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If I were a time of day I would be dusk.I'm an intuitive photographer with a love for Impressionism and Japanese woodblock prints. I draw inspiration from Impressionism when painting with the camera, using long shutter speed and hand movements. The human eye only focuses on one thing at a time and leaves the rest unfocused and soft. That particular feature of Impressionism I bring into my nature photography. Both techniques come together in feeling. To me, being in nature with the elements is one of my greatest joys. Photography is also an experience beyond the tangible. It's a journey from mindfulness to flow and onwards.
The water and the forest are part of my roots, and most probably yours too. A forest is a place for rambling and roving. You eat blueberries directly from the bush. You sit on a moss-covered stone, talking to the animals. Then you go to the water. My favourite time is the orange, the gold, and the blue hours when sunset walks into twilight. Living in Västerås, Sweden, by Lake Mälaren stretching all the way to Stockholm, I'm blessed with horizons from every point of the compass. I like to dwell in the light of the setting sun, staying until it's dark and the temperature drops - just for that one last picture. In mindfulness and flow, yours truly Agneta M. Lindh |
LINKING WORLDS:
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Linking Worlds is a project without borders where people from all walks of life meet to make art and write inspired by a theme. 2021 saw 37 participants from 18 countries come together around the theme A Friend. As time passes, the clearer it becomes: we are not alone, we are all one.
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Linking Worlds 2021
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Exhibitions Sweden1998-2021
Collaborations Sweden
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International CollaborationsLINKING WORLDS: international art and literary collaboration
Anthologies:
INTERNATIONAL ONLINE EXHIBITION
INTERNATIONAL ART COLLABORATIONS - Arts & Inquiry LI
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"The content in the photo series MOMENTS is colour and feelings, and the pictures are taken in flow, contemplation, and epiphany - me becoming One with Nature as I go to the woods and the water. It is about photography making you mindful by seeing the details using all your senses."
- AGNETA M. LINDH
MOMENTS:
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Learning something new, adding to knowledge and skills, finding joy in talking about photography together, and finding inspiration - that is what the Photography Specialisation MOOC with Michigan State University at Coursera means to me. Between 2016, and 2017 I finished the five courses, and the last one was the Capstone. I set out to work with the colour wheel of Nature by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The exhibition MOMENTS was a labour of love basking in light and shadows, colours, and the intention to convey my feelings in a picture. From 2017 to 2020, I was happy to be a course mentor for the Capstone project, the last course in the specialization. Now part of the alumni group, I enjoy having a circle of friends where photography is in focus, and we develop and hone our skills inspired by each other.
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Project review by Professor Peter Glendinning, Michigan State University:
“The sequencing of this project is so clearly purposeful, leading the viewer on a journey from the most dramatic contrast and most recognizable visual element (the human head), to the edges of extreme softness where the thing that happened to be in front of the camera begins to cease to exist and its pure essence is revealed. Not that pure essence cannot be revealed in a high contrast silhouette, and it surely is in your first picture, but for most people I think the progression of poetic statements that you've put together will be seen culminating in that most visually experimental final image. Your sensitivity to content in the most ordinary of things, seen through interpretation of light and shadow, is clearly on display here, and appreciated. I hope you'll make more pictures in this "light" and find opportunities to create further series/sequences.”
The Jourey ContinuesPeople want to progress. Sometimes in solitude, sometimes together. Together is fun. I belong to two international photo groups that have come together from the Michigan State University MOOC and Photography Specialization via Coursera. It's soon two years since the monthly group Another Perspective started and a year for The Journey Continues. We span 18 times zones from Arizona to Japan, from morning into the small hours.
We show our photographs, talk about the techniques, inspire and celebrate each other's accomplishments. In the weekly group, we work with a new theme each time. That is both creative and a challenging. That is where we grow. |
Breakfast in the ship setting.
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Anundshög ship setting from the top of the Viking mound at sunrise.
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