New blog
I have decided to move my blog to the following adress, please visit my blog there.
http://mattiasjohanssonphotography.blogspot.com
See you !
http://mattiasjohanssonphotography.blogspot.com
See you !
Thoose christmasfairs
As a PJ at a small local newspaper in Sweden you´re supposed to cover all kinds of small events, and one of thoose events are THE LOCAL FAIRS, I dont know the case in the rest of the world but in this part of the globe theres no end of the fairs. It´s new years fair, spring fair, easter fair, regular fair, midsummer fair, summer fair and so on. And all the little villages have there own fairs that we are supposed to cover.
Then it is the fair of all fairs, the christmas fair. They just go on and on and on. You can have like seven of them to cover in a weekend.
This weekend I just have to cover two. Two really small ones, and they are the toughest I think. But never the less, it´s an important task I think, covering theese events that the locals has spend all there free time to create some fun for their neighbours and friends.
Here´s a picture from one of this weekends christmas fairs, and I think (or hope) it shows just this, the locals having fun at the marketplace, meeting old friends and having a shat. In this pic its Stina and Irma ripping up lottery tickets on Rinkabyholms christmas fair in Kalmar. And they really seemed to have a nice time at the fair.
Then it is the fair of all fairs, the christmas fair. They just go on and on and on. You can have like seven of them to cover in a weekend.
This weekend I just have to cover two. Two really small ones, and they are the toughest I think. But never the less, it´s an important task I think, covering theese events that the locals has spend all there free time to create some fun for their neighbours and friends.
Here´s a picture from one of this weekends christmas fairs, and I think (or hope) it shows just this, the locals having fun at the marketplace, meeting old friends and having a shat. In this pic its Stina and Irma ripping up lottery tickets on Rinkabyholms christmas fair in Kalmar. And they really seemed to have a nice time at the fair.
Longing for summer
It´s below zero (Celcius) in Kalmar today. I am freezing. I´ve been taking pics of floorball and christmastree salesmen the whole day. On my desktop I found this image and suddenly I felt this urge for the summer to come marching down the frosty street. I´m really longing for the summer now. Cold beers and barbeque parties. Snorkling and sunbathing, the smell of sunburned skin and so on... My god I love our swedish summers.
This image was part of an article about highschool students summer evening whereabouts.
Thoose summernights...
This image was part of an article about highschool students summer evening whereabouts.
Thoose summernights...
Lars Winnerbäck plays at Kalmar gymnasium
On Sunday evening, the famous swedish singer-songwriter Lars Winnerbäck gave a consert in Kalmar gymnasium.
We photographers are usally just allowed to photograph the first three songs, and what did Winnerbäck do?
He turned of the lights for approx. one and a half song. And no strobes were allowed. I for one think thats kind of funny. Well, I got some pics anyway.
I´m a big fan of Winnerbäck but could only stay for a few songs because of the deadline, but I think thoose who stayed got a really nice and warm evening.
Here´s some more pictures from the consert.
You can also find a few pictures of Lars on my website, in the music-gallery.
We photographers are usally just allowed to photograph the first three songs, and what did Winnerbäck do?
He turned of the lights for approx. one and a half song. And no strobes were allowed. I for one think thats kind of funny. Well, I got some pics anyway.
I´m a big fan of Winnerbäck but could only stay for a few songs because of the deadline, but I think thoose who stayed got a really nice and warm evening.
Here´s some more pictures from the consert.
You can also find a few pictures of Lars on my website, in the music-gallery.
A sweet little show
The Kalmar Institute of Dance showed their skills on saturdays show in Kalmar. Heres som pics from the event. You can also watch a little slideshow I did. No audio tho.
Watch the slideshow here
The dancegroup United showed us some great disco-moves.
Isabelle Jacobson and here friend Ellen Brown enjoyed themselves in the show.
Watch the slideshow here
The dancegroup United showed us some great disco-moves.
Isabelle Jacobson and here friend Ellen Brown enjoyed themselves in the show.
The roughest schoolcompetition of them all
Some pics from the yearly rugby event in Kalmar, when some of the highschools meet up in the roughest of all school-event known to the citizens in Kalmar. School of Lars Kagg VS the schools of Stagnelius and Jenny Nyström.
Two games is played, one for men and one for women. Stagg/Jenny won both the titles.
Watch my audio slideshow here
Two games is played, one for men and one for women. Stagg/Jenny won both the titles.
Watch my audio slideshow here
Tuesdays work
So I´m back in buisness after the stay at the spa. One of the reporters wanted some pictures off politicians sitting on a pressconferense telling us that the community must save 75 million swedish crownes to manage this years spending plan, (or budget). I refused, and instead I went to a local nursing-home for elders. Consider that the politicians want to save the biggest amount of this 75 million on the elders I think theese two images gives the readers much more than the faces of two tired politicians that they´ve allready seen 2467 times this week in our paper (Östran).
What do you think? Did I do the right thing?
Then it was time for a portrait on two students at the school of navigation on the universety of Kalmar. Linda and Mikael is standing in the faked mashineroom of a cargoship, manovering the engines from a computerscreen.
What do you think? Did I do the right thing?
Then it was time for a portrait on two students at the school of navigation on the universety of Kalmar. Linda and Mikael is standing in the faked mashineroom of a cargoship, manovering the engines from a computerscreen.
Back from heaven
Now I am back from a few days in heaven, Ronneby Brunn Spa Hotell in Ronneby. It´s almost insane how relaxed you can be coming home from one of thoose weekends, or weekstart in this case. I am now in love with "floating", this is a wonderful way to relax, it´s a wonder for worned out necks and backs. When you´re floating in that salty water (25% salt) you are infact weihgtless, so your spine stretches out its full length and every muscle in your body will relax. Someone told me that 45 minutes in the closed, totaly black and waterfilled shuttle is equal to 8 hours of sleep for your body. I can strongly recommend this !
Well, heres my wife laughing at the dinnertable one of the evenings.
And heres my wife again. I saw the "flag-like" light in the corridor we walked in and quickly I grabbed hold on my Lumix and shot a frame. Nice I think.
Well, heres my wife laughing at the dinnertable one of the evenings.
And heres my wife again. I saw the "flag-like" light in the corridor we walked in and quickly I grabbed hold on my Lumix and shot a frame. Nice I think.
Me and my Lumix-After work
Me, my Lumix and some colleagues went out partying after work on friday night. Fun. I came home with this strange picture. Kind of nice, I think. Kind of spoky.
Enough for now cause me and my wife are now going on a weekend on Ronneby Spa Hotell to relax, eat amazing dinners and just have a good time, far away from work and newsdesks.
But my little Lumix is stuffed into the bag of course...
Buy, of we go !
Enough for now cause me and my wife are now going on a weekend on Ronneby Spa Hotell to relax, eat amazing dinners and just have a good time, far away from work and newsdesks.
But my little Lumix is stuffed into the bag of course...
Buy, of we go !
Rugby for tough ones
My god, that was difficult. I mean to photograph a bunch of fast swimming guys beneath the suface in a pool.
Yesterday it was time for me to dive down the bottom with my mark II, i´ve allready tested the borrowed Eva-Marine (as you can read in this entry) dd in the tub, but yet I was a bit edgy about the fact that I was going to throw my camera into a 14 feet deep pool. But hey, its insured!
The bag was sealed today to and I was ready to dive into the water. It was like ten years I diving so I think I looked like a bag of potatoes in the water.
It was really, REALLY hard to keep track to this fully skilled divers. They were so fast that as I got up for just a tiny bit of breath they all dissepeared to the other side, and there I stood (more like floating) at the emty side.
I found it almost impossible to find the trigger while under water, because the little finger"glove" for the triggerfinger was made of really thick plastic, I couldn´t feel it. I just fired away from my hip as I tried to get as deep as the rugbyplayers.
But it was fun, so fun that I decided that I´m going to follow the ladies in the mixed group, well its only the ladies that are competing, as they train to enter the swedish championship in UW-rugby. I think Its going to be a nice story.
The bag was sealed today to and I was ready to dive into the water. It was like ten years I diving so I think I looked like a bag of potatoes in the water.
It was really, REALLY hard to keep track to this fully skilled divers. They were so fast that as I got up for just a tiny bit of breath they all dissepeared to the other side, and there I stood (more like floating) at the emty side.
I found it almost impossible to find the trigger while under water, because the little finger"glove" for the triggerfinger was made of really thick plastic, I couldn´t feel it. I just fired away from my hip as I tried to get as deep as the rugbyplayers.
But it was fun, so fun that I decided that I´m going to follow the ladies in the mixed group, well its only the ladies that are competing, as they train to enter the swedish championship in UW-rugby. I think Its going to be a nice story.
Portrait of an optician
Portrait of the optician Jörgen Gustafsson, teacher and researcher at the universety of Kalmar.
No smoke without fire, or?
It was a very non-dramatic firealarm I went on today. Just the roaring sound from the fans that the firebrigade uses to remove smoke from the inside of the appartments with was heard as the firemen took a break waiting for the smoke to dissapear.
Mycket intressant diskussion
This one´s in swedish, sorry.
En mycket intressant diskussion har blossat upp på Adam Haglunds blog. Det började med Adams frågeställning om när en bild övergår från dokumentär till fiktiv. Denna fråga kan tyckas vara enkel att svara på men ack nej, det visade sig vara en svår nöt att knäcka. Det finns kanske lika många svar på frågan som det finns fotografer/bildjournalister.
Läs mer i Adams serie "fakta VS fiktion".
Ja, när övergår egentligen den dokumentära bilden till det fiktiva? Någon påstod att Slitz omslagsbilder är dokumentära i den mening att de skildrar vår samtid, det gör de väl förstås på sitt sätt, men att kalla dem dokumentära, det vet jag inte om jag ställer upp på. Möjligvis kan de vara journalistiska i den bemärkelsen att de skildrar vår samtid och vår syn på kroppen och samhället. Vi frågar vidare:
Dokumentär och verklighet går hand i hand, men är verkligheten alltid dokumentär? Vi måste också skilja på dokumentär fotografi och bildjournalistik. En dokumentär bild skall återge situationen så sanningsenligt att den i framtiden skall kunna fungera som källmaterial. Bildjournalistik däremot, kommer inte alltid att i framtiden kunna användas som källmaterial. Hur gärna vi än vill att våra bilder skall vara dokumentära så vrider och vinklar vi vår verklighet runt oss för att det skall passa vårt reportage och tidningarnas pressläggningstider. Helt omedvetet må hända, men ändå. När vi som reportageteam kommer in på kliniken för barn med svår fetma så ändras ordningen, barnen beter sig inte längre som de skulle gjort om vi inte var där. Då kan vi inte skildra läkarnas arbete med barnen på samma sätt som sker i den verkliga vardagen, hur gärna vi än vill. Men vi kan berätta i bilder hur det dagliga livet på kliniken är och förhåller sig. Vi berättar en historia, det är bildjournalistik, men den är inte helt dokumentär.
Just barnkliniken kanske var ett dåligt exempel men ni förstår vinken? Att vår närvaro skapar situationer som inte annars skulle uppstå. För att skapa helt dokumentära bilder måste man vara osynlig för objektet.
Nu är jag så trött så jag inte vet vad jag skriver, vi får återkomma till dessa frågor. Det är en oändligt spännande diskussion. God natt.
En mycket intressant diskussion har blossat upp på Adam Haglunds blog. Det började med Adams frågeställning om när en bild övergår från dokumentär till fiktiv. Denna fråga kan tyckas vara enkel att svara på men ack nej, det visade sig vara en svår nöt att knäcka. Det finns kanske lika många svar på frågan som det finns fotografer/bildjournalister.
Läs mer i Adams serie "fakta VS fiktion".
Ja, när övergår egentligen den dokumentära bilden till det fiktiva? Någon påstod att Slitz omslagsbilder är dokumentära i den mening att de skildrar vår samtid, det gör de väl förstås på sitt sätt, men att kalla dem dokumentära, det vet jag inte om jag ställer upp på. Möjligvis kan de vara journalistiska i den bemärkelsen att de skildrar vår samtid och vår syn på kroppen och samhället. Vi frågar vidare:
Dokumentär och verklighet går hand i hand, men är verkligheten alltid dokumentär? Vi måste också skilja på dokumentär fotografi och bildjournalistik. En dokumentär bild skall återge situationen så sanningsenligt att den i framtiden skall kunna fungera som källmaterial. Bildjournalistik däremot, kommer inte alltid att i framtiden kunna användas som källmaterial. Hur gärna vi än vill att våra bilder skall vara dokumentära så vrider och vinklar vi vår verklighet runt oss för att det skall passa vårt reportage och tidningarnas pressläggningstider. Helt omedvetet må hända, men ändå. När vi som reportageteam kommer in på kliniken för barn med svår fetma så ändras ordningen, barnen beter sig inte längre som de skulle gjort om vi inte var där. Då kan vi inte skildra läkarnas arbete med barnen på samma sätt som sker i den verkliga vardagen, hur gärna vi än vill. Men vi kan berätta i bilder hur det dagliga livet på kliniken är och förhåller sig. Vi berättar en historia, det är bildjournalistik, men den är inte helt dokumentär.
Just barnkliniken kanske var ett dåligt exempel men ni förstår vinken? Att vår närvaro skapar situationer som inte annars skulle uppstå. För att skapa helt dokumentära bilder måste man vara osynlig för objektet.
Nu är jag så trött så jag inte vet vad jag skriver, vi får återkomma till dessa frågor. Det är en oändligt spännande diskussion. God natt.
To the bottom with it
On tuesday I´m going to do a story on a couple of guys diving into a pool playing underwater rugby football. For that I have borrowed an Eva-Marine underwater housing (U-AXP) from a friend. He wasn´t sure its 100% sealed so what to do?
I told my son it was tub-time, he loves bathing, and then I pull down the housing in the bathtub and he did the rest to test the sealing...
Theres a little "glove" just for the triggerfinger, but the plastic is so thick so I cant really feel the trigger so for once its actually nice that the camera vibrates when the mirror opens.
I might buy one for myself, theres a lot of jobs you can do under water. Nice.
Regarding the test in the tub:
The camera was dry as a throat in the dessert !
Me and my son testing the underwater housing in the tub.
Photo: Charlotte Johansson
I told my son it was tub-time, he loves bathing, and then I pull down the housing in the bathtub and he did the rest to test the sealing...
Theres a little "glove" just for the triggerfinger, but the plastic is so thick so I cant really feel the trigger so for once its actually nice that the camera vibrates when the mirror opens.
I might buy one for myself, theres a lot of jobs you can do under water. Nice.
Regarding the test in the tub:
The camera was dry as a throat in the dessert !
Me and my son testing the underwater housing in the tub.
Photo: Charlotte Johansson
Now playing on MediaStorm
MediaStorm recently published a three-part multimedia series done by Los Angeles Times photojournalist Luis Sinco.
It´s called The Marlboro Marine and tells the story about Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller who struggles against post-traumatic stress disorder and tries to put his life together after his tour of duty in Irak.
Watch the project at MediaStorm.org
It´s called The Marlboro Marine and tells the story about Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller who struggles against post-traumatic stress disorder and tries to put his life together after his tour of duty in Irak.
Watch the project at MediaStorm.org
