Someone lost these gloves and I found them. Perhaps they just threw them away. Mostly on the streets. Close to construction sites or just in the gutter. I started to collect them because I saw something interesting in them. Different professions, different people, but who were they? I could only imagine, but I liked what I saw and found. Today I have quite a collection. It became an exhibition.
At Arbetets Muséum in Norrköping
This is a small collection. After my friends got to know about my project gloves started pouring in. I used my Sinar P2 for photography. An old friend of mine.
This is a look into my archive of images from my work with The Swedish Culinary Teams. Seniors and juniors. It is always exciting and a great pleasure to be with and work together with them. At this very moment the teams are preparing for upcoming competitions, but this selection of images is a look into the history. I am sure you will recognize several of the members. After time with the culinary teams many of the talented chefs has done well in competitions like Årets Kock and Bocuse D ´Or. They are the elite of chefs in our country and in the world. In the future perhaps I will show you images from the new teams, but what they are up to on the plates is a well kept secret. Nothing to see for the public , or other teams, before competition.
All training sessions are different, but when timed practice starts it adds a special nerve. Everything is done according to time and schedule.
With assignments like this you will understand that I am having a great time and that I love my profession.
Perhaps, in a way it is. I recently visited Gran Canaria and did not bring my camera. Only my iPhone. That is not a camera! Or what do you say? Anyway it produces images. I don´t like using it is a camera but there are a few things I like. The way to manipulate images is simple and it is quick. There are many apps but I usually use the original in the camera. Perhaps one that is called TiltShift. It does just what the name says, but of course not with with swings and tilts. But it adds blur. If you don’t have a tilt shift camera, or lens, it is as close as you can get. When on the move, with a camera, I usually transfer selected images to the phone. Add some effects and publish. Quick and simple. I think.
Here is a small selection from the vacation. A new surrounding attracts the eye. So I came home with some images from manhole covers in a design we don’t have in Sweden. And now, anyway, most covers are covered in snow and ice.
Has this happened to you too? Just found some old, not used in a long time, USB memory sticks. This is a series of images that was hidden on one of them. Was, they are not hidden any longer.
The stick is named Malmö_Cph 2015-12-13 jpeg. I assume it is images photographed in Malmö and in Copenhagen in 2015. Not too complicated to understand. About 10 years ago. What was I doing there? Visiting my wife who used to work there for some time. Could be, but I really don´t remember. Looks like I was looking down most of the time. Viewing streets through my camera..
Looks like I was doing some street photography. And was having great fun.
It was ages since I wrote in my blog, but I hope I can do that more often, much more often, this year. It is fun!
I have attended the press photo festival several years. Always in fond memory for the exhibitions, workshops, colleagues and the city. A special theme for my own photography has been “door art”. You will understand when you see my pictures. Always lively in color and graffiti. The door knobs not to forget. Photographers tend to like the small things that will catch the eye, but perhaps not what everybody can see.
When ever I go on a journey and bring my camera, I am looking for a theme to explore. In Perpignan it wasn´t difficult to find one.
Could it be? I miss writing and posting here on my blog, so I should try to better myself during this new year. Posting new and old photographs. And writing about photography. Mine and others. I am today a pensionist, but still active and I really love my profession. So here to start this new year is another look in the rear view mirror. Some photographs for Bågar & Glas here in Stockholm. I brought them out from my archive and updated them with some new color. Bågar & Glas is a well established optician in Stockholm.
These images are not new. Honestly I just found them browsing my image files. They are all made with a TS lens on a walk through Old Town in Stockholm. TS stands for Tilt and shift. It works the way my old Sinar view camera did. With swings and tilts. Almost. I just love it.
Perhaps you thought that is only a part of New York City, but it is everywhere. You don´t believe me? I will show you. This is an exercise I did in art school, but I also did it not so long ago. Back then it was in b/w but now it is in color. I didn´t go far to get all the letters. It is great fun and you can do it in many different ways. Like every season. In sunny or cloudy weather.
I made it in English and stopped short of Å, Ä and Ö, but I found them too. A good exercise on your next stroll in the city. Wherever you are. This is Stockholm.
