Exhibition "Ovisst" by Ingmar Lundberg

Ingmar Lundberg - photo exhibition

To Tora, Viveca and Isa

"I fell in love with the art of photography when I became familiar with French street photography in the 1960s, and my great role model was Henri Cartier-Bresson. He photographed intuitively and so do I. Often it is the decisive moment that counts, but sometimes you have more time, and then you can compose the picture. Before the serious traffic accident in 1983, I mostly photographed in black and white, after that color came into the picture. I became more subjective, and half of the images in the exhibition become more semi-abstract with a symbolic meaning. I am a romantic and a minimalist by nature. I still photograph but to a much smaller extent than before. You have to do what you love to do as long as you can!”

Ingmar Lundberg recently turned 90 years old. He is still active in the creative field and is passionate about the art of photography. He was born in 1932 in Helsinki, and has lived in Mariehamn since 1998. His works have been represented at the Photography Museum in Stockholm, the Nordic Museum Stockholm, the Finnish Museum of Photography Helsinki, the Åland Art Museum, Åbo Akademi's library, Mariehamn City Library, the Åland Peace Institute and Anders Wiklöf's art collection on Andersudde.

The exhibitor himself has told us that he loves the classic medium of photography, its ability to document the immediate, to capture an event that lasted just a moment. Experience has taught him to distinguish his motives from the massive range of impulses in his surroundings. He finds the motifs in everyday life in the city and in nature where time and the forces of nature have left their mark. The pictures often have a symbolic content and to the expression he is both an ascetic and a romantic.

The exhibition consists only of works not previously shown.

What? Photo exhibition "Ovisst" (translated til english "Uncertain")
Artist? Ingmar Lundberg
When? 30.8-20.9
Open Mon-Fri, at 10-16
Vernissage 30.8, at 14-16
Where? Nordic Institute on Åland, Storagatan 9

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