ROOTS is an ongoing photographic project that began in autumn 2025. I

move through the clear-cut forests around my village Dals Långed, Sweden, looking at what remains when the trees fall. When a forest disappears the landscape changes, but so do the relationships between people, animals, memories and the ground that holds us. In this project I try to follow the traces of what once existed, as well as the uncertainty of what is yet to come.

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I work with fog, rain, clouds and untamed weather in combination with long exposures to soften the contours and give the images a moment of breath.

For me, this atmosphere holds a quiet tension, a space where loss and

possibility coexist and where an uncertain future becomes visible without being stated directly.

 

Sometimes my children appear in these landscapes. They move through landscapes shaped by adults. Their presence brings innocence into a scarred and tough environment as well as a sense of hope and softness. Their movement becomes a way to look forward and backward at once, reflecting on what remains when roots are broken.

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ROOTS is my ongoing dialogue with the place I live in. It seeks to

understand what binds us to the land and what happens when those ties shift. The images do not conclude anything; they open a space where viewers can feel what is at stake and perhaps sense another way of seeing the landscape, one that holds both beauty and fragility.

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Through this work, I want to draw attention to a process that often occurs quietly, almost unnoticed around us. Roots invite the viewer to pause, look closely, and consider the emotional and ecological impact of these disappearing forests and changing landscapes.

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This project asks a simple but urgent question: What landscape 

will our children inherit, and will they recognize their roots?