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2018-04-27: Between the market and the arts
A discussion of photography as an art form, and its relation to the art markets.
Art, Photography, Economics, Essays, 2014

2015-10-08: Are the Ways of Seeing Francesca Woodman and Edith Gowin the same?
Francesca Woodman's work is on exhibition in Stockholm. I look at her photography, and felt that I had to reread parts of John Berger's Ways of seeing.
Photography, 2015

2015-08-24: Landskrona fotofestival 2015
Fotofestivalen i Landskrona har seglat upp som en fixstjärna på den nordiska fotohimlen. Jag har varit där tre år i rad nu. Håller den måttet? Har den växtverk?
Photography, 2015

2015-05-23: Gerillautställning
Lördagen den 23 maj, 13:00-16:00, Katarina Bangata 25, Södermalm, Stockholm
Photography, 2015

2015-04-20: At the end of the day there's another day dawning
From the life of a trans-national commuter
Photography, Video, 2015

2015-04-06: Gonna make a sentimental journey to renew old memories
För trettiofem år sen reste vi till Grekland, Gertrud och jag. Vi var yngre då än vårt yngsta barn är nu. I veckan som gick återvände vi. Trettiofem år är lång tid, mer än halva mitt liv, om trettiofem år är vi sannolikt döda.
Souvenir, Photography, Essays, 2015

2015-03-17: On the availability of stout
On my way home today I realized that something essential was missing. The stout.
Photography, Food and drink, 2015

2015-02-09: Too many buses, too many passengers
Inspired by the envy percieved when seeing all buses go with high frequency, except those lines I'm using
Photography, 2015

2015-02-05: Same but different
Two photos with similar composition but very different subject
Photography, 2015

2015-01-14: Movable type and the typographer's last words
Equipment from my fathers workshop.
Typography, Photography, 2015

2015-01-10: De sociala medierna och min fotografi
65 månader har jag varit medlem av Flickr. Under den tiden har jag publicerat 2728 bilder. Det är ungefär 10% av det jag fotar och i genomsnitt 1 bild per dag. Till vilken glädje? I skrivande stund rapporterar Flickr ungefär 4000 tittar per dygn.
Flickr, Photography, 2015

2014-11-08: Camera Lucida and a tale of two mothers
I've read Roland Barthes' book Camera Lucida
Mothers, Photography, Essays, 2014

2014-10-21: Ack Sverige, Du Sköna
Nu har jag läst Wallins bok Ack Sverige, Du Sköna
Photography, Essays, Art, 2014

2014-09-03: Granite is hard
He sat on his knees and started to penetrate the tiles with hammer and chisel
Essays, Images, Photography, 2014

2013-09-09: With a full frame sensor my lenses become wider
This is an addendum to my earlier review of the 15mm Super-Wide Heliar lens
Images, Lenses, Photography, 2013

2012-11-18: Biogon T* 2,8/25 ZM: Portrait of a lens
This is one of the very sharpest lenses made by mankind.
Images, Lenses, Photography, 2012

2012-11-18: Zeiss ZM 50mm f1.5 C-Sonnar: Portrait of a lens
The 50mm Sonnar f1.5 is a transplant from the Contax rangefinder world. A real classic there. Also, it is indeed a personality with a focus shift.
Images, Lenses, Photography, 2012

2012-11-18: Voigtländer 15mm f/4.5 Super Wide Heliar: A portrait of a lens
Super-wide Heliar was the first M Mount lens I bought. I have used it extensively, in particular on my Olympus E-P2. But I still use it over and over again.
Images, Lenses, Photography, 2012

2012-05-14: On colour
When a subject contains vidid colours, I invariably transform the photo to black and white. If there are few I usually preserve colour. Unless there is special conditions that make me feel that colour is important. For instance, when the image contain vivid colours.
Flickr, Photography, Images, 2012

2012-05-08: Creative Commons and Dutch Elm Disease
A story about some dead trees, a walk with friends in Skåne and a natural reserve outside Bristol, UK.
Flickr, Creative Commons, Photography, 2012

2012-02-02: Sigfrid intervjuad av Kristina
Kristina Alexandersson är en aktiv person i allt som handlar om Internet, lärande och öppet innehåll. I dag publicerade hon en intervju med mig på CreativeCommons svenska sajt.
Photography, Open Content, 2012

2012-01-18: Shooting M mount
I have been shooting M mount since November last year.
Images, Photography, Hardware, 2012

2011-05-24: A neighbour, almost
I've made a new acquaintance, Gustav Holmberg, a history of science scholar with a deep interest in photography. He has started a small series with portraits of cameras he meets on the streets of the world.
Photography, Hardware, Neighbours, 2011

2011-05-07: On focusing on the essentials
I acquired a socalled mirrorless interchangable lens camera in August last year. Since than I have used it exclusively with manual focus vintage lenses. Here I discuss my experience blending old and new imaging technologies.
Images, Photography, Hardware, 2011

2011-05-03: A Leica lens from Minolta?
The M Rokkor lenses were produced by Minolta for their excellent rangefinder camera Minolta CLE. I aquired one of them, the 40mm f2.0, for use with my Olympus E-P2.
Images, Lenses, Photography, Hardware, 2011

2010-10-29: Portrait of a lens: NIKKOR-O Auto 1:2 f=35mm
Portrait of a lens I've kept since I was a teenager.
Images, Hardware, Lenses, Photography, 2010

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