Everything Always Happens Now
I began photographing with a friend, when I was in my mid-teens. We borrowed my parents´ compact, digital camera and went for walks around the neighborhood, which included an abandoned airport. We took pictures of ourselves jumping over fences, rocks etc., also filming to make videos and editing the colors in photoshop. These pictures were about us; photography functioned as a means to document what we were making happen in our lives at the time. Later I got more into photography as a way to composing and collecting things I would find that to begin with had nothing to do with me. I found that it was possible to create a relationship to things in your environment. Which in a sense is what you establish with a photograph, a relationship to something you find. This way of looking has almost become a habit, and it took at lot of time realizing what I was actually doing, because I was more concerned with the visual, than I was explaining myself.
Luigi Ghirri and William Eggleston have been big sources of inspiration, the sheer effortlessness of their images is something I´ve always aspired to. I especially admire the variation in Luigi´s pictures, how one image can be nothing like the next. I think seeing their work was what prompted me to look for pictures in the way I did, wanting to do the same. Luckily, impersonating another photographer of that caliber is practically impossible. Any way I went about it I had to deal with my world and my surroundings, for better and for worse.
As for the title it was something I came up with while I was working on a book the past summer. I liked how it bordered on nonsense, but still had a ring of truth to it. I feel it reaches a bit further than I ever intended my photographs to do. I don´t intend my photographs to exclaim: “everything always happens now”, because they are more of a series of ongoing, quiet observations. It´s a statement that illustrates the impossibility of not being present and it relates to the process of taking pictures; the feeling of being present in my surroundings.
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