Anders Petersen

Anders Petersen, who was born in 1944 in Solna shares with another great Swedish photographer, Christer Strömholm, whom he admired and was a student of, a similar approach to the world and an identical aesthetic form that of black and white photography which has the sharpness and intensity of a snapshot but also a regard and concern for other people, which are fundamental in the case of a portrait, which is another major theme which the two photo- graphers share.

This work which contains more than 300 photographs from the artist, from Café Lehmitz to the recent series Roma (2012) and Reggio Emilia (2012), typifies the universal effect that the work of Anders Petersen brings about, as well as the invention of a changing document which is profoundly intuitive and sensual.

The whole of it highlights the common theme running through the different periods of the work of Petersen and makes it possible to appreciate the permanence and intensification of a style which from the beginning was the reaction to a personal search based on human contact and the freedom of the gaze.