Nicolas Wormull
Alvaro is originally from Chile and decided to go to Sweden with his French passport, just after taking his degree as a physician. He applied for over 100 jobs in 6 months as a keeper, a job which he was overqualified for. When he ran out of money, he was forced to work with whatever was available. This picture was taken right before he went to work on his first day as a dishwasher, which he did for 3 months. Today he lives in Chile and is a practicing physician.
Fredrik Härenstam
Each year around the advent of St Knut’s Day the residents of the islands northwest of Gothenburg divide into something that, curiously enough, by tradition holds them together. During the spruce wars people are looking, hiding and stealing as many spruces as possible from each others areas to build the highest Easter lighthouse to illuminate the night of Good Friday. Despite stories about fights and beatings, great hiding places and ambitious ventures, the spruce wars for most people are an excuse to party, more than anything else.
Johannes Frandsén
The apartments from the “million apartment” – a project finacing their refurbishment for several billion kronor is needed, but nobody wants to pay.
Johan Strindberg
Scars have always fascinated me. They tell us a lot: of everything beyond the ideal surface – the flawless exterior.
Ola Möller
Sunset at the reggae festival Öland Roots, Sandbergen, Öland 2007.
Erik Thoor
Solna, Huvudsta, Home.
Martim Guerra Silva
For 99 kr, you get a one bed cabin, two meals and afterwards its time for a dance. You walk around, perhaps to get a feeling of solidarity or to escape everyday life. In the middle of the night the boat berths in Västerhamn.
Ola Möller
A snapshot from one evening when we sat at Moa’s place and played worms on the PS2.
Mattias Lyckne
Swedes seem to have missed the point that the rule “Do not talk to strangers” only applies to children.
Ricard Estay
Many young people from immigrant backgrounds dream of a better future as others do, and in this case like many others, they find it through sports. In the picture Jonathan is depicted playing in Los Copihues, a Chilean soccer club in the 5th series. They play not only for a better future but also to have a place where they can hang out with Latin American friends who speak the same language and have similar values in life.
Sabina Husberg Götlind
As the only child in a family of adults, you grow up fast. But sometimes, like on Christmas Eve, you realize who is small and who is big.
Jesper Berg
Basketball at the Art Hall, Malmö 2008.
Marta Debebe
A really good thing about Sweden is that my friends and I can play football practically whenever we want.
Sissel Wincent
We had bicycled ten kilometres to the outskirts of Karlstad to have a guys’ night out and play pig.
Martin Hultén
Security Högdalen Stockholm
Emmy Lindblom
Being seventeen or eighteen years old, one late summer evening in September.
Beata Cervin
‘When the time is right, I’ll pick you up and take you far away from here’ - Håkan Hellström
The Photo Book about Sweden / Fotoboken om Sverige
Citizen Photojournalism Project which resulted in a book and exhibitions where 44 young photographer depicted Sweden, in a contrast to a Sweden which normally is depicted in a static and romantized way with red cottages, ABBA, midsummer, dark forests and blondes. Instead of letting journalists depict young people and their lives. We created a space where young people could take back their right to interpret their own reality. Depicting themselves and putting emphasis on the things that they felt was interesting or important.
SHORT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT:
1500 pictures were sent in to the project by over 300 photographers.
The project was made with the volontary help from the 100 people that have been working with the project so far – Translators, photographers, graphic designers, curators, producers.
The project is translated into 7 languages.
64 pictures from 44 young photographers were selected.
The exhibition has been shown in Stockholm (three times), Skövde, St. Petersburg(RU), Moscow(RU), Tbilisi(GE), Buenos Aires(AR) and Oberá(AR).
Upcoming stops for the exhibition. Uruguay.
News about the project has been covered in SVT (Swedish National TV Broadcaster), Swedish Radio, DN (Sweden’s biggest newspaper), VISION (Chinese Mag. with 280000 copies in monthly circulation)
The project was partly funded by the European Union via the Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs.
See a e-version of the publication here.
Buy a copy HERE.
FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Adam Wännman Zetterqvist, Agnes Thor, Alexander Karlsson Trushkov, Amanda Sveed, Annika Engwall, Astrid Olsson, Azin Ashourvan, Beata Cervin, Einar Samuelsson Torgny, Emmy Lindblom, Erik Thor, Erica Tusach, Fredrik Härenstam, Hampus Olsson, Ida Borg, Jesper Berg, Johan Strindberg, Johanna Carlbaum Lagerwall, Johannes Frandsen, Jonas Ohlsson, Julia Hedberg Hengen, Linda Svensson, Malin Jansson, Marta Debebe, Martim Guerra Silva, Martin Hultén, Mattias Lyckne, Mia Olofsson, Monika Miranda Maureira, Nicolas Wormull, Niklas Nyberg, Ola Elmquist, Ola Möller, Pia Johansson Goldmann, Ricard Estay, Rikard Lavitskij, Sabina Husberg Götlind, Saga Berlin Fuentes, Sissel Wincent, Stephane Chabrier, Ulf Alling, Viktor Gårdsäter, Viktor Wallström, Viktoria Ekholm.
Adam Wännman Zetterqvist, Agnes Thor, Alexander Karlsson Trushkov, Amanda Sveed, Annika Engwall, Astrid Olsson, Azin Ashourvan, Beata Cervin, Einar Samuelsson Torgny, Emmy Lindblom, Erik Thor, Erica Tusach, Fredrik Härenstam, Hampus Olsson, Ida Borg, Jesper Berg, Johan Strindberg, Johanna Carlbaum Lagerwall, Johannes Frandsen, Jonas Ohlsson, Julia Hedberg Hengen, Linda Svensson, Malin Jansson, Marta Debebe, Martim Guerra Silva, Martin Hultén, Mattias Lyckne, Mia Olofsson, Monika Miranda Maureira, Nicolas Wormull, Niklas Nyberg, Ola Elmquist, Ola Möller, Pia Johansson Goldmann, Ricard Estay, Rikard Lavitskij, Sabina Husberg Götlind, Saga Berlin Fuentes, Sissel Wincent, Stephane Chabrier, Ulf Alling, Viktor Gårdsäter, Viktor Wallström, Viktoria Ekholm.