Calaisa

Last year I photographed the Swedish rock/pop/country group Calaisa. In an old quarry I took press photos that would also be used for their third and latest record Up to us (just released). It was cold and windy but luckily not rainy. The original idea was to photograph them one by one for the cover but in the end they picked one of the group photo. If your curious of their music you should go to www.calaisa.com. There you will also see some of the photos that I took, but I didn't put the yellow/red layer on them. I like them more as black and white...
Styling: Emilie Lantz (Special thanks to Spirit for lending the black dresses)  Make-up & hair: Jenny Beckman Assistants: Mi Tjio & Jenny Ljunggren Behind the scenes photos: Jenny Ljunggren

Ida & Chippen

I love horses, always have and always will. There is something magical about being able to control such a big and powerful animal. These days I don't have a horse of my own but I do have a wonderful cousin with two. When I go back and visit my home town we sometimes go for a ride in the woods. I love the feeling of freedom, the speed, the sound and the scent. My last horse was called Con Air and when she got nervous, which happened often, I could feel her heartbeat through the saddle. That was a sign that I should really hold on because something bad was about to happen. She is also the reason why I have a porcelain tooth. During an accident she kicked me in the face. She was a bit crazy but I loved her. It broke my heart when we sold her but my mind was made up, I was moving to go to photography school. I had discovered another passion that I needed to explore...

Love is in the air

Ahead of me a got a time that's going be filled with love. How do I know this? Because I have more than 20 weddings to photograph this spring and summer. It's quite hard to photograph weddings, harder than you might think. There is the pressure of getting it right because there is no second chance and also the challenge to capture the love and passion between two people you just met. I used to do show jumping with horses on a high level some years ago and I loved the adrenaline I got from it. Photographing weddings is in a way a similar feeling to competing. I have to be in the moment and aware of everything that happens around me. One couple once asked me what I wanted my wedding to be like and I didn't know what to reply because I've never really thought about it. My parents are not married and It's never really been on my mind. Well I guess first I have to find someone that I even could think of marrying and then I will take it from there. I think marrying someone is a beautiful thing and I love the positive feeling I got after I've photographed one. Seeing all these people who have found someone that they want to share their life and dreams with is inspiring. But then I guess I'm kind of a sucker for romance, I just saw the the latest twilight film...twice  in a row.

Ina (Part 1)

About a week ago I got my 5D Mark III and I'm taking a lot of photos right now just to get to know her before this weekend when I have a big wedding. One of these photo shoots was with the lovely Swedish girl Ina. I discovered her at Burger King during a local festival last year. I'm very glad to have done this because not only does she look stunning, she also knows what kind of graceful movements I'm looking for. Since spring has taken a stupid pause it was freezing but Ina was such a fighter and didn't complain at all. I styled her myself with two of my second hand findings. I found the white wedding dress in a store in Berlin and I have almost used it too much. I bought the dressing gown last week at Humana in Malmö. I love that store, great prices and beautiful clothes. To complete the look I added some of my many rings. I collect them and every time I travel somewhere I buy at least one. I like the feeling of carrying pieces of the world on my fingers. I call this post part 1 because there will be more photos of her wearing black instead. But for now you just have to do with the white once...
xoxo

March / Malmö

Come come spring and summer...Im waiting for you

Natalie Cécile Coquand

Natalie is a Swedish Dj from Gothenburg who now lives in Malmö. Together with Johan Hagen she creates Hagen & Cécile. Just recently she was named Dj of the week in Gothenburg and I look forward to hear them play this weekend in Malmö. Are you curious of this beautiful duo? Go to http://hagenandcecile.tumblr.com/ There you will find more info about them and where you will be able to catch them play music.

Mi and the enchanted light

If you have seen my photos before you have definitely seen this girl more than once. Her name is Mi and she is one of my best friends. She is also one of my absolute favorite models to shoot. She just has that thing that I love, she is fierce and soft at the same time. Maybe it's because she is also an artist (www.mitjio.com) or the fact that she is a great dancer. Today we went to the park close to where I live. I was freezing cold so we only took photos for like 50 min but during this time I got so many nice photos it's ridiculous. She is wearing a black dress that I found in an secondhand store some years ago in Copenhagen and a hat that I bought just yesterday for only 3 E. I love finding things on sale or at secondhand stores. I don't mind the fact that someone else used to wear it, on the contrary I like the fact that it has history, a story that I will never know. And I also think that we are consuming too much new material already. I think you can see that I have a great love for nature in my pictures. I find it precious and we need to treasure it more than we do today. Since I was little I have been very afraid to loose my eyes. I still remember when my teacher in first class told me that you should be carful because you only got two eyes and if you damage them you will not be able to see ever again. In a way that is how I look at the world, except that there is only one...so no second chances.

xoxo

Berlin birds