Fanny

When I was back in Sweden a couple of weeks ago I met up with my friend and working model Fanny. We had a lovely shoot in the outside part of the local bathhouse. It was a sunny and beautiful day but of course cold. But, since Fanny is a pro that was not a problem. That is one of the things I really love about working with a real model, they usually give 100% and that usually gives you the chance to take great pictures.

(p.s click on the photos if you what to see them bigger)

Spring in Berlin

Spring is by far my favourite time of the year. Together with nature you are awaken once again. Spring in Berlin is wonderfully green and the trees are full of beautiful flowers. The other day I had an amazing photo-shoot with my friend Caroline. We walked around for about 2 hours and experienced both sunshine and rain. So, yes it was a typical day in April. Caroline is a multi talented person who photographs, writes, illustrates and has a great sense of style. You can find her art and more at http://www.carolinia.blogspot.com/

NY...I miss u

It's hard to believe that it's been a year since I lived in the wonderful city of NY. I went there without really knowing anyone and when I left I had found some pretty awesome people. Things happened to me that I couldn't even dream of happening. It was a lifechanging experience and I am happy that I took so many photos while I stayed there. As time goes by we all intend to forget small things that has happened to us. In a way I guess that's why I take photos, to remember and smile and never forget.

Medina, Marrakech

Walking around in the Medina, the oldest part of Marrakech, is like walking around in a jungle. You could easily get lost but luckely I'm with a person who knows every corner. There's things going on everywhere and the experience is very intense. If your not looking at grafts your looking at people.

Essaouira, Morocco

This is a fishing village 3 hours from Marrakech. I went there to swim in the ocean and eat fresh fish by the water.

More Marrakech

Published in Radar Magazine

Recently I was interview by the photographer Caroline Johansson for the web based swedish magazine Radar Magazine. Caroline is a friend of mine and she also runs a blog that you will find at http://carolinia.blogspot.com. I was aked three questions and you will find the result at:

http://www.radarzine.com/foto/2010/03/17/isabell-n-wedin/

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Traveling pics from Marrakech

I don't consider myself to be a good travel photographer but that doesn't mean that I think I am bad at it. I just have an issue with photographing people without them knowing it. It doesn't make it easier that I am in a country where they get very mad if they catch you taking a portrait of them. I am traveling with my boyfriend, who is also a photographer and he loves street photography and I believe that he in a way sees photographing the people in Marrakech without their knowledge as a hunt aswell. The other day we got involved in a heavy argument after he got caught photographing a girl. The father the daughter was furious and tried to pull the camera away from him. More and more people came and there where at least 10 men around us. My boyfriend was forced to erase the hole memory-card on his G10 before they let us go and then they were still screaming about the police. This left me shaky and reminded me about the fact that I like photographing people that knows about it. But since I would unlikely get the permission to take their portrait I have been forced to adapt and now I have a technique that makes it impossible to think that I am taking pictures. You could say I shoot from the hip and even thou 95 % turns out really bad there are still some that doesn't. The images of people in the pictures below are results of this.

On the road...

I have been bad at updating the blog lately. There has been so many things going on and there still are. Right now I am in Milano and tomorrow I will be in Marrakech. So what I am saying is that I am gonna keep on being bad at updating but when it happens I believe that it is gonna be awesome.

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Digging for gold

I remember, not long ago I heard about a photographer who after every photo shoot deletes 70 % of all the images he has taken. He sais that he knows right away if it is o good or a bad picture and all the other images just takes up space on his hard drive. I could never work like that. Off course there are some images that you erase right away because of various reason but I believe that the way I look at pictures now will be different in just a year or two. I like to go back now and then and dig for some gold. What I love about getting older is mostly the fact that the more I see the more I learn. I have gone from being a huge Avedon fan to a huge Ryan McGinley fan(thank you Ruvan!) What I'm trying to say is that I'm constantly changing and when I go back in my archives I see things that I missed the first time. So don't delete more pictures than you should because you might be erasing that one picture that you will love later on. Today I travelled almost two years back and found pictures of my lovely friend and model Josefine. The shoot was for the brand Nene and it took place in Malmö. During that time I was totally into photographing in a studio. Right now I am doing the opposite and love the simple beauty in natural light. Without change I would become very bored of life...

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