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Pretto film
I usually claim I make pictures with the camera as a tool. I mainly work digitally but consider my way of working to still have many similarities to the analogue photo process; both how I work with the motifs and in the subsequent work with selection and editing. In the digital darkroom, almost nothing is done that cannot be done in an analog photo lab. Personal projects, photo books and exhibitions are my main focuses, but you are always welcome to contact me for collaborations.
I also work with analogue photography in my personal projects. I use different cameras. A Kodak Brownie Starlet from the late 1950s, read more here. An ongoing project with colour film, out of date. An old camera from 1959, Olympus Wide with a 35mm lens, now with a slow shutter. Read more here. Could be fun to work with again. Polaroid cameras. No film in stock any longer for my Polaroid EE66 though, read more here. I also have a Polaroid 1000 with instant film in b/w and colour, read more here. New projects ahead.
I have an old archive with slide film. I'm always searching for pictures to use, some of them already used in my photo books.
Listen with your eyes.
There is a lot to be said about photography. Or not. Just let it be.
Hopefully, when you are watching a photo-graph, sometimes a magic, mystical clock-work will start the engine and take you for a ride.
HOW TO BUY A PRINT
If you are interested in buying a print, just send me an e-mail with your request.
Fine Art Prints are printed by Konstexpo on Hahnemühle Photo Rag 308 g or similar.
Images are printed on demand and are inspected, signed, dated and numbered by me.
I photograph beds where I as a body have laid. An aerial space, most often on the first or second floor, where I return. A temporary lodging, albeit a home for the Night.
The best milieu for me is one where it is almost entirely impossible to photo-graph, where you kind of have to make something out of nothing.
Gunnar Smoliansky
It wasn’t the old town he missed, but the life that has passed.
Once and again, it is proven, that nothing becomes what you think. At best similar – but always different. Like reality in a dream.
A building is almost always at the same time environment, a temporal symbol and psychology.
E X H I B I T I O N S
Saatchi Art - 100 Curators 100 Days 2012. The largest online art exhibition created by curators from the most prestigious museums and galleries around the world. Participated with one of my photographs, Strindberg 2012. Curated by Peter MacGill, President Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.
The Free Photographer's Department at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Participated with three photographs. November 25 2016 - January 29 2017.
Solo Exhibition at Galleri Korn. Stockholm 13 - 19 October 2017.
Review - Epsteins Sthlm, Dagens Nyheter (Facebook)
Den konstnärligt begåvade byggnadsanti-kvarien Bo G Svensson ställer ut suggestiva, medvetet komponerade fotografier, stock-holmsvyer, skuggspelet i enskilda byggnads-partier, sprickor i stenläggningen, strukturer ur verkligheten kort sagt. Estetiskt och vackert.
DN, Epsteins sthlm, Lars Epstein
Presentation: BO G SVENSSON, stilla och rörlig bild. Jag färdas på parallella vägar; Tjänstemannaautostradan och Bildstigen. Som byggnadsantikvarie arbetar jag med att säkra spåren efter förflutenhetens landskap med stoppunkt en generation bakåt. Att göra förståeligt flydda tiders segrar och ibland förluster. Att säkerställa och vårda dessa avtryck som befinner sig under ständig nedbrytning. Det är lag på det – ett uppdrag givet av kung och riksdag. Vi gick på vaktpasset 1666. Antikvarierna – ett Väktarnas Sällskap, som vore vi en del av en romankonstruktion av Umberto Eco. Det är mörkt omkring mig, skaldade Cornelis Vreeswijk. Franz Kafka har sagt: ”We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.” Jag söker ljuset i det vardagliga. Mitt ljus är ibland mörkret. Att avtäcka – om så bara för mina ögon – spåren och tecknen som vi människor lämnar överallt. Ibland fula, ibland vackra, alltid talande. Överlagrad tid, sönderfallets skönhet, ett eftermiddagsljus som faller över en putsad fasad och framkallar minnen och stämningar – där finns mitt kameraöga. Jag fotograferar det som jag känner är en pusselbit av det som har blivit jag. Minne och glömska är varandras förutsättningar. Minnen skapas, ombildas, skapas på nytt; förskjutna. Några (minnes-)bilder förblir dock knivskarpa. Jag reser vidare.
The Free Photographer's department at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm. Participated with six photographs. March 02 – April 22 2018.
The Free Photographer's department at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Studion, in Stockholm. Participated with six photographs from my series "Kalmar". January 26 – Februrary 17, 2019.
One of my photographs used in the digital poster.
Two great filmmakers, Jan Lindqvist and Carl Henrik Svenstedt, visited me before we sneaked out for a coffee.
The Free Photographer's department at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, Under Fontänen (Sergels torg), in Stockholm. Participated with one (well) photograph. 50 photographers displayed on a big screen May 18 – August 31, 2020 .
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