Cicci o Nour

de e humor, de e humor, de e humor -som killinggänget skulle sagt.
Jag var och plåtade Cecilia Forss och Nour El-Refai i föreställningen Cissi o Nour Almost like boys.
Riktigt kul! De driver hejdlöst med könsrollerna i vårt samhälle.
Träffande. Roligt. Riktigt roligt. Om man gillar sånt, och det gör jag.
På riksteaterns hemsida finns kul länkar.
Titta här.
Och här.
Och lite här.

Nu blev det mycket YouTube...

Michael Wood

Yesterday I where in Borgholm to shoot some pictures at Michael Wood, USA´s ambassador to Sweden. He was attending a press conference about electrical cars, alternative energy and the ticking climatebomb. He spoked very vivid about this and I thought that the clock at the wall was saying just that, that the environment-clock is ticking-FAST. So I placed myself in line with Mr Wood between me and the clock. With Wood out of focus the reader wood concentrate on the fact that we must do something now. How Michael looks they would see on a additional picture.
But no! The editor/reporter (on this paper the reporters edit there own pages) didn´t want to use the picture because the man was out of focus. It´s just sad, I think. Do I sound bitter again?

I dont tell the writing journalist how to do their jobs, why should they decide wich picture to run in the paper? Why is this so common in smaller market newspapers? Anyone?

Jan Nordström

Photo: Jan Nordström

Jan Nordström är en fantastisk bildjournalist från Kalmar. Hans bilder och texter berör, lämnar ingen oberörd. Han har den närheten i sina bilder som jag söker då jag plåtar. Tyvärr har en annan det så stressigt (skyller jag på?) så man hinner sällan komma så nära en person man porträtterar. Men Janne kan. Enormt nära. Jag blir alltid glad när jag träffar Janne, han har den effekten på något sätt, han bryr sig, det är trevligt.

Igår satt han i SVT´s Eftersnack och pratade om sin nya bok Kärlekheten. Jag blev tung och lätt i sinnet på samma gång, det är en skön känsla på något sätt. Jag gillar ordet Janne myntat: Kärlekheten, liksom närmre än kärlek, som han säger. Det är riktigt bra.
Kolla på programmet HÄR, några dansande tjejer först, spola fram eller titta på dom också.


Photo: Ia Johannesson

Vertigo

Ulf looks down as the wind rocks the small platform that we
are standing on.


Ulf Tideman, Skanska, mounting one of the 24 karat gold crowns
60 meters above the palace yard at the Castle of Kalmar.



Today I have some severe muscle soreness. In just one of my thighs! Why? Yesterday I went up I dont know how many stairs to photograph Ulf Tideman mounting one of the golden crowns on top of The Caslte of Kalmar. 197 feet above the palace yard, thats 60 meters. Oh yeah, it wobbled quite a bit up there.

Well, we went up in an elevator half the way up, but still, there was a few stairs to, I promise...
As I said before, 60 meters on the outside of the tower the wind rocked the aluminium working plattform we stood on, the snow whipped our faces. My collegue, who stayed on a plattform halv the way up, was really small down there. I had fever when I went up so I became windy allmost immediate and maybe the fever caused the muscle soreness?

Untrained? No, how could that be the case, I was once jogging like one kilometer...hmf.

If I´ve knowned that we were going up the tower I would brought me my 10-22mm along with me, but it´s easy to be afterwise. Isn´t it?

By the way! If you have not allready seen it, check out Magnum´s multimedia-piece about wars.
Watch it here.

Bye for now, time for some sleep.

Multimediashooter uppe igen

Flaggan i topp...bilden är från Kalmar FF´s hemmaarena Fredriksskans. KFF brottas fortfarande med det delikata problemet att de inte får spela uefacupkval på skansen. Jobbigt.

Hursomhelst, Richard Koci Hernandez fick ju sin webplats multimediashooter hackad för någon vecka sedan, nu meddelar han till allas vår glädje att den är återställd. Han har även gjort en film om hur du fixar din hackade web på en minut!? Glenlivet spelar en av birollerna...

Kolla in videon HÄR!

Perrelli ready for Belgrad

Charlotte Perrelli sings "HERO" on the stage in Telenor Arena,
Karlskrona. I didn´t use this pic in the paper due to the omnibounce
at the lower part of the picture.

Charlotte Perrelli won the swedish Eurovision Song Contest with her song HERO. It´s has a powerful discotheme and I think it can hit Europe and maybe place itself and Charlotte top 10 in the ESC final in Belgrad this spring. We´ll see about that.

Whatsoever, I´m feeling a bit better now, regarding the illness. (been a bit chesty) On monday I have a meeting that could be exiting. And an commercial assignment for Danish Crown. So I need to get well before that. OK, thats all for now, bye.

Springtime!

Now it's here! The spring is here, to stay I hope. I've been sick for a whole week, just sleeping and sneezing my brain out...Yesterday I did a few jobs anyway, but I was soooo tired! But today the sun is warmin my face and I'm drinking a good quality beer on the porch!!

Tack !

Tack,
säger jag till alla trevliga kollegor för en lika trevlig helg med massor av sköna bilder. Tyvärr hann jag aldrig till galleri Kontrast, vilket retar mig lite grann. Jag hann inte heller prata med alla jag tänkt. Många man vill skaka tass med. Och ett minus i kanten till de märkliga vakterna på Berns! Vad tog det åt dom? Märkligt. Annars var Årets Bild en kul tillställning.

Vad säger ni om Carolyn Cole´s föreläsning?
Den tog slut alldeles för fort, hade gärna hört henne berätta lite mer om bilderna, hennes sätt att jobba etc. Men shit, vad duktig hon är!

Grattis till alla prisvinnare i Årets Bild!

Karl Melander took the Picture of the Year

Foto: Karl Melander

The jury of the 65´th Swedish POY selected Karl Melander´s picture of Cosan´s ethanol factoy outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, to win the title Picture of the Year in Sweden. Karl also won the first prize in the category "Sport Feature" for his reportage about the female boxer Namibia Flores Rodriguez. The whole list of winners can you find here.

Behind the glasses: Karl Melander, at the banquette at
Berns Salonger, Stockholm

For the title "Photographer of the Year" the jury chosed Åke Ericsson, a good choise I think. He also won first prize in the category "Deeper Meening" and also the first prize in "Foreign Reportage". He had a busy year, it seems like.

The banquette after the award-ceremony was held at Berns Salonger in Stockholm. Nice people, nice food and a lot of nice clothing...
HERE you can see me (at left) and Sydsvenskans photographer Lars Dareberg posing for the magazine Kamera&Bild´s editor-in-chief Göran Segeholm´s camera. Do we look good?

By the way, here´s the jury.

Eva Brandt, Photographer from Sweden.
Ayperi Ecer, Vice President Picture Business Development, Paris
Sue Brisk, Editorial Director Magnum Photos, New York
Adam Pretty, Photographer at Getty Images in Beijing
Paula Bronstein, Photographer at Getty Images in Bangkok
Cotton Coulson, Photographer National Geographic, Copenhagen

POY

I´m bringing my new bible with me to Stockholm.
Almost 6.5 Lb (2,9 kg)of good photojournalism.
So if the party sucks, I´m still up for a good time...

The Swedish POY that is. Tomorrow it´s time for our swedish Picture Of the Year, "Årets Bild", so I´m off to Stockholm, by car. No flight suited my timetable. But it´s not that far, five ours drive and I´m there. On friday it´s time for the award-ceremony and after that the banquette, nice.
After saturdays breakfast I´m heading back to Berns for the highlight of the weekend, Carolyn Cole´s lecture !!

A week ago I bought the very heavy book "In our Time" wiht photographs by the Magnum photographers. But because I´ve been away for work and also home with my son I have not been able to as much as looked at it. So I´m bringing it with me on this trip. Might be a bible...
A whole weekend with just pictures and photojournalism, YEEEY !

Hopefully I can publish some pics or funny things from the awards. Stay tuned!

Perreli and Bentzing

The winners. Charlotte Perrelli and Linda Bentzing.

So I´m back from the Eurovision Song Contest-event in Karlskrona, I´ve done my pics, the pages are edited. Here´s a slideshow (silent one) from the event. The Swedish people woted for Charlotte Perrelli and Linda Bentzing so they are done for the finals in Globen, Stockholm. The slideshow shows pictures of the winners on stage, some of the audience trying to get in touch with the artist and of course there are some pictures from the amazing AFTER-PARTY !
We had a great time at the party, so now I must hit the sack...I tell you more about the party later.

Here´s the slideshow.

Eurovision Song Contest

Charlotte Perrelli on stage at the Telenor Arena in Karlskrona, Sweden.

Cookies and Coke, sweaty clothes...
It´s rehearsel repitition(is that really the right word?) in Karlskrona now. Tonight it´s time for the real show. I´m allready tired, but I will shape up for tonights show.
Here´s a little slideshow from the rehearsel. See it here.