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 […]
There’s something subtly disorienting about seeing a place you think you know from an angle you’ve never experienced. This image was part of my exhibition Malmö Upside Down in Slottsträdgården a few years ago. The premise was straightforward – take familiar places and shift the perspective enough that recognition is no longer immediate. Not to complicate […]
My book Abandoned – The Beauty in What Remains has been purchased by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and is now available in their museum shop. To me, this in itself carries a certain significance, not to mention validation. Louisiana has long held a reputation not only for its exhibitions, but for the careful sensibility that extends into everything […]
This collage is from last night when we celebrated Valborg in Västra Hamnen, Malmö – one of those rare evenings where everything just falls into place. This image captures the atmosphere along the waterfront, from the Ljudkullarna to the open spaces by the sea, where thousands gathered to welcome spring. What stands out isn’t just […]
The other day, during a road trip with Henry, we stopped to photograph this beautiful old wooden building housing Göta Hotell. It couldn’t have been more perfectly placed, and the weather was just about ideal for this quiet stretch along Göta Kanal. The hotel has appeared in several Swedish films and, while they clearly have […]
I learned only recently that the plastic surgeon Jan B. Weislander passed away in December 2025. The news arrived quietly, almost in passing, which in itself felt strangely fitting. For nearly a decade, he was a client of mine, though “client” never quite captured the relationship. I advised Dr. Weislander on how to refine his […]
Stockholm. Spring. Finally. The cherry trees in Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården (King’s Park) don’t ease into it – they just arrive, all at once, turning an otherwise grey city center into a pink extravaganza. A few days of soft pink, light shifting through petals, people slowing down, most without quite realizing it. Shot entirely on my old […]
This is Vadstena Castle, from my first visit to this part of Östergötland a few days ago. There’s no denying the scale or the design – it’s impressive. But standing here, it also feels almost oversized, out of proportion with the relatively small town around it. I’ve read that this imbalance wasn’t accidental. When Swedish […]
Sunday. Sun. Smögen. It’s been about 42 years since I was last in Smögen, that postcard-perfect fishing village on Sweden’s west coast. Hard for me to grasp how quickly time has passed. Back then, I visited several summers in a row – a kind of mandatory stop during a week-long sailing trip along this gorgeous […]
Sunday. Morning. Fjällbacka. It almost feels as if we have this quaint fishing village to ourselves, my buddy and fellow photographer Henry Arvidsson and I. Off-season travel is the name of the game. Last year’s photo adventure took us to Svalbard. This year, we’re on a road trip through some of Sweden’s most beautiful places […]
My first transatlantic crossing was in 1966. My mother, Solveig “Sissi” Ina Andersson (later Anders), and I traveled from Los Angeles to Trollhättan. What remains from that first trip are not clear scenes but blurry fragments. A room. A bed, or perhaps a sofa bed where my great-grandmother Selma was resting. Me, standing nearby, trying […]
I captured this fellow in Aix-en-Provence last week. I occasionally notice men like him, roughly my age, behind counters, pushing carts, stacking shelves, mopping floors that don’t really need it. There’s a stillness about these men. Not defeat, exactly, but something adjacent. A kind of withdrawal. And I find myself wondering – not out of […]
Here are a few compiled Cannes clips from last week’s visit. All shot on my trusty old iPhone 14 from 2022. Footage was shot in 4k at 60fps, edited on a 1080p timeline and rendered as a 4:22 film file using Final Cut Pro.
Back in Sweden again after yet another inspiring visit to the French Riviera. There’s always that slight recalibration when I return – different light, different pace. Spring is just about to happen here in Malmö. I can feel it more than I can see it. The air has shifted. The light lingers a little longer. […]