Between 2002–2007 I cruised along the river Viskan in Southern Sweden with my 8x10" large-format camera, taking photographs of landscapes and scenery, settlements and people as they go about their everyday lives. My aim has been to depict a tiny piece of Sweden in the early 21st century. I have let chance rule my itinerary. Subject choices have often been intuitive and human encounters unforeseen, as so often happens in life.

 

Life is like the river, and the flow of the river resembles life. What has moulded us, making us what we are, is behind us. But ours is no static identity. Our habitat is changing all the time, physically and socially. This change is rapid, although our perceptions are not always in phase with time. It has many nuances that we do not always see. Some pass by unnoticed, as if we were stones beneath the rushing water.

 

But we are not the stones. We are the movement of the water itself. We are an integral part of the the river, the cycle of life, and time ...