Scenes from an Island

Divided into three acts and set against the dramatic island landscape, this body of work was created between 2014 and 2024, during various stays at the Ingmar Bergman Estate on the Swedish island of Fårö. The series examines the vulnerability of humankind and nature, as reflected in the climate crisis and global conflicts. which already served Bergman as a source of inspiration and a backdrop for his films, islanders, and refugees become protagonists in a photographic reflection on the existential issues of our time.

“I staged scenarios; sans figures and with figures transitioning through the frame, to explore transience and the elemental conditions of landscape — bodies contrasted with the desolate topography — the mountains, the earth, the water, and the air.”

In a society where secularism and individualism rule, the relationship to nature is almost religious as a way of finding connection. A portion of the work was exhibited at Fotografiska New York, Bergmancenter, Sweden, and at the National Museum of Finland. 

SPIRIT & FLESH MAGAZINE | INTERVIEW SCANDINAVIA STANDARD  | INTERVIEW L’OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE  | ART REVIEW | ARTICLE L’OEIL DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE | SWEDISH RADIO INTERVIEW  | INTERVIEW KULTURÖJN  | PRESS RELEASE (USA) | PRESS RELEASE (FIN) | PRESS RELEASE (SWE) | MUSEE MAGAZINE | SOUND

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