Stefan Nordström - Interludes

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L.A.TIMOZ

I sat there on the strip, next to the beach in Los Angeles. It was in late spring.

Four guys were playing ball against the wall. Their bodies were covered with tattoos.

They looked like they did not care.

I knew the more I waited the harder it was going to be, to get contact.
So, I walked up (with my black sunglasses on) to the one I thought was most friendly.
– Can I take your picture? He looked at me, started to walk away from where I was standing.
His friend looked at him and said – Was up?
The first guy answered, – I don’t know, was up! This guy; he thinks he’s a fucking FBI or something like that.

Then it happened. The first guy started to smile. The icebreaker, the connection that I was looking for.

I took up the camera then spent the afternoon with them. /.../

A bit later two beach cops showed up. The guys left fast.

Initially, I was in Vancouver to shoot for Absolut Vodka. This was only for one day, so we had 7 days off. Then my assistant came up with the idea—to take a drive to Los Angeles. I looked at him with a funny face and said – That’s far! The next morning we sat in the car. Four speeding tickets later, we were there.

Some time after, I got home to Sweden. A couple of guys were about to open a club at Sturehof in Stockholm. They wanted to do an art show with the pictures I took. The only thing was, I had no background information on these guys. So, my college; the Journalist Johan Lindberg came up with the brilliant idea—to lie. Then to name the art show “LATIMOZ” taken from Latin and Moz (a nickname for Steven Patrick Morrissey). The four guys I shot became immoderate “The Smiths ” fans, like that.

This was later reviewed in art magazines, as it was true. Frankly, maybe it was.

DANIEL SAHLBERG PHOTOGRAPHY © 2011

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Links: Daniel Sahlberg Photography
Previous work by Daniel on the F-blog: Fat fringes and A pedestrian display of affection.
Invited by Anders Blomqvist

Vulnerable

photo: abeku

Postcard from: Gdansk

photo by Kamila Kulik

Sent i november

Långeruder

Straight Story

camera: sx-70
film: polaroid 600 expired

Photographer: Attila Floszmann, Hungary

Hedemora

Meniscus lens/GP3 film

Romanian Times

Needful Peace

part I / Vilnius 2010 by Dominik Miklaszewski

A park bench.

A park bench is such a popular photographic topic. Show me yours?!

Dan Isaac Wallin

In the creative aspect of his work, Dan Isaac Wallin has a love of Polaroid. He prefers to work with a simple SX-70 or Polaroid 180, using long expired Polaroid film. Wallin gently and carefully treats and mistreats the Polaroid film while it is developing, until he gets the soft ‘other-world’ look, that is the signature style of his work.

This series will show mainly outdoor motifs from the Swedish countryside. The colours and expressions change with the seasons, and behind these beautiful images there rests a serious, calm and poetic sensitivity.

Wallin presents journeys from the places of childhood. His memories become dreamlike sequences; from the blue of Bohuslän to the black and white of Israel. Mystery cuts through the nostalgic imagery and awakens questions within the viewer.

Links: Dan Isaac Wallin.

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A PEDESTRIAN DISPLAY OF AFFECTION

Daniel Sahlberg Photography 2010 ©.

The city of Toronto. I feel favoured to walk these streets. The people, the architecture, the smell, the taste; the life.

I was in Toronto first time in 2007. First days, I remember wanting to go home so bad. It was late October and was raining sideways. But then after a few days, I never wanted to leave.

I was traveling together with a very dedicated Creative Director, on commission for the Swedish Absolut Vodka Company. It was full schedule. The only day off, I went to the Andy Warhol Art Show; Stars, Deaths, and Disasters. Curator; David Cronenberg (film director). I remember standing there, at the Art Gallery of Ontario (this is Frank Gehry building today) listening to Dennis Hopper’s thoughts about Andy Warhol’s relation to Jackie Kennedy – That, he actually wanted to be her.

I got inspired by all this creativity and wanted to depict the city. But I did not have the time, I had to catch a flight the next day. Nevertheless, two years later I had the opportunity to go back to see a friend. /…/

Finally, this is TORONTO.

Daniel Sahlberg

Links: Daniel Sahlberg Photography, Daniel previusly on the F-blog >>.

Invited by Anders Blomqvist