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Anders Petersen - Stockholm
May 17, 2019 – September 1, 2019
For four years, photographer Anders Petersen has documented people and urban spaces in Stockholm. The exhibition is a unique portrait of our time, its incitement and resting points, its joy, sorrow and love.
Anders Petersen follows a tradition of Stockholm photographers, but this is the first time he has depicted his own city. He has previously done close-up studies of Café Lehmitz in Hamburg, Gröna Lund and Rome as well as healthcare institutions, circus and prison.
Liljevalch's halls will now be filled from floor to ceiling with hundreds of photographs from life in Stockholm 2015–2018. These are pictures of a rapidly growing city, of everyday life and celebration, of young and old, snowfall over Katarinavägen, a taxi parade on Gärdet, an operating theatre in Danderyd, New Year's Eve celebrations at Skeppsbron's giant tree...
"Anders Petersen is at his best when he freezes the low-key moment," Liljevalch's manager Mårten Castenfors writes in the exhibition catalogue. "A snow-filled and deserted winter street, a look of wonder. Pictures of his incredible sensitivity. His presence and love for what he sees, it can be a human being or a thing that leads us on to an unexpected association."
Photographer and filmmaker Stefan Bladh has followed the work on the Stockholm project and in an 18-minute film gives an insight into Anders Petersen's special way of working; how he meets the inhabitants of the city in their homes or in other environments, how his great interest in people and longing for fellowship gives him an entrance to the close encounter. The film is shown nonstop in one of the exhibition rooms.
Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Stockholm and educated at Christer Strömholm's photography school 1966–68 and The Dramatic Institute 1973–74. Strömholm also became a close and important friend. His first photo book, "Gröna Lund", came in 1973 and then the books have come in a steady stream with texts in English, French, Swedish, German. The exhibitions are countless, in Sweden and around Europe, in Tokyo and New York, Istanbul and Moscow.
Anders Petersen has received a number of different prizes and scholarships, both Swedish and international. In 2003, he received the award "Photographer of the Year" at the major photo festival in Arles, France.
The exhibition at Liljevalchs is open Monday-Friday 10am-5pm and Saturday-Sunday 11am-5pm.
