Current events
--2015--
November 21 - Deember 31
WHAT BORDER HAVE YOU CROSSED?
Bordr interactive concept exhibition at Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, New York City
--2014--
July 8 - 26
Guiding assignment, Tours of the World, "Mongolia and Tibet": China, Tibet, Mongolia
May 1 - August 31
Part of Not Quite 20-14 exhibition, Fengersfors, Sweden
April 9 - May 7
Guiding assignment, Tours of the World, "Himalaya": China, Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, India
March 5
Deadline for "Europe Grand Central", ambitious application to the EU Creative Europe Program for two year program in six countries based on Project Borders methodology.
--2013--
November 9 - December 4
Project Borders concept and vision exhibition, Steneby Konsthall, Steneby School of Art and Design, Gothenburg University, Dals Långed
September 14
Border walk between Vänersborg and Trollhättan organized by Vittring as part of the extended Gothenburg International Biennal for Contemporary Art.
May 17
Launch of photo book "TRETTIO". A celebration of photography school Nordens Fotoskola at its 30th annivesary with photographs from 30 of its former students. I am honored to have four pictures included from my project A Line Across China. Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm
May 7
Launch of book "Paddla i Dalsland - de finaste turerna mellan Norge och Vänern". Photography and text covering 600 kilometers of kayaking, and cultural history, across the lakes and canals in southeast Norway, Dalsland and south Värmland. Bengtsfors, biblioteket, 6pm
May 4 - September 1
Exhibition Not Quite Why at Not Quite Art Collective in Fengersfors, Sweden. Project Borders has produced an interactive digital border guest book.
January 15
Project Borders lecture at the Museum of Work, Norrköping
6pm, free entry.
--2012--
September 29 - February 2 (2013)
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders (Handlare) and interactive multimedia projection Project Borders shown at the Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden
September 15 - October 1
Guiding assignment, bicycling in Sichuan, Tours of the World, China
August - January (2013)
Producing a photographic exhibition about statelessness in Jordan based on a lending camera technique (part of Project Borders). For Open Society Foundations, Jordan/New York
Summer 2012
Book project Paddla i Dalsland, Kayak in Dalsland, producing the first guide book to the Swedish province of Dalsland in text and photographs for Calazo Publishers to be translated into German and English. Project completion by fall 2012. Sweden
May 16
Graduating from the Master of Arts program in International Political Journalism at Columbia University in New York.
--2011--
2011-09-01 to 2012-05-16
Fulbright Scholar in International Political Journalism at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City
September 2011
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders shown at the SADC Social Forum, Zambia
2011-08-06 to 2011-08-08
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders shown at Johannesburg Book Fair, South Africa
2011-07-16 to 2011-08-01
Trecking guide assignment in Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan, for Världens Resor
2011-02-15 to 2011-04-20
Production Assistant at Part2Pictures Documentary film production company, New York City. Working on the documentary Engineering Ground Zero, about the reconstruction of the World Trade Center.
--2010--
2010-11-01 to 2010-11-30
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders shown at Gallery Vansa, Cape Town, South Africa
2010-10-25
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders shown in Maputo, Mozambique
2010-10-22
Photographic Exhibition Across African Borders shown in Blantyre, Malawi
2010-09-23 to 2010-09-26
Photographic Exhibition Handlare shown at the Gothenburg Book Fair, Se Människan
2010-08-22
Move to New York City to start the Master of Arts program in Media Studies at The New School University
2010-08-21 (shown until 2010-09-19)
Opening of the photographic exhibition Handlare, Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm, 12-16
2010-08-13
Opening of the photographic exhibition Across SADC Borders (Handlare), Heja Game Lodge, Windhoek, Namibia, 18.30-19.45
2010-07-01
Awarded a scholarship grant by the West Sweden Cultural Council, for Master studies in the US
2010-05-25
Move to Steneby, Dalsland, Sweden
2010, February to June
Project leader for the large scale interactive photographic project Handlare/Across SADC Borders, covering Cross Border Trade between Southern African countries for Economic Justice Network, Cape Town. Eight traders in Malawi and Mozambique document their own lives for two months.
2010-03-27 until 2010-04-07
Guide in Bhutan, Nepal and India for Världens Resor
2010-02-25
Awarded a scholarship grant from the Sweden- America Foundation for Master studies in the US 2010-2011
--2009-
2009-12-26
Photography work for Men´s Journal, covering Cape Town
2009-12-12
Work for the Swedish Football Association covering young football players in the Cape Town townships of Guguleto and Khayelitsha
2009-10-15
Awarded a study grant by the Swedish Picture Suppliers Association for Master studies in the US 2010-2011
2009-09-16 until 2009-10-14
Guide in China, Tibet and Nepal, Mt Everest and Mt Kailash, for Världens Resor
2009-08-01
Lecture on the project "A Line Across China" at the Sigtunahöjden Conference Centre, Sigtuna, Sweden
2009-07-29 until 2009-08-02
Photographic exhibition "A Line Across China", showed at Sigtunahöjden Conference Centre, Sigtuna, Sweden
2009-07-16 until 2009-07-22
Assignment for leading Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet and Magazine Åka Skidor covering skiing in Lesotho Southern Africa
2009-06-16
Accepted as a Fulbright Grantee for Master studies in the US 2010- 2011
2009-04-22
Election observer, South Africas National and Provincial Elections, Athlon, Cape Town
2009-02-15
Move to Cape Town, South Africa
2009-02-03
Lecture on the project "A Line Across China" at the China-Sweden Society in Malmö
--2008--
2008-11-05
Lecture on the project "A Line Across China" at ABF in Stockholm 18:30
2008-10-18 until 2008-10-28
Assignment for leading Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet covering the peace process of Nepal
2008-09-25 until 2008-10-18
Guide in China, Tibet and Nepal, Mt Everest, for Världens Resor
2008-09-16
Lecture on the project "A Line Across China at Sambiblioteket in Härnösand
2008-09-06
Opening of the photographic exhibition A Line Across China, Sambiblioteket, Härnösand
2008-07-26/27
Participation at the Dalsland Book Fair, Håverud, Dalsland, Lecturing and Book signing
2008-07-16
Participation on the show Good morning Sweden! on national television Channel 1, 08:15 - 08:30
2008-07-14
Participation in the national radio show P4 Extra
2008-05-28 until 2008-07-08
Assignment for leading Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet covering the border regions of China; Yanbian by North Korea, Ordos in Inner Mongolia, Khotan in Xinjiang and Xishuangbanna by Burma and Laos. Also follow up on the Sichuan Earthquake
2008-05-24
Opening of the photographic exhibition A Line Across China, Museum of Work, Norrköping
2008-04-10
Opening of the photographic exhibition A Line Across China, Galleri Kontrast, Stockholm
2008-02-06
Participation in the show Malous book club on national Channel 4, 11:00 - 11:30
--2007--
2007-11-19
30 minutes interview in the show Samtal Pågår, national radio programme 1, 10:30-11:00
2007-11-15 until 2007-11-18
Participation at the Paris Photo Photography fair
2007-11-04
Lecture at the Scandinavian Geographic Society, Småland
2007-10-30
Release date for the Swedish version of the book En linje över Kina (A Line Across China)
2007-10-28
Full seven page interview in leading Swedish broadsheet Svenska Dagbladet
2007-10-26
Participation on the show Good morning Sweden! on national Channel 1, 08:15 - 08:30
2007-09-28
Book signing at The Gothenburg Book Fair, Alfabeta's stall.
2007-09-27
17.00-17.45, hall G4
Large seminar at the Gothenburg Book Fair.
Presentation of the book En linje över Kina
Talk and slideshow with journalist John Chrispinsson.
