Very few of my portraits are studio portraits. I find that my best images occurs when I document random meetings. The portraits I have made of Masai women is an example of this. A short meeting, only natural lighting and no directions for posing. I feel that these kind of situations makes for better portraits. Or, I am just trying to convince my self of this, as I do not enjoy telling people where to look or how to pose.

My many travels to different African countries have given me the opportunity to meet and greet whit people going about their daily life.

In my opinion, the best kind of meetings.

It could be a road to nowhere or the path to higher ground. You never know. I have always been fascinated by landscape and how different we se them. When I photograph landscapes I try to frame a feeling more than making the perfect replica of the landscape. I exhale, take in the scenery and feel. The feeling controls how I position the camera and what settings I use for the shot. Therefore my landscape photos vary in style as the feeling I had making the shot varies.

For me, being in nature is more about being present than it is to reach a set destination or conquer a mountain. I love the feeling of leaving the path made by others and embark on a journey over marshes, through dense thicket just to discover a moss-covered stone or a three with an unique shape set in a magical light. In my experience nature is especially generous at break of dawn.

My work as a wildlife photographer started as late as 2019 in Zimbabwe. Hwange national park in Zimbabwe is probably not what most safari tourists think of when they plan a tour, but Hwange is definitely a place to consider as there are much less tourists. I have experienced the line of safari cars in Masaimara or Serengeti, at times it is like rush hour in a major city. Hwange on the other side has all the wildlife, and most of the time you can enjoy the safari in peace and quiet, which, I’m sure the wild animals prefer as well.

Monochrome landscapes is a series of images shot in black & white. Even though I for the most part shoot digital, and can edit my photos to black & white in post production. I prefer to shoot my monochrome images as black & white in camera. In fact I have a camera designated for my black & white photography as it always is set to black & white. I find monochrome landscapes especially interesting as it’s more about shapes, textures, light and shadows.

Monochrome wildlife is my take on wildlife, a square project. The project was initiated by my frustration over instagrams square format, that I found so limiting. So I wanted to challenge my self by forcing me to present my wildlife photos in an square format. My main tool in this project is naturally the crop tool. I do not shoot my images in square format, my standard shooting format is 3:2. Starting to crop my photos I realized that the format made me discover new stories in my images, I had to dig deeper into my purpose with the image and I had to accept that I had to tell my story with less objekts and a hole new take on the image. Read more about the project in my blog, where I present some of the images from the project.