I first started taking photos at the age of 12, in 1978. Snapping away mostly as a hobby at concerts and festivals, but it wasn’t until I started working with my fanzine Lollipop (1985-1987) that I found any real use for the tool as such. Since then, a camera has always been there with me.
I have always considered myself more of a photomaniac than a photographer proper. It’s more fun when it’s intuitive, spontaneous, impulsive and non-structured. Especially with people. When you set things up too much, people become someone else: a surface of more or less conscious projection rather than just a human being temporarily stuck in a time/space intersection.
Over the years, images accumulate and you can perhaps see patterns of attraction and behavior. I’ve been fortunate to be invited to exhibit photos and other kinds of artworks in many great places. That in itself makes me think of the image(s) as something more than mere documentation. Add, subtract, enhance and new things might just appear.
The portfolio and the various sample images from my exhibitions will hopingly tell you some kind of story, or possibly several. There’s a big and weird world out there and it feels good to be part of it. Subject matter exists everywhere and the better and more interesting that is, the better and more interesting the images will be too. Simple as that.
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