Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda are three countries that are suffering from Post Genocide and
Post War stress syndrome. Spark Micro Grants is an organization that have taken on the
task to try to help villages in the hills to get back on track agin and believe in them
self that they can make a difference in their own lives. Spark does this through helping
them develop project and follow through which hopefully will lead them to continue doing
this on their own. I was invited in to document Sparks work in these areas.
Swedish born New York residing photographer. Raised in a theater family with writers and painters in the expanded family. Started out as a photo journalist and segued into advertising photography and lately Fine Arts. Also shoot documentary still stories when a topic or story sounds interesting. Latest was a one month stint in Eastern Africa with the Spark Micro Grants NGO. The personal project I did there was a series of portraits which was exhibited at Fotografiska in Stockholm as well as MOCADA museum in Brooklyn.
Awards AI-AP 32
Communication Arts 13
Graphis Photography 2015, 2014
Creative Quarterly 53, 42, 39, 35, 31,
One Eyeland, 2018, 2014
APANY
APA, 2018
American Aparture (AX3)
PX3, 2018
Applied Arts,
