Here are the books I’ve produced over the last 12 months. The Aging Man’s Survival Guide was initiated while we were in Greece, and I began working on the Portugal book – featuring images from about ten years of shorter and longer stays there – while we were in Italy.

Bangkok was mostly produced in Thailand this past summer, and I started working on the coffee table book Västra Hamnen last year in Vietnam. Finally, the book Varvsstaden was largely compiled here in Sweden during June and July.

I don’t measure my creative accomplishments against anyone but myself. These days, most of my friends, with a few exceptions, don’t work creatively or have creative hobbies. That’s not to say they can’t be creative – many of them are, in one way or another – but their day jobs are typically rational and structured, leaving very little room for the kind of projects that devour most of my waking hours. C’est la vie.

Therefore, I only measure and benchmark my creative output against what I’ve previously been able to produce, relative to a combination of my expectations and capacity.

As I age, my health is the key to my productivity.

As long as I eat healthy and keep my body reasonably fit, the creative ideas keep flowing and the thousands of decisions I need to make in say, the course of a book project, are executed without too much hesitation or overthinking.

I find that my photography books are fairly straightforward to produce. I’ve made over 20 by now, and although I don’t by any stretch of the imagination consider the process “easy,” my accumulated experience since the very first book in 2005 certainly makes starting a new book project feel a lot less intimidating and daunting.

I’m currently working on a new book right now, narrowing the image count from about 300 photographs to roughly 60 carefully curated candidates. Once that’s done, I’ll spend about two weeks deciding where to place each of the finalists on the book’s 90 or so pages.

I’ve got a couple of other books in the works, but I’m going to keep a lid on them until I’m further down the road…