PEOPLE: MONTH #037
"meeting s very exceptional swedish artist with a lot of the character other sweds tend to lack and getting to know about her life in england where she almost got marries and also meeting an architect running a small gallery trying to do somathing there with jacek and ivan also meeting other artists following jacek to various evening events to second him in the creation of a design studio i did not believe in from the beginning but also meeting a father of a kid letting my son play in aspudden on the way back to our apartment there and getting to know better som =e of my design students like a icelandic nice guy son of a famous filmmaker"
PEOPLE: MONTH #038
"getting to know better more of my art students in stockholm like a crazy half german fashion designer living with a friendly iranian and more japanese students right before the swedish government put an outrageous tuition fee for non europeans decimating all the masters i was teaching and also in berlin traveling with my family there to follow my girlfriend at a conference meeting more japanese artists especially one illustrator with me at a nice playground on the other side of the old synagogue and also playing pool at the hostel where we were staying a quite aggressive swedish guy"
PEOPLE: MONTH #039
"in instanbul with jacek taking a very long walk there and staying at a greek run hostel by taxim square and there meeting some wonderful folk like a sweet american traveler venturing quite much in the country all the way to capadocia and some musicians but also a quite dodgy albanian with a lot of preconceptions and some other travelers but also instanbul people met crossing on the asian side even a photographer who improvised a lecture for us in his school"
PEOPLE: MONTH #040
"meeting more istanbul based local people who did not know any word of english but sort of wanted to get to know me ad=nd jacek walking in a few days more than hundred kilometers and also meeting afghan refugees working as cleaners in our rundown hostel and back in stockholm teaching to my new students most of them blond and from sweden or the netherlands with no non european enrolling after new rules were set to make them pay incredible fees"
PEOPLE: MONTH #041
"meeting one more of my students this time from romania and feeling more tuned with her organizing crazy workshops in the city and then departing by boat to finland and in the night on the boat meeting two italian girls and once in helsinki staying at my russian friend's pyotr apartment meeting the girlfriend he later only married to get his citizenship to divorce her again soon after also meeting two nice american guys and then out for dinner with my friend pyotr meeting his turkish friend together with also a finn"
PEOPLE: MONTH #042
"back teaching at the college of art and design in stockholm meeting more of my swedish students and also researchers such as a scientist dealing with the pain of dying people attending his workshop and later taking many flights back and forth to italy meeting many young italians like me who came to sweden a decade later than i did and were all researchers in the swedish academia"
PEOPLE: MONTH #043
"still in italy helping out a black nice guy i met on the train and then meeting on the bus to the airport an italian guy from my parents town also living abroad later getting back to helsinki to attend an art festival and getting to know more interesting artists however with the optic of my camera not working anymore and trying anyway to photograph them including a crazy australian girl who really much sought companionship and a nice and creative italian couple very enthusiast about my project"
PEOPLE: MONTH #044
"still in helsinki meeting a cool estonian artist and then a very sweet finnish girl spending the night with them roaming around the city before returning with the cruise back to sweden and sharing a small room at the bottom of the boat with an english born texas citizen getting to talk a lot with him about his past as a traveler but really regretting having a broken optic to properly photographing and later making it to poland and more specifically to krakow staying at my polish friend's place and getting to meet a spanish girl living there but also a quite capricious and cute artist friend of my friend jacek and also getting to spend quite some time with jacek's father getting to know his past as a theater stage design later giving a workshop for young polish people and meeting some cool characters and the beautiful maia filming with them around the city in a russian constructivist fashion"
PEOPLE: MONTH #045
"meeting one more nice spanish painter living in krakow and trying with her and jacek to organize a show of our work and then meeting a quite big half hungarian lady who was much into promoting in culture but also was very much into having affairs with other guys and getting some assistance from her after getting food poisoned at a cheap caffeteria meeting also a totally wasted pole and then getting visited by iwan from budaspest who has been photographing the food he has been eating for years and treated me almost as a master later also meeting another wasted guy with his girlfriend friend of the half hungarian big lady and lastly spending an evening with the sweeter friends of jacek in their house in krakow watching animations and hailing the small books of my drawings i printed in the city"
PEOPLE: MONTH #046
"spending quite some time with jacek's brother working as an architect but also playing in a rock band and complaining about the polish salary situation in comparison with the rest of europe and meeting also his lazy and well off girlfriend maria before making it in time for the summer to sweden living at my parents-in-law in the country waiting to move in our new apartment in the nort of stockholm and really feeling quite depressed about it and at last only meeting an hitchhiker girl with many stories to tell only convincing my wife to go for a short holiday in spain so as to also attend my half sister graduation in madrid and then catching the train to malaga and meeting there the half german boyfriend of tatiana our old friend from our time spent in shanghai and back in sweden traveling all the way to a small norwegian island to attend the wedding celebration of my friend asmund and his japanese wife meeting another sort of artist girl with many issues from stockholm and the father of asmund owning the little island and the cabin on it"
PEOPLE: MONTH #047
"still at the wedding of asmund in his little tiny island meeting more of his mostly swedish based friend and mostly designers and creative people like a japanese girl and the colombian son of my former crazy performer student maria and getting to know about his film making in denmark also assisting lars von trier and meeting also the husband of my other designer student willow and then in the end traveling across the picturesque swedish region of dalarna and there visiting what it used to be a sort of art park with outdoor ateliers and meeting the dutch guy who developed the idea"
PEOPLE: MONTH #048
"leaving sweden after a party in the countryside where i met the girlfriend of a guy who used to come to my school in italy and then setting off to kaliningrad in russia meeting an egyptian guy also going to russia as is swedish working visa was expiring and then right in russia meeting some art curators one with romanian roots and the other with german all being relocated by the soviets to this non-land and then conducting a workshops with teenagers from the eastern bloc, a rather nice a diplomatic estonian and a girl from moscow but particularly a very nice girl from the northern karelia who spent a year in the united states and was much diplomatic but also much charming taking actor classes"
PEOPLE: MONTH #049
"in prussia, meaning the most west russia or better the very isolated kaliningrad facilitating a workshop with students from all over russia and there meeting very interesting people like on a bus a guy from kazakhstan now working as a nurse in germany and a very intelligent moskow guy which might have actually worked as an infiltrator and new otherwise quite much about opera but then also meeting the swedish facilitators like a half estonian guy looking and reasoning much like an aristocrat and a nice girl from skone who was quite talented with crafting things but got quite wasted on cigarettes and alcohol and a polish young architect and a straightforward ukrainian girl who was also about to start her doctorate and had not so much nice views of sweden and the tasteless food there"
PEOPLE: MONTH #050
"at the sea side in kaliningrad living in a old german town by the beach and meeting up with more workshop facilitator from sweden but also a drunk russian man celebrating a wedding in the hotel and a group of activists doing interventions in an old forest that is doomed to be cut down and here also meeting a dutch artist specialized in forestry and also a professor of my old american jewish girlfriend"
PEOPLE: MONTH #051
"on my way back to sweden after kaliningrad and a time in my native mountains with absolutely no new acquaintances just old ones but then in sweden at the party meeting many new friends like the girlfriend of my colombian student ivan and another latina girl from mexico with some northern italian origins who i felt a bit attracted to and then a nice italian guy and his barcelona friend working for the internet music provider spotify to at last start my new work at the university and photographing a full of hope guy studying to be an actor but not really getting too much acquainted with my new colleagues with whom i keep a professional distance"
PEOPLE: MONTH #052
"at my new work taking portraits of a few new colleagues but really not compromising my professional situation and keep a bit of a distance to them and thus as i would not friend them on a social media profile i also don't get in to photograph them but instead being out at a gallery event in the boheme part of town and meeting up with old friends and the danish artist working really hard on her animation piece and getting really moved of my compliments but also a special dark hair swedish who has been hiking with his australian wife down to odessa and doing very spiritual work in nature and then also a young and a bit naive london painter aside for my colleagues like my office mate roman from ukraina who is quite a nice fellow and a russian girl speaking italian and quite an athlete when it comes to cross country ski but even the lesbian maria who is a empowered feminist and dresses with all very femelish stuff for sure getting a like of it but also getting a like in being totally open minded and telling me of all her masturbation time thinking of her professors and in the same lines the austrian based italian artist valerio who got a projection of a slick comedy on his naked ass and revealed himself later to me to be homosexual this along with a super boring and naive and plain swedish curator who i will meet even later without recognizing him"
PEOPLE: MONTH #053
"living in stockholm and meeting people mostly in sweden like a gypsy man who took over our uppsala apartment on whom i had to check becoming his friend and talking about religion despite him being an ex boxer and a colleague at his dissertation party with a friend working for a union and very enthusiastic about my project but also a thai girl i met a jacek's birthday working with design and a very talkative man working in a church and very fond of italy with a very shy organist training on top in a very central church in stockholm where i also met a black guy from western africa who has left italy to look for jobs here and i invited him to eat an hamburger and later tried to help find a job as a sailor but without success"
PEOPLE: MONTH #054
"again traveling to russia this time by boat and landing in saint petersburg for the first time and like a gogol character or turgenev wondering the city rather than the country and meeting a bit of characters like a guy selling hats and a too soft canadian couple to then go back to sweden and meet at last two really cool young swedes to which i sold my office chair as i have been in the phase of divorcing from my wife and needed money and really discovering how cool certain people in sweden can also be like a guy making digital art and another who has lived as a street musicians but both ending up doing standard jobs and so also meeting a more pretentious greek swedish artist but kind of experienced with some new york living in the background and some theory to distinguish him from the standard educated swedish artists like an old woman i met at a far away opening who is up to ceramic making and really had a bad breath till at last meeting the colombian cousin of ivan at a small party"
PEOPLE: MONTH #055
"still in stockholm now separating from my wife and meeting people at my colombian student's ivan's party like his colombian cousins a bit stiff and all into normal jobs and family but also some swedish girls friends of him quite calm and also into nursing old people but not the less cute one who was into psychology and photographing ivan's girlfriend who is a singer and quite in love with him despite his careless for relationships and my turkish department technician at the university who has been in charged to make a portrait of me for my job profile and a thai girl working at a thai shop where i go to buy the only tofu in town till at last photographing a swedish adopted pakistanian man who sold me his son bed which i got with a truck for lamin at the time there was a lot of snow and i was really moving out of my wife's apartment"
PEOPLE: MONTH #056
"buying my new apartment from the son of a dead hungarian man who seemed rather open minded and with a good view on politics and photographing after the signing of the contract at his father apartment taking me there with his old car and recalling his father who died of heart conditions after a life of smoking and soon after regretting having accepted a roommate which i only got because i did not wish to be alone and end up filled with vices like my father but then getting a phone call from lamin who got living here immediately after leaving his auntie who had been adopting him from the gambia and soon be most generous with him but then realizing his exploiting nature both with the state and with me to then later taking him to a party of south americans in stockholm and meeting a very weird argentinian dj who was however together with a brilliant swedish girl from the north unusually intelligent possibly also due to her long staying in south america and later going to copenhagen and being most tired at a student conference i have attended but nonetheless meeting a very brilliant danish girl doing interesting empirical work with students and going out with my old student maria and her colombian boyfriend who introduced me to a great german italian climber making money in denmark as a welder and then going in colombia to build an hostel for climbers down a peak and meeting other colombians and an malta born english guy while eating at a restaurant in the hippy neighborhood in copenhagen"
PEOPLE: MONTH #057
"head shots taken while still in copenhagen at my colombian friend's place meeting their other colombian friends like a photographer who seemed quite interesting but then went off watching a football game and an colombian born italian german girl who was rather conventional a weird looking but then going with jacek for a tour in the dolomites and there meeting two old ladies after our avalanche accident hearing the story of the first one from perugia telling us how embarrassed she was to look at naked soldiers bathing in the river during the great war and then another one in the empty hotel of a village by lake garda who actually has been working as a teacher in germany and has lost her fiance also in a mountain accident making her rather sorrowful hearing that we also risked our lives and there at the cafe of the hotel meeting a polish guy working as the tender and complaining about the italian situation despite him being very well off in such a paradise and then meeting an italian guy on the plane to sweden who like me had found a swedish girlfriend and was ready to settle up north and finally in the sudetic mountains in southern poland meeting one of jacek's friend named also jacek who was also a musicians and artist but with many introvert issues"
PEOPLE: MONTH #058
"in krakow with jacek and with his friends to the mountains for new years eve getting to know them all quite much in the music scene playing in bands like maci and lukas who got really to like my project and lukas' girl olla who speaks fluent swedish but then also meeting many of jacek's cousins like anya with whom i taught italian lessons at her school finding her really quite enthusiast and her athlete boyfriend with whom i might launch a commercial Website and his warsaw cousin who was into a tv channel of some sort but more introvert then also getting to know an uruguayan girl escaping from sweden and keeping it in the more affordable poland and at last martina the experimental musician really cool indeed collecting sounds in the city till late at night."
PEOPLE: MONTH #059
"still in krakow meeting up with jacek's friend while he was already gone and going out mostly in the evening in bars talking to them about the hobbies they have to leave aside such as music but also meeting a very nice short girl who was also a musician and sang from her room while i was trying to organize an exhibition which brought me to talk to a curator of a new institute and then on my way back to sweden at night meeting an indian student very afraid of me since i walked to the road to the city center and later meeting a swedish italian nice guy studying old history after which i met a finn swedish at an opening with quite a lot of vitality and with whom we tried to do some exhibition again but never managed and at last meeting a cool colleague of jacek from manchester with a lot of nice stories and quite nice political opinions revealing me many insights of old england"
PEOPLE: MONTH #060
"new acquaintances met now still living my life as a bachelor and going with my colombian student ivan to a performance festival where i met a crazy body artist from the north doing dangerous stuff with broken glass as well as a turkish student who was a bit obsessive but also meeting two great theater actors from montenegro that has facilitated a very nice workshop on improvisation and a german girl studying to be a curator with whom i tried to collaborate but never managed and finally people from an art fair for nonprofit galleries like a polish guy and a very nice austrian woman curating artists from morocco and quite a shy gallery assistant from south africa"
PEOPLE: MONTH #061
"portraits taken during a small art fair in stockholm with all non-profit gallery organizers with whom i have socialized while walking with a mask during a performance and meeting a kind of cool jewish musician with his own pavilion as well as some chinese tourist girls with whom i tried to talk chinese and then meeting a really perverted woman from chicago who was really keen to invite me out and finally a strange couple operating in the island of gotland who wanted me to try to drink some polluted water for an art project"
PEOPLE: MONTH #062
"a first new acquaintance met in stockholm and actually a quite famous researcher from the netherlands who studied in south africa and later moved to indianapolis to whom i have presented my project and later went out for dinner and at last a lot of cool young people met at an art conference in berlin like a guy from eastern europe but also two italian artists like a crazy one from venice who was really exposed for his age and a girl from south tyrol to then also meet another eastern european girl photographed in front of an orange light and a southafrican scholar with whom we went out to galleries and finally a cool artist from the philippines photographed out of the hostel where i was staying and a too serious girl from georgia studying in london to become a curator"
PEOPLE: MONTH #063
"nice people met mostly at a conference in berlin and mostly curator art students from london like a nice italian girl together with her danish and indian colleague and another italian girl with whom we had an argument during a discussion as well as some nice guys like one from prague who used to go around with a big paper archive and a german student studying theater but also a quite famous chinese artist making calligraphy on bodies and a swedish philosopher studying with me with whom i hanged out during these days"
PEOPLE: MONTH #064
"a period spent in berlin meeting a lot of artist people such as some students from zurich but also a curator from taiwan and a few russian and african actors who i saw at a play as well as a weird girl from the philippines and a solar girl from spain who kept rather poor in berlin and then back in sweden a russian scholar"
PEOPLE: MONTH #065
"an italian guy met on my first visit to the netherlands going by train to visit myrthe and then a crazy and pervert finnish guy met on a walk with august to sodertalje center before also meeting a few arabs again traveling back and forth to myrthe this time by train and at last people met while in boston for a conference such as an italian researchers who made his money doing internet administration and a pakistani writer introduced to me by my former neighbour blake as well as an estonian art critique and a waiter from the conference reception"
PEOPLE: MONTH #066
"faces captured while in boston mingling with academics from a conference like a too agreeable canadian professor but also a waiter there with greek and swedish parents and weird lady telling me to bike to her place along the coast and find a cave where to meditate but also another artist erasing all the faces of her dead father in the pictures she finds of him and a brazilian girl met downtown handing fliers to then go to new york and meet a very interesting pipe player in central park where i followed his sound in the wood there and an austrian political artist doing an internship with my friend jason to at last meet a nice man from vermont on my way back to europe"
PEOPLE: MONTH #067
"people met at the university like an italian scholar from emilia romagna and his feelo phd student from germany but also a russian visitor and many other visitors coming to stockholm for a conference particularly studying in london and photographing them after taking them on a long excursion around stockholm ending up in the rose garden"
PEOPLE: MONTH #068
"people met to begin with at the small conference organized by university for london students and also a dutch student met at the reception who worked shortly as a babysitter for august and then an argentinian couple met while introducing for the first time myrthe to my small sister giulia in madrid and also other people met there like an old man whose name i guessed while walking in a nice square"
PEOPLE: MONTH #069
"folk met in the summer first at a department conference asking a russian colleague to be photographed and then meeting myrthe's half english lesbian colleague while in the netherlands before going to the university of warwick inengland and there photographing my former second supervisor after a walk together in a nice medieval village as well as a cool american ethnographer and a crazy game developer and a young couple along also with a quite straightforward danishstudent"
PEOPLE: MONTH #070
"a nice chinese tourist met on a train on my way back by train to stockholm and a yugoslavian guy met in karlstad while walking along the river who showed me the photos of his hometown and then a spanish doctorate student who has been always curious about my project as well as a southern italian girl met on my way to the airport at night and a guy from trieste met on the plane for the second time with his girlfriend living in sweden and a famous hockey player now coach of the sodertalje swedish team and then two italians met while going out in the evening with my old time friend francesco one of them without a hand"
PEOPLE: MONTH #071
"an young british italian met after a fantastic walk in the english countryside waiting for the bus to take me back to warwick and an angry british scholar met there who anyway liked my work and wanted to hear more about it before traveling to italy and staying with my parents in my natiove highland and photographing his friends and and their daughter working as a financial advisor in africa but also a venetian rich lady and her lover who i later came to despise really much and lastly an old man helping in a mountain shelter of a friend who was persuaded by my stepfather to cook for us even though his wife died"
PEOPLE: MONTH #072
"people met in sweden in the first place at the university a nice guy from england but with his parents from rome and then a girl also living in sweden but from genoa who i met in the metro and a polish graphic designer whom i hosted to help me with a website but never getting anything concrete from him and at last myrthe's friends met in the netherlands like hanneke and her boyfriend cohen photographed in amsterdam but also her crazy friend from rotterdam and an old landscape architect who had her studio below us and spoke italian"