My new book, “Abandoned – The Beauty in What Remains” has just been published on Amazon and can be ordered from Sweden here and from the US and nearby territories here.

From the new book’s introduction:

I suspect there is a psychological connection to my own abandonment issues which, at least in part, could explain my obsession with the depleted, deserted, and discarded. But mostly, I just find the natural, evolving patina of weathered textures irresistibly beautiful. There are places in this world where time has stopped mid-stride, leaving behind a silence more persuasive than any language can describe or any cryptographer decipher.

Walking into a derelict house, a closed factory, or a vacated mining town is to step into a conversation already underway – one between crumbling ceilings, rotting wood, rusty iron, and the invisible presence of lives once lived or worked there.

My travels have taken me to many such places scattered across countries and continents.

In the exclusion zone near Chernobyl in Ukraine, skeletal villages stand among the birches, where children’s toys still lie undisturbed in abruptly vacated classrooms.

In Bodie, California, once a gold-rush boomtown, sunlight cuts across deserted saloons and wooden storefronts that lean into the wind as if still listening for people who will never return.

A farmhouse in rural Sweden, a decaying warehouse in Lisbon, the remains of a 747 in bustling Bangkok, a silent hotel on the shores of the Salton Sea – I’ve documented traces of humanity that endured long after the echo of voices faded into silence. To photograph these places is to look and listen carefully, to move slowly, and to engage with places and spaces that still seem to retain a faint source of soul.