Not for everyone

Alice, Vombsjön, 2023.

Choosing your photographer can be difficult. How will you know if you’ll get photos you’ll love?

Every photographer has their own artistic voice, by which I mean how they see the world and then translate that into a photograph. It determines everything, from the light they choose, the angles they shoot from, how they frame their subjects, and how they develop their photographs.

You can read the copy on their websites, try to decode the language they use to describe their style, and talk to them in person, but in the end you need to look at their earlier work and see for yourself if it resonates with you. While subject (that is you), location, and light (including the weather) naturally have a profound impact on the look of a photograph, it’s much more likely that your images will look more like the photographer’s previous work than anything else. Choose a photographer whose earlier work you love.

I’m most definitely not for everyone. While I do my best to make technically sound photographs, with good composition and sharpness, I will prioritize emotion and atmosphere over everything else. The lenses I use aren’t as sharp as some modern ones, but they have a much more beautiful rendering. On top of that, I deliberately never sharpen my images, for an even softer look. My colors aren’t natural or true to life. Instead, I develop my digital images in the style of analog film photographs, because they become so much more beautiful.

If I must choose between a sharp image without much emotion and a blurry photograph that makes me skip a breath, I will toss the sharp one in an instant. If you choose me, I know you’d do the same.