Watch ANDERS PETERSEN: WITHOUT LONGING NO IMAGE (2019)

Synopsis

Born in 1944, Swedish photographer Anders Petersen is a living legend of photography. His high-contrast black-and-white images have left a lasting mark on an entire generation with their raw and deeply personal approach to documentary photography. As a major retrospective of his work is being prepared at Liljevalchs in Stockholm — the largest solo photography exhibition ever held in Sweden — Anders Petersen is in the midst of a four-year project: photographing his city, Stockholm. Immersed in his daily life as a photographer, we follow him as he reflects on his journey and his practice while sharing his vision of photography, one that is as singular as it is profoundly human.

What you will find in this film

A major figure in contemporary photography • humanity first • visual expressiveness • the daily life of a photographer • a life devoted to photography • an instinctive photographic language • A raw and sensitive gaze • the intimacy of the documentary gaze

Keywords

Reportage & Society Analogue Photography Masters of Photography The Artist at Work

The word « longing » is absolutely crucial for photography in general. In all the images you see, there is a searching, a longing, that can be expressed in different ways. But the longing that is in me is very existential.

Anders Petersen Photographer

I’m interested, not in taking pictures all the time, but it’s in people that I’m interested. What they do, and why they do things… when I pose questions like that, I feel a part of the whole.

Anders Petersen Photographer

Photography is about being surprised and surprising.

Anders Petersen Photographer

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