Leaving and arriving .
Returning to Sweden after many years of living abroad, awoke a need in me to document my own life. I found myself in big changes in an everyday life of which I was no more accustomed, in this country full of contrasts, as the season of it’s year...the long and dark winter, followed by the springtime with a very strong sense of awakening, ending in the summer, short and intense, where people seem to absorb the light as the flowers absorb water.

My culture , places where I grew up , the way of living had now had become a novelty, a curiosity and sometimes a difficulty . All this brought to light in me the desire to photograph these things of which I used to be blind, the beauty of the woods that begins behind the house and never ends , waking up to find the world insulated by a white cover of soft snow , or simply the beauty of my father sleeping like a baby . I started to photograph everything that surrounded me and everything that I encountered, and for the first time I permitted myself to use my camera as a diary and the photographs as notes...notes of my state of mind, of my family that was close to me again and of the people who I had left behind.

These photos are the result of my return in Sweden and the time I spent there.