Category: Inspiration

  • Talk at Fotomässan 2015 – ‘THE ROAD TO CREATIVE IMAGES THAT EVOKES EMOTIONS’

    Talk at Fotomässan 2015 – ‘THE ROAD TO CREATIVE IMAGES THAT EVOKES EMOTIONS’

    How to make your creative images more interesting The interest was greater than ever when I walked onto the big stage at Fotomässan Stockholm in November to talk about the road to creative images that evokes emotions, not only showing technique or surface. There were people as far as I could see (< 300) and the…

  • ‘Forty Faces’ – Self Portraiture Art Exhibition at Sandell Gallery

    ‘Forty Faces’ – Self Portraiture Art Exhibition at Sandell Gallery

    Last week the doors opened to Sandell Gallery and the exhibition »Forty Faces«, a fantastic collection exhibition with a motley crew of art pieces themed Self Portraiture. 40 artists, 40 self portraits, different media, and me and my ’The unveiling’ from series ‘Parallels‘ is one of them. “Self-portrait is the only motif that has stood…

  • INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Short Films

    INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Short Films

    As a photographer, or any image maker, you can choose to sit around waiting for inspiration to pop up by itself. Personally, I’m a firm believer that feeling inspired is a state of mind you can teach yourself to find when you need it. So, what can we do to get started? I’m gathering and…

  • INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Digital Illustration Art

    INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Digital Illustration Art

    As a photographer, or any image maker, you can choose to sit around waiting for inspiration to pop up by itself. Personally, I’m a firm believer that feeling inspired is a state of mind you can teach yourself to find when you need it. So, what can we do to get started? I’m gathering and…

  • Talk at Fotomässan – METHODS FOR CREATIVE IMAGE STORYTELLING

    Talk at Fotomässan – METHODS FOR CREATIVE IMAGE STORYTELLING

    Create images with strong storytelling I entered the big stage at Fotomässan Stockholm in November and you can now watch the entire talk online (opens in a new window at Moderskeppet)! “How do you tell a story in a creative image? Why is it important with a location scouting library, what symbolizes different colours in…

  • INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – How to get inspired again and again..? Reflections from my latest teaching class

    INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – How to get inspired again and again..? Reflections from my latest teaching class

    I headed to Fotoskolan Göteborg this week for a full day to talk and teach the class about creating images. The day before I got interviewed by Moderskeppet about my work and I got the question how I approach ‘inspiration’, and if I wait for it to happen before I start to create or if…

  • To tell a photographic story – Musings from this spring’s intern

    To tell a photographic story – Musings from this spring’s intern

    “If you’ve, just like me, been in love with Jenny Jacobsson and her creative and well thought out pictures and stories, for a while, you’ve probably seen the one with a girl in a white dress, covered in pink paint, sitting on a ladder surrounded by cherry blossoms. The image, called “The Burden”, is about…

  • How to frame and hang photo art in your home

    How to frame and hang photo art in your home

    Whether you already have an image for your wall or considering getting one, there are always questions that will arise about how to frame and hang your photo art. To help out I therefore put together a nifty guide, all for free, for questions about: Size Frame or no frame? Glass and alternatives Why a mat?…

  • Online video course for Moderskeppet – ‘CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES’

    Online video course for Moderskeppet – ‘CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES’

    And so it is time… My online video course for Moderskeppet Guld is up and available! Join me for CREATE IMAGINATIVE IMAGE STORIES (Skapa fantasifulla bildberättelser). TRAINING COURSE CONTENT     Create your own fantastical story by following me through my process of creating storytelling photography with my special version of realistic surrealism. I’ll teach you a simple…

  • ‘THE CREATORS’ – Conceptual portrait series

    ‘THE CREATORS’ – Conceptual portrait series

    Since it’s Throwback Thursday I want to revisit, and show you for the first time here on my blog, the conceptual portrait series ‘The creators’. ‘The creators’ is my examination exhibition project, shot and produced during my final year at Fotoskolan Göteborg (Photography School Gothenburg) and exhibited at Gothenburg Film Studios in December 2012. While…

  • 5 essential questions as photographers – Artist talk at Fotoskolan Göteborg

    5 essential questions as photographers – Artist talk at Fotoskolan Göteborg

    I was invited to do an artist talk at Photography School Gothenburg (Fotoskolan Göteborg) yesterday and together we wrote down answers to five questions. When working and living as a photographer sometimes it can be difficult to try to stay true to your own visions and keep your creative pride, thinking that you need to create…

  • Inspiration from the fashion show of Borås Textilhögskola – EXIT13

    Inspiration from the fashion show of Borås Textilhögskola – EXIT13

    Yesterday the journey went to Borås for the fantastic fashion show and exhibition of the textile and fashion graduate design students of Borås Textilhögskola. Not only did I want to support and get a close look at the newest work of Emelie Arvidsson (the extraordinary designer that I shot for last year), but going to…

  • INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Internship at Cooper & Gorfer

    INSPIRATION FOR IMAGE CREATORS – Internship at Cooper & Gorfer

    As a photographer, or any image maker, you can choose to sit around waiting for inspiration to pop up by itself. Personally, I’m a firm believer that feeling inspired is a state of mind you can teach yourself to find when you need it. So, what can we do to get started? I’m gathering and…

  • The Light That Shines – by Sue Bryce

    The Light That Shines – by Sue Bryce

    This is a beautiful and important documentary, made by film maker Hailey Bartholomew and photographer Sue Bryce. A film about Jill, a young woman struggling and fighting cancer, but still finds beauty in herself and in the world. Jill says on her Facebook:   “I hope you all enjoyed this beautiful doco that we all worked so hard to make.…