Fine Art nominee

The Muse, digital photography, 45x30inches / 45x45inches

I am interested in challenging the concept of photography as a modernist medium through creating images that are not only inspired by the sculptural, painting and sculptural arts, but are approached as if they were created in a different medium altogether.

I frequently frame my subjects in a natural environment or fine art context, not only in an effort to halt the viewer from making an immediate sexual value judgment, but to hopefully open the door for the viewer to find aesthetic interest in the geometry and textures that make the models’ bodies unique.

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.