Ewa Stackelberg was initially a documentary photographer working in Sweden and abroad. In october 1997 her husband of twenty years died in an airplane accident in Costa Rica, and she suddenly found herself alone with two children. This accident changed her life. She was flung into darkness and her way of getting out was to work. But in the midst of a horrific experience a surprising artistic freedom opened up. Her world was shattered and trying to master reality by making depictions of it was no longer possible. The only solution was to find another language. She started to make photograms - photographic images without a camera, produced on photosensitive material, a method were chance and exploration are important ingredients. In her darkroom she wanted to find the origin of all things and suddenly another world appeared from something as concrete as soil, intestines, leaves, water and clay. A long journey had started, with both death and life present.
The exhibition ”Photograms” was first presented in Fotografiska in Stockholm 2015
and has since then been shown i Sweden and Denmark.
Exhibitions- Awards etc, see the homepage www.ewastackelberg.se
