Time Is Flying. Is it just me, or is my brain editing the footage? Lately, I’ve been almost shocked by the sheer velocity of the calendar. Admittedly, I’ve had trouble living in the here and now for as long as I can remember. I’m always looking forward — to the next trip, the next project, […]
I shot this flag hanging in a store window yesterday while walking around the Royal Opera. I was temporarily in Sweden during most of America’s Bicentennial back in 1976. Now, as the absurdly commercialized 250th anniversary is underway, I realize I’ve become more Swedish than American. I don’t feel compelled to visit the USA right […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time looking at this frame I took of an old man in Old Town Stockholm a few days ago – and it got me thinking about how absurdly technical photography gets sometimes. We obsess over corner sharpness, a sensor’s dynamic range, and pixel-peeping until the image is technically perfect. […]
Stockholm Summer 2026 Yesterday afternoon. A woman alone on a bench. Almost swallowed by a wall’s vast paleness. The city moved around her: footsteps, traffic, voices, bicycles. Doors opening and closing. People on their way to people. Stockholm in summer feels indecently alive. Laughter from bars and cafés. Bare legs in the sun. Water glittering […]
While walking along the water yesterday at about eight o’clock, the evening sun was unusually flattering and made me look at this bridge twice before realizing how a beautiful light can make such a difference on subjects that don’t always get the attention they deserve. For the thousands of commuters rushing over it every day, […]
Photography is often a quest to freeze the second, to lock reality into a razor-sharp fraction of time. Yet, the very moment the camera is deliberately set in motion, the ephemeral frame shatters. The world ceases to be a fixed point – it becomes fluid, a raw material waiting to be shaped. Through the Intentional […]
This is Malmö C early yesterday morning. I once had a neighbor who used to ask me why I travel so much. She eventually leaned into the interrogation: “How can you possibly appreciate life at home if you’re never there?” I answered her question with another question: “How can you appreciate your home when it’s […]
There is an undeniable magic to France, but if I am being brutally honest and facing an uncomfortable truth, these last three visits have left me feeling an urgent need to detox. There’s just too many temptations, i.e. too much good food, especially delicious cheeses, related beverages in France. Not all, but most of everything that […]
Paris. Tuesday. Afternoon. The first time I set foot in Paris was at the end of July 1983, during the final stretch of my first of two Interrail adventures through Europe. I was an almost twenty-year-old guy with a head of curly brown hair, on my way back to Sweden after a month-long journey that […]
Sunday. Evening. Reims. Near heatstroke. It hit 93°F (34°C) this afternoon by the time we sat down for a late lunch after our last tasting at Maison G.H. Martel. Our collective sigh of relief we let out in that air-conditioned brasserie probably echoed across the entire dining room. Next to us sat a newly retired couple from […]
Here’s a few clips from where two seas meet in northern Jylland. Where the Skagerrak and Kattegat crash into each other in restless, shifting currents. Where concrete ruins from Nazi-era bunkers are slowly being swallowed by sand, salt, wind, and time. Where pale beaches stretch for miles beneath a vast northern Scandinavian sky. This is […]
Yesterday, I waded out to the point often described as the nearest place on land where one can experience the meeting of two seas – the North Sea (The Atlantic Ocean) and the waters leading toward the Baltic. I’m not entirely convinced that the claim is as precise as the tourist brochures suggest. Geography has […]
Henry and I arrived in Skagen expecting light. That famous Skagen light. The one painters have been chasing for more than a century. Instead, I got this. A vast, rolling cloud formation moved in over the dunes near the northern tip of Denmark, where Skagerrak and Kattegat meet – where the North Sea and the […]
Charlotte took this shot of me in a dive bar along the main drag of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Lahaina is the town devastated by a wildfire a few years back. I came across the photo while looking for the parrot image that the University of Cambridge licensed from me a couple […]
On June 11, 1978, my mother, Solveig “Sissi” Andersson, passed away. A few weeks earlier, I had come home from school at Bancroft Jr High and seen a friend and part-time assistant of my mother’s, Richard Ross, sitting on the edge of the bed in her bedroom at 842 Croft Avenue in West Hollywood. My […]
I photographed this parrot during a ten-day press trip through Guatemala several years ago. I believe it was taken near the Mayan pyramids of Tikal, or possibly around Lake Flores – both unforgettable places with an extraordinary mix of history, color and wildlife. Anyway, I mention this because I recently licensed a completely different parrot […]
When I was a kid growing up in what would eventually become an increasingly dysfunctional family in Los Angeles, there was a short period – maybe a year, maybe two – when I experienced something that I want to remember as blissful. My father had decided that we needed a swimming pool in the backyard […]
Somewhere above Greece last week, just before landing while flying with SAS in an Airbus A320, the sky put on one of those quiet shows no screen can compete with. As we began the descent on our way to Sivota, the clouds appeared like soft mountain ranges, lit from below by a sunset slowly burning […]
I’m definitely not a resort or a retreat person. I don’t like being trapped in a cushy, comfy all-inclusive bubble where I don’t get to see, hear, smell, or taste anything other than what has been more or less intelligently composed and conceptualized for me by a team of hospitality pros. To me, that kind […]
A long day’s journey home has begun. Packed and ready, but packing is definitely not one of my hidden talents. You would think that after decades of traveling and thousands of hotel nights, I would have developed some kind of technique or knack for it. But not a chance. When it comes to packing a […]
I’m once again on assignment in Greece to do a travel story about another seaside sport hotel known for its many activities. This time I’m on the mainland, not too far from the legendary islands of Corfu and Paxos. I rarely eat anything other than yogurt and smoothies at home, except when Charlotte makes her […]
The sky was wide, the air was crisp, and the landscape was doing what it does best at this time of year – completely giving in to the season and showcasing the blue and yellow hues of the Swedish flag. Driving through Österlen right now means moving through an almost surreal contrast of colors: the […]
Malmö. Last night. Gorgeous evening light, with the Öresund Bridge doing its usual quiet thing in the background. How could I not whip out my five-year-old iPhone and at least try to capture this beautiful bird? This is not just any duck, but what, according to an informed source (ChatGPT), is a female mallard – […]
Not since ABBA’s Waterloo have I been able to say, honestly, that I think the Eurovision Song Contest is anything other than a professional and slickly produced spectacle where bad taste continues to prevail. I did, however, partake once, during the finale here in Malmö in 2013 – not by watching the show, but by […]
Many moons ago, Charlotte and I were commissioned to produce a comprehensive travel guide covering all the good stuff to enjoy in Miami, Florida. We flew out, stayed at the Delano in South Beach – a hotel that at the time housed Madonna’s partly owned Blue Door restaurant – and spent the week exploring and […]
One of the places I’m happiest to have visited – twice – is Cuba. From a purely visual standpoint, I sometimes think spending at least a week in Havana should be mandatory for any serious photographer. Few cities I have visited reward serendipitous wandering quite the same way. You can turn a corner expecting nothing […]
I’ve begun realizing that, at some point I probably need to create a book devoted entirely to the dogs I’ve met throughout my travels. Maybe in cooperation with Charlotte’s @hundvanligahotell I’ve never really set out to photograph dogs as a project, but because over the years they have just found their way into my viewfinder, […]
We spent last night in Österlen after meeting with buyers at bookstores and specialty shops scattered across a few villages in southeastern Sweden. So far, both Årstider in Södra Mellby and Simrishamn Bokhandel have purchased my photography book, Österlen, and are now offering it to their esteemed customers. This time of year, before the tourist season begins properly, is the best time […]
This shot was taken during the last meal I ate in the United States back in 2022. Strange the things we remember. Airports fade. Hotels blur. Entire conversations fade into white noise. But a meal? A proper meal? Those linger. For years, I danced around the meat question. On and off vegetarian. Then pescatarian for […]
This is where Charlotte and I go for our morning and evening swims. We’re still waiting for the temperature to rise high enough for the year’s premiere dip. It seems as if it might be a few more weeks…
Sunday. Morning. Gothenburg. Got through the week’s fourth gym session early this morning on Kungsgatan in Göteobrg where Fitness24Seven has one of its many branches. Ran for forty minutes, and the sound of the treadmill combined with the tech podcast “Hard Fork” was barely able to drown out the guy farther down in the room […]
My worst fear is not death. Not really. It is losing my cognitive ability and perhaps not even fully realizing it. Worse still – sensing it vaguely, like a distant alarm bell muffled behind thick walls. Knowing something important to my life has slipped away but being unable to grasp what it was or where […]
I realize I quite possibly spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about things most people probably discard and never revisit. I am not one to dwell on sadness or tragedy, but some stuff refuses to leave my heart and soul. I created the above scene from one of my own photographs, an archival image […]
While going through my increasingly receding photo archive, I come across images that I haven’t seen in ages. This one is from my very first solo exhibition in a garage adjacent to the house I was renting while attending art college in Visby on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea southeast of Stockholm. […]
I’ve been meaning to write this for a few days. While Henry and I were out on our photographic road trip last week, the food we ate followed no map. To avoid getting “hangry,” our meals simply appeared when they had to – sometimes forgettable, occasionally regrettable, and now and then surprisingly good and worth […]