About

My passion for photography became my profession when I moved to South Africa in 2014. Early on I happened to engage with a number of clients within the performing arts, dance in particular. While also covering drama, music and other forms of artistic expression – the area of dance has always been like a magnet to me. I guess there is something addictive about capturing the human body in motion – and over time this has become my métier and an area where many of my job assignments originate.

I think it’s important that we always push our own boundaries – so I’m constantly looking for new ways to make my images more dynamic and interesting without taking away the attention from the main subject. This could be through the use of creative lighting or by working with textures such as water, powder, smoke or fabrics. I typically lean into the uncertainty, and try to figure out how to get all the pieces to work together using a combination of past experiences and fresh experimentation. I think it’s really important to embrace the discomfort of doing something that feels unknown.

I can probably blame it on my Scandinavian roots that I often have a tendency to go for a pure, minimalistic look – but on the other hand I also enjoy an image that compels the viewer to come back and give it a second and even a third glance. Because we are constantly bombarded with images competing for our eyeballs – getting that third glance is certainly a noble goal.

Lately I’ve found myself gravitating towards traditional analog photography for selected projects such as my portrait work – and I’ve been very fortunate with many of my clients welcoming this rather old-fashioned approach. I believe it’s been said that digital photography is a science – while film photography is a chemical miracle. There is some truth to that.