stairs – JENNY JACOBSSON

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‘THE ASCENT OF OUR DESCENT’ – imagining the effect our actions have on our environment

Just imagine what would happen if we continue like we do, and the sea levels rise.

Just imagine our coasts and their cities, whole islands and island nations, flooded. And with them ecosystems, entire species of plants and animals, in risk of endangerment when the ocean is claiming victims. It takes so little. Less than I personally had imagined. And it’s the result of our human-induced climate change. We are causing this risk. Isn’t it time for more of a global consequence thinking? We are all placed on this small planet. We only have the one. It’s about the choices we make today. We can not postpone acting.

‘The ascent of our descent – I’ and ‘The ascent of our descent – II’ are highly connected to the reflection about our environmental paradox I created in ‘The incongruity’. They are all part of my series ‘Parallels’ and can be VIEWED IN FULL SIZE ON MY ART PORTFOLIO SITE.

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I’m so proud of and incredibly fortunate to have gotten the chance to work with the team behind these two images. When minds alike meet up there can certainly be sparks flying! Love you guys. And thank you.

photography | JENNY JACOBSSON
floral designer | SISSEL WILLBRO of FRÖKEN BLOMMA
hair stylist | JENNI WIMMERSTEDT
model | NAZANIN ZAREI
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Portrait in existing light

I’d like to share with you news, updates, fun stuff, hair tearing moments, or whatever comes up from my life as a student at Fotoskolan Göteborg which is the photography school I’m blessed at being at full time from this autumn and four terms forward. We started September 5th which is almost a month ago (sorry for being so slow), but better late than never, right?

The first assignment we got was to use each other in the class as models and to go out and take a portrait using only existing natural light, and if you wanted, a reflector. I had a great day together with my new and awesome classmates Morten Brix and Josefin Olander, and I’m impressed of how well they did 🙂 Here is my shot of Josefin, where I wanted to capture the movement of the scarf on a very windy and grey day.

Soon more posts from school, so keep an eye over here. And don’t forget to keep updated on my work on Flickr. See you soon!