About

I am a photographer and visual anthropologist currently based in Sweden. I received my PhD in 2020 and I am now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Linköping University, Sweden.

Working entirely with analogue techniques, I utilise the textures of the grain and the slower process of chemical development, held together with a palette of blue-greens and soft browns inspired by the Swedish landscape and the film occupying the camera.

As an anthropologist I am primarily interested in landscape relations, understanding them as made up of human, non-human, and more-than-human interactions, in which materials and forces cross borders and co-exist. I am interested in finding ways to explore this through visual methodologies in which images and image-objects bring landscapes into the artistic process. I am especially interested in the precarious present experienced in tension with historical land-use, resource extraction, and emerging imagined futures, as well as the complexities of ‘climate scepticism’ and different kinds of environmental discourses.

My PhD in visual anthropology brought together analogue and experimental photography, writing, and research in a visually focussed project exploring emplaced relationships to landscape in Northern Sweden and the rejection of national climate change discourses. Photography was woven into the core of my research project and I experimented with older techniques including cyanotypes and photograms, as well as the discursive spaces of exhibitions. I have published in Visual Anthropology Review, Anthropology News, Anthropology Matters, Kulturella Perspektiv and the edited volume Disturbed Ecologies. I worked with Nordiska Museet on their exhibition Arktis - medan isen smälter [The Arctic - while the ice is melting] and accompanying volume Arktiska spår: Nature och kultur i rörelse, which can be found here.

Since completing my PhD I have worked on a short visual project at Tarfala Research Station in the Swedish Arctic, spent Spring 2022 as a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich, completed a pilot project at the Nordic Museum examining the changing more-than-human relations in the Boreal forest and have written a critical overview of Swedish forest scholarship funded by KSLA (currently being prepared for publication). I am now based at Linköping University working on a project concerning landscape relations and data infrastructures as well as a project examining how people return to lost or changed forests in rural Sweden.

I have worked as a photographer in the UK and Sweden. Clients include Somerset House Trust, Somerset House Studios, The Francis Gahan Band, Ändebols Gård, MARGUERITE, Arjeplognytt, IKWRO, Björksättra gård, and Birgittas Trädgård. I have had work shown in Lantliv, VICE, The Daily Mirror, Portrait Salon 2015, TimeOut London, Arts Council England, Reuters, The Wall St International and Nordiska Museet. My fine art prints feature in collections in the UK and in Sweden.

Selected works are available as fine art prints.