The Swedish Document - Photos covering the Swedish essence 2009

Pike-fishing is fun when you're successful... We scored 45 this day!

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.

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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

The land of possibilities for all.

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.

The dream of love, beauty and youth was there for them to take. It was all about HAPPINESS!<br>Borgholm slott, Öland

The dream of love, beauty and youth was there for them to take. It was all about HAPPINESS!
Borgholm slott, Öland

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

Circus

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

Idyll

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.

20th of November 2009 Anderstorp,<br>Skellefteå, Västerbotten

20th of November 2009 Anderstorp,
Skellefteå, 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

Hiding in the woods.

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.

The Santa in <i>Halla</i> likes kids and has his own car scrapyard.

The Santa in Halla likes kids and has his own car scrapyard.

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

Today, Lund is the only remaining Swedish city where SonyEricsson mobile-phones are being developed. Major cutdowns have struck the company in 2009. Hopefully, the new line of smart-phones will bring SonyEricsson back to its feet.
Watch out Nokia!

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.

We were at the cottage over Christmas eve. Perfect weather, but with sundown at 2PM I didn't manage to catch the rays that day. Following days were a bit grey still it was a dream for us to stay.

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

Top of the morning!

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

To find LYCKAN (Happiness) is probably one of the most primary dream, not only for swedes. I spotted Lyckan in a typical Svensson neighbourhood in <i>Fålhagen</i>, with a lot of villas and houses.

To find LYCKAN (Happiness) is probably one of the most primary dream, not only for swedes. I spotted Lyckan in a typical Svensson neighbourhood in Fålhagen, with a lot of villas and houses.

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

If I ever win the lottery I will buy me a cottage on an island in the archipelago and a boat and an ocean of things from the warehouse with the blue bag.

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

IKEA Flag ship store in Kungens Kurva, Stockholm. Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA 1943 and is now the fifth richest person in the world. He made his fortune from stubborn, hard work and have managed to keep on the right side of infamous Swedish Jante Law. Show me a home in Sweden that do not contain a single object from IKEA. I would say that in Sweden IKEA has a symbolic part in growing up, getting a place of your own with a following nuclear family.

Arvid Krantz

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

”Human beings are to be pitied” - A. Strindberg

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

Home sweet trailer home.

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