My father was a skilled amateur photographer and my uncle a professional photographer, so I had many opportunities to learn from them. My first camera was a gift from my father when I was 12 years old. Around the age of 15 I saw a film at school about Louis Pasteur that made me very interested in microscopy. Consequenly, my father also gave me a microscope. Before long I attached my camera to the microscope and around the age of 16-17 I began to collect insects and capture microphotographs.
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In my late teens and early twenties I started to capture portraits of people with an Icoflex Zeiss camera. This was done in a rather different way to what was common at that time. In many cases I visited prominent and well-known people (actors, politicians, Royal family) at their homes in natural situations. It was a kind of documentary photography of well-known people that generated a lot of interest, so I started to work for weekly magazines. In 1954 I published the book “Sweden in Profiles”, a photographic documentary of 87 well-known people. This developed into my mainstream of photography for many years, and today I still do this kind of photography.
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