Fine Art nominee

"In the U.S., what little nudity is permitted is usually shown in a sexual context. This contributes to a perception that we’re supposed to evaluate every naked body we see as a potential sex partner or rival.
Seeing nudes in a museum is one of the only exceptions to this. I don’t think that most of us react to a naked portrait in a museum by thinking “wow, I’d never have sex with that, why is it on display?” or by writing a letter of complaint to the museum director about Rubens’s glorification of obesity.
Therefore, I have framed my models as sculptures and works of art in a museum, in the hope that the viewer will suspend any judgments about whether they find the models sexually attractive or not, or whether their bodies are socially "acceptable". Hopefully this will give the viewer an opportunity to observe the work as they might a classic painting, and discover some aesthetic interest, or even pleasure, in the unique shapes and textures of the models’ bodies."

I was born in Stockholm, Sweden where I spent the first 18 years of my life before moving to London to undertake my graduate studies in Fine Art. I’ve always been fascinated with the human form in all its iterations, particularly the female body.

I am currently based in Los Angeles where I frequently take pictures of female models with body types that aren’t normally featured in photography. I often frame these models in a fine art context (e.g., by portraying them as sculptures in a museum, paintings, etc.) in an effort to halt the viewer from making an immediate sexual value judgment, and hopefully open the door for the viewer to find aesthetic interest in the geometry and textures that make the models’ bodies unique.

I was recently awarded Getty Images' Creative Busary and have been showing my work in group shows at Japanese American Museum of National Art in Los Angeles, Schlifka Molina Gallery of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires as well as Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles. Some of the publications that have showed my work include Paper Mag, Cosmopolitan, Triple J, VICE and Schon.