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Palm Shadows
2019-2024
This series marks the beginning of my journey into still photography.
From 2019 to 2024, I spent long periods working in Mexico.
I wasn’t based there permanently,
but I returned for extended stretches each year as part of various productions.
Over time, something began to shift in how I related to the places I visited.
The making of moving images,
which had been my language for years, suddenly felt too fast, too planned. There were moments in Mexico—sudden, subtle, unscripted—that felt complete on their own. They didn’t need editing or a storyline.
That realization led me to buy my first camera, the Fuji XT-2.
I didn’t set out with a project in mind.
I simply wanted to hold onto the images that wanted to stay with me.
What started as instinct became an obsession, and eventually a direction.
Mexico gave me a new way of seeing.
The contrast between its coastlines and jungles, its cities and silences, its sunlit haze and deep shadows offered something very different from the landscapes I grew up with in Sweden.
A visual notebook from the years when I began to understand that photography is also a way of being present.
Looking back,
I recognize this as my genesis series.
The place where photography first spoke to me clearly.
Where I learned to trust the frame instead of the cut,
and where I discovered that sometimes,
a single image can say more than a thousand...stars.
From 2019 to 2024, I spent long periods working in Mexico.
I wasn’t based there permanently,
but I returned for extended stretches each year as part of various productions.
Over time, something began to shift in how I related to the places I visited.
The making of moving images,
which had been my language for years, suddenly felt too fast, too planned. There were moments in Mexico—sudden, subtle, unscripted—that felt complete on their own. They didn’t need editing or a storyline.
That realization led me to buy my first camera, the Fuji XT-2.
I didn’t set out with a project in mind.
I simply wanted to hold onto the images that wanted to stay with me.
What started as instinct became an obsession, and eventually a direction.
Mexico gave me a new way of seeing.
The contrast between its coastlines and jungles, its cities and silences, its sunlit haze and deep shadows offered something very different from the landscapes I grew up with in Sweden.
A visual notebook from the years when I began to understand that photography is also a way of being present.
Looking back,
I recognize this as my genesis series.
The place where photography first spoke to me clearly.
Where I learned to trust the frame instead of the cut,
and where I discovered that sometimes,
a single image can say more than a thousand...stars.
“There is no forgetting,
but remembering takes a long time.”
but remembering takes a long time.”
- W. S. Merwin (from The Nomad Flute)