sjöqvist

The stillness of the forest gives me fuel, personalities fires the flame. In Värmland you live close. I am working as a photographer at Värmlands Museum, freelance press/magazine photographer and run ute.se.
http://www.ute.se

Crops of Lakshmi

Mikaela Larm

Educated at Biskops-Arnö, School of Photojournalism. Living in Stjärnsund, a small community in southern Dalarna. World traveller and inner traveller. Photography for me has always been about cathing moments of beauty, of connecting inner passion with surrounding circumstances. Last years my photography has come to be about mans relation to nature and the cirle of Life.
http://www.mikaelalarm.se

Swedish electricity anno mid 19th century - hydroelectric power. Once, before 1951 when the mighty gorge Harsprånget at the river Luleälven was dammed, this magnificant river had rapids that was roaring so loud it enticed artists from far and beyond to paint and photograph it.
Today this river and many other are tamed and silent. The only sound are from the turbines at the powerstations.

Fredrik Ludvigsson

In my photography I chase the feeling of pensive restrained-melancholy-happy in the almost always so scenic and sometimes so barren landscape of northern Norrbotten. I live in the little village Puoltsa outside the town Kiruna and that is almost as far north you can travel by road in Lapland. This is where I work, often at the same places I try to visit a little less frequently but always ending up not doing. The sometimes desolated impression of this area is not always true, it babbles of life. The viewcamera is a tool and excuse to discover and find out whats behind the next hill.
http://www.fredrikludvigsson.com

Conquest of electricity. On the outskirts of Sundsvall

David Schreiner

When photographing I enjoy working with all different kinds of projects. Most importantly though is to create images that are different. Different by the way the are perceived. Different by the way they create a reaction. When people feel my images rather than to see them I am happy.
http://www.davidschreiner.com

The developements of the industrial town of Norrköping.

Setareh Yusufi

I’m Setareh, I come from everywhere and I don’t call myself a photographer. Ever since 2006 I’ve become much more serious about my photography. In my head there are many visions of perfectly executed photographs, but I don’t fully grasp all the technical bits, yet.

This was a booming saw mill industry until 1925. The quay was built in mid-1800s. Recession and centralization led to many saw mills along the northern coast of Sweden closing down. Nowadays, it's mostly summer houses and sailboats around the area of Furuögrund.
Furuögrund, Byske, Västerbotten

Paulina Holmgren

I’m a left-eyed photographer born 1975 in Byske, a small town right by the sea, and practically raised on a sailing boat in the Bay of Bothnia. I studied at Gamley School of Photography in 1995-1996. Photography takes me around the world, but home will always be Skellefteå in Västerbotten. I have a fiance and a five year old daughter. We have a big house by the sea and a summer house on a small island. This is where I find inspiration and harmony. I have a background in arts and design, but photography was too powerful to resist. While still working at a swedish record label I started freelancing as a photographer which grew to a full time business in 1999. My clients are usually ad agencies and magazines. I also do exhibitions and books. I use photography to visualize both my own and others stories. My main focus is people and I love shooting in daylight and real situations wether I’m doing commercial, advertising or editorial photography. I always come back to thoughts like “What will I do when I grow up?” But I think I have to realize that photography will always be part of my life, my work and my passion.
http://www.paulina.se

In certain areas of the holiday island Öland it's not only the human tourists who have found the best beaches.

Rita Michelsson

I speak 4 languages fluently, 2 tentatively and I can understand 3 more languages. After 11 years as a translator I got tired of words just escaping me. I've always preferred pictures anyway. With my studies of art history, painting and art photography I like to say I am a wannabe photoartist, striving to combine my need for escapism with the necessities dictated by reality. I stranded on Öland in 2005 and I am still deeply in love with this captivating island, it's magical light and big skies.
http://www.lunaproductions.se

Waste

AnnaCarin Isaksson

Photographer, teacher and boheme who lives on an island. Looking for what lies beneath. And likes theatre, art, music and a good dance.

Residence of PayEx owner

Jonas Valthersson

Freelance photographer born in the fall of 1974 and raised on the Swedish mainland. Moved to the island of Gotland 2004. I've been photographing mostly analogue since 1997 but recently i bought a small compact digital camera and for this project i use only that one. Photography for me is to capture my experienced feeling of a favourite moment, for others and the coming generation to take part of. Photos also has some sort of meaning, just study them...
http://www.bildfoto.com

Green smoke

Arvid Krantz

Music, images, pictures, colour, shapes, art, web, humor and time vampires follow along the way.
http://swedishdocument.net

How many people have passed this door to get to work?<br />Today, shut down and abandoned . (Bollnäs)

How many people have passed this door to get to work?
Today, shut down and abandoned . (Bollnäs)

Philippe Rendu

For me photography has always been something special and something I love doing. A passion. My comissions is very different, and it is my goal as well as my strength, the ability to adapt myself to the circumstances and bring out the interesting / beautiful in all kinds of motives. The assignments consist of, among other things, to photograph businesses and entrepreneurs, bridal couples, children, landscapes and nature, advertising, forestry machines and playful pets. I was born and raised in France. Since 1994 I live in Hudiksvall in Hälsingland. I have my studio in Hudiksvall, but also work in other places (Stockholm, Uppsala, Gävle, ...).
http://www.philippe.se

New brick mill of <em>Vålbacken</em> In use from 1906-1961. The factory produced 7,5 million bricks a year.

New brick mill of Vålbacken In use from 1906-1961. The factory produced 7,5 million bricks a year.

Marielle Andersson

Jämtland has my heart. Everytime I try to move it calls me back, here I find the peace to create. I studied photography at Brobygrafiska, Sunne and found my true passion there. I've decided to dedicate my time to pictures from whatever technique they will form and think of photographs as small windows - into worlds were everything can happen.
http://www.marielleandersson.com

Also a factory can be beautiful at night

Sandra Westman

I'm a freelance photographer, who also studies Photo and Video in Blekinge (Sweden). As far as my photographic style goes, I try to think outside the box and interpret in my very own way. I'm trying to capture that little extra in every shot.
http://www.sandrawestman.net