A few minutes in, along the water, and I’m no longer just on the Côte d’Azur. The air – that mix of salt, sun, and something faintly urban – lands almost exactly like Venice Beach. Not identical, but close enough. Close enough that the body recognizes it before the brain does. Palm trees spaced just […]
Even if daily temperatures are nowhere near what I prefer and what my body yearns for, I feel comfortable knowing that we’re heading into six months of agreeable weather.
Geometry doesn’t lie, and it’s readily available in both urban dwellings and organic environments. It’s just there – in shadows cutting across a facade, lines meeting, in patterns that appear once you look beyond the obvious. That’s the moment I’m currently focused on. Geometric photography isn’t just simplification. It’s more about revealing or discovering patterns, […]
I’m not a huge fan of moules frites. There, I said it. Not because it tastes bad – quite the opposite. It’s perfectly fine. Occasionally, even good. But it’s one of those dishes where the effort-to-reward ratio feels… off. Still, place me at a table where the group momentum is strong enough, and I will […]
There’s something quietly relentless about going through an archive of one’s own work. Not the glamorous part of photography. Not the travel, not the moment of capture, not even the finished image. Just me, a screen, and tens of thousands of files staring back, asking to be judged, thrown away or tweaked. I’m currently working […]
Here’s a collage from our Tuesday visit to the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. If for no other reason, living in Malmö has the geographical benefit of being so relatively close to Louisiana, as well as having Copenhagen and Kastrup International Airport nearby.
Here’s an inverted version of Humlebæk train station, which is located near the shore of Øresund and just a few minutes’ walk from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, where Elle, Charlotte, and I spent most of yesterday afternoon enjoying the world-class exhibits, the excellent shop, gorgeous surroundings, and delicious food. We make a cultural […]
I captured this wild red sea bream (madai) at the old fish market Tsukiji in Tokyo which I’ve visited a couple of times. It wasn’t pretty in any conventional sense. The market was huge, wet, noisy, chaotic and smelled exactly like you’d expect a place handling the ocean’s harvest to smell. Nothing there was staged […]
Friday. Evening. Gothenburg. Took the early milk run north through the country, from the south coast to the west coast. Spent most of the train ride writing, largely offline. Grabbed the train’s sturdy conductor to explain that there was no way to get online.Oh, so the Wi-Fi is down? The stressed conductor asked, his expression […]
Somewhere in Americamura – Osaka’s American Village. Street portraits. No plan. Just walking. Looking. Studying. What makes street portrait photography work isn’t just about luck. It’s negotiation without words. Distance, timing, intent. Knowing when to step in, when to hold back, when a glance is permission and when it’s a boundary. In Japan, that balance […]
This could have been from the Shinkansen trip between Osaka and Kanazawa, or Kyoto to Osaka last fall. Hard to say. Not important. What stayed with me was the bento box. Not just because it was neatly packed and thoughtfully composed. Clean lines, balanced colors, a quiet attention to detail. Soft rice, crisp pickles, something […]
By now, I’ve experienced all seasons in Japan, though only in the southern part of the country. Aside from Mount Fuji, I have yet to see snow on the ground or any of the country’s northern alpine landscapes. This shot is from the temple area of Nara, sometime in late October, when the leaves of […]
Urban landscape photography has always felt like a contradiction that somehow makes perfect sense. The genre sits right at the intersection of structure, chaos, permanence, change and dilapidation. Once established, most cities are built to last, yet they’re never finished. Something is always being torn down, rebuilt, repurposed, or abandoned. What draws me in is […]
During our whirlwind road trip around California, David Pahmp and I were set on visiting at least one ghost town. We arrived at Bodie too late the first day, just as the place was closing. We came back the next morning and had several hours to walk around properly. That was the right way to […]
Yesterday, I delivered “Abandoned – The Beauty in What Remains” to Malmö Konsthall. Even after all these book projects, I still get a rush of pride seeing my efforts “in the wild” at a bookstore. It makes the entire journey feel so tangible and real. When I hold the finished book, I can feel the […]
My book “Abandoned – The Beauty in what Remains” will soon be available for purchase at Göteborgs Konstmuseum. It’s already on the bookshelf at Malmö Konsthall. It’s great to have such a niche book at both cities’ premier art museums. For those of you who aren’t near either place, the book can also be ordered […]
I’m in Gothenburg for a few days. Spent a couple of hours at the city’s art museum, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, today. It’s a huge place, arguably disproportionately large in relation to the city’s relatively small size. Then again, visual art has historically always been kind of important here—much more so than in Malmö. “Olive Grove“ by […]
I photographed this view last night as Charlotte and I walked back from a restaurant in the “Castletown” (Slottsstaden) district of Malmö. These last few days of warmer temperatures and plenty of sunshine are a clear indication that spring has finally arrived – and not a day too soon. Even my walk to the gym […]
Charlotte had just been reading about Kino International in a magazine, and when we realized it was practically around the corner from our hotel, we knew we had to see it. In fact, we ended up visiting it twice yesterday – once during the day to appreciate the architecture and then again later that evening […]
It felt undeniably strange to wander around ITB Berlin – the world’s largest travel trade show – yesterday. Perhaps that’s why it took extra time to navigate the halls, which this year were once again filled to the brim with happy people and colorful exhibits striving to showcase countries, cities, and inspiring experiences. At the […]
Here’s a cute cub from my visit to a lion orphanage in South Africa a while back. Signing a liability waiver, with its cold legal language about personal health and the very real risks of injury or worse, quickly stripped away any lingering “Disney” illusions I might have had beforehand. I soon realized that stepping into an […]
The Safari book is coming along. Most of the heavy lifting isn’t out there in the bush anymore – it’s here, in front of a calibrated screen, choosing which images deserve a page from a curated collection. That might sound simple. It isn’t. Editing is its own form of travel. Time travel. Some images have […]
Getting ready for my seventh or eighth visit to Berlin and ITB, the annual international travel trade show. In the beginning of March, the German capital can be windy and cold. But at ITB, the heat is on and we’re looking forward to meeting old friends and getting to know a few new faces.
“I ache in the places where I used to play.” Leonard Cohen wrote that line decades ago, and while I am by no means a huge fan, I have a lot of respect for his art and perseverance. Even though he was far younger than I am today when he sang it, that particular line […]
Culinarily, I’m omnivorous. My food preferences are as varied as my DNA, or, the different places I’ve visited and lived. I eat just about everything – though if it even remotely reminds me of liver, you can count me out. I’m not big on game meat, either, which can often come with that liver-adjacent taste […]
I’ve been quietly working on a new book project and, as is usual, once there’s a curated compilation of candidate photographs, I’ll get to work on the layout process by deciding on the cover. I realize that to some, this might seem counterintuitive. But after having produced so many books, it’s become a reliable way […]
I can’t remember the last time we had a cold spell this long in southern Sweden. Normally Malmö’s winter temperatures hover around the freezing point, with average daily highs in the single digits above 0 °C and lows near 0 °C. This year has been different – exceptionally cold. In January 2026 alone, there were […]
I’ve said it before, but it truly bears repeating: finding someone who loves you for who you are – and who, year after year, stays even as the patina of age becomes more visible – is something worth honoring on Valentine’s Day. It’s easy to talk about love as butterflies or grand gestures. But the […]
I’ve come to understand something about myself over the years: I need to change environments often to keep me from getting bored. You’d think that when my creative juices are flowing, that I’d be more or less agnostic to where I am geographically. And there are times when I sincerely wish this were true. Not […]
What the hell was I supposed to do? Dip my hands into that filthy toilet bowl? I had just changed trains, grabbed a dozen handles and railings, pressed buttons, and probably touched a fair number of surfaces of questionable cleanliness. So the very first thing I wanted to do – needed to do – once […]
Unlike Malmö, when I arrived yesterday afternoon, the sun was shining in Göteborg. There was much more snow, and considerably colder temperatures as well. Especially after the sun set. Heading eastward to a – for me – totally new destination today.
When we woke up yesterday morning to a gloomy, snowy, windy Saturday in February, we made two decisions: Charlotte promised to fry up a tall stack of her delicious pancakes, and we agreed that, despite the crappy weather, we’d still make the day as worthwhile as possible. Said and done – we forced our way […]
Against better judgment, I tagged along to IKEA. The day had started so well: an early morning workout, then a rare writing flow – words landing where they should, sentences saying what I meant. It was one of those days when I thought: here is the formula, and I’ll run it again tomorrow. And then […]
Captured this earlier today on my merry way home from @fitness24seven where I work out, 5:45-7:00 am most Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The temperature on my phone showed ”only” –3 °C (27 °F), but with the gusty wind, the app also made me aware that it would probably feel more like –15 °C (5 °F). […]
I woke up three times last night. Not because I had to pee, or for any other reasonable reason. I just did. It’s one of aging’s less talked-about discomforts. According to the European Sleep Research Society (ESRS), normal aging tends to bring lighter sleep, less deep sleep, and more nighttime awakenings – basically, sleep gets […]