Series - FotoSlovo 2025 - Category « Black and White »
Gold Medal
These images are a part of my ongoing project about Folkungatan, a street in Stockholm.
I partly grew up on Folkungagatan without ever living there. It was where my friends were, where we had our first legal beers, where I felt almost at home. The street is almost a highway, almost a bar street, almost ugly, almost beautiful. Dense traffic collides with youthful spirit searching for something more.
Folkungagatan is a photographic exploration of space and human presence. The series captures the harsh urban landscape against the quiet resilience of its people. Black and white images with stark, energetic blacks enhance a sense of disorientation, inside and outside at once, included and excluded. This mirrors my own experience: outgoingly shy, torn between connection and observation.
Despite its cold exterior, the street holds warmth. Its people, fleeting or permanent, carry dreams and hopes beneath the city’s indifferent facade. This contrast between the ugly beauty of the street and the intimate stories within is the heart of Folkungagatan.
