Issue23 (part3) May 2017

Photographer Johnny Lindahl (Denmark)
Tell us something about yourself
I live in the city of vikings Roskilde in Denmark. I am
educated as a craftsman, and studied later as an
engineer with specialization in management. I am and
have always been nerded and little of an rebel asking
questions about everything existentially, professional,
personal and social. Can it be done differently, must it
necessarily be like this way and so on. Personally, I am
a very searching, creative in thought and action
person.
How and when did you get into photography?
I was initiated in the art of photography by my
grandfather at age of 12. Here I learned the analog
way in his darkroom, after our photograph walks
around city and in the nature. Here was the foundation
laid out, and in the following years. I had photo
4. years in youth school, and later as an elective
course during my education as a blacksmith. So, a real
autodidact photographer.
What does photography mean to you?
The photography is for me my meta room. Here I
can be creative in every imaginable way. Rules are
learned, and now I spend a lot of time breaking or
challenging them so new opinions and expressions
can be created. The photography gives me freedom
and enriches me by experiencing the feelings of
others positive, critical, wondering with their
optics. Shortly said. I can not help photographing.
Please briefly describe your photography style for
our readers.
My style. Hmmm yes. I love to play with light and
the shadows, to go close to the model and create a
relational feeling in my pictures. I often seek to
break the norms and dragging the model out of
heres comfort zone, creating a space of creative
energy and a common sense for the theme. I think
the expressing in the pictures makes it´s own talk.
It must then be up to the eyes that look, to
evaluate the style and the expression in them.
Pernille Wore
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