Amsterdam – GFN Street Photography

Same, same, but different

27 October, 202523 November, 2025Posted in Editorial, Everyday chores, Street Photography, Time is changeTagged Amsterdam, Gatufoto, Monochrome, Street photo, Street portraitLeave a comment

These are more than 10 years old pictures from Amsterdam. Sometimes it’s nice to go back in time to see old stuff you made. And perhaps redo them?

In April of 2015 some 45 swedes went to Amsterdam to make street photography photos. I was at that time fairly new at this (since less than 3 years back), even if I’ve been taking photos with an SLR camera since I was a teenager.

The things is – you learn as you go along. And I’ve learned a lot. About my cameras, about composition, about editing and much more. So when I found a new way to do my postproduction this year, it’s only natural that I want to test it on older pics. So, some of these I’ve showed before, some not at all. But they’re all edited in a (for me) newer way. And they are all in black and white, even if I make a lot of colour photos these days.

A small exhibit.

15 May, 2017Posted in Editorial, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Berlin, exhibition, Gothenburg, LondonLeave a comment

This Friday, a local restaurant in Borås is exhibiting some of my street images. At Tonys Restaurang you can see a small collection of pictures from London, Berlin, Amsterdam and Gothenburg.

On a separate page in this blog, you can read more on each of the twelve pictures I’ll hang. Click here.

Content faces.

20 March, 201719 March, 2017Posted in Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Content, Gothenburg, Kids, Stockholm2 Comments

Loving people I often ask for a portrait and talk with the people I’ve just made a image of. Quite often the common denominator for these random meeting is content.

Way ahead

Content in Haga, Street photography Gotenburg

Content in Haga, Gothenburg

Street photography, Street photography Stockholm

Beautiful blue

Pub portrait genever

Out of focus.

10 February, 201710 February, 2017Posted in Editorial, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Berlin, Chicago, focus, Football, GothenburgLeave a comment

On the street, it doesn’t have to be perfect. The emotions count, no matter how technically good you are. So, sometimes I like it to be not only rough and somewhat “unfinished”, but also out of focus. It works as it is.

Do you agree?

On the move

Nighttime haste

Getting out

Passing image

Levitation

Stopping for a pic

Pigeon playground.

9 December, 20169 December, 2016Posted in Street Photography, Time is changeTagged Amsterdam, KidsLeave a comment

Today’s pictures I took at de Dam in Amsterdam a little more than 1,5 year ago. First I only copied them in black and white, but as I’ve started to work lots more in color, I decided to redo them. Which one do you like the most?

Time is change.

22 September, 201617 September, 2016Posted in Editorial, Street Photography, Time is changeTagged Amsterdam, Gatufoto, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Stockholm, Street photo, Street photography, Street portrait, TICLeave a comment

My Project Time is change (#TIC)is slowly picking up speed. Now there’s a page in my portfolio/project section on this site, where you can check it out. #TIC is at the moment (sic) what broods my mind the most, so I’ll soon update with more pics.

The page is here: Clicketiclick…

Walking the Plank.

17 August, 201617 August, 2016Posted in Street photographers, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Berlin, Gatufoto, Gothenburg, Lisbon, Street photo, Street photographyLeave a comment

This Saturday, me and a lot other photographers participate in a makeshift exhibition at Planket in Gothenburg. Everyone get a metre (1,1 yard) and what you do with it is up to you.

I’ll go hardcore. I’ll laminate my 10-12 pics and nail them to wooden boards, just for fun (and for the possibility of rain).

“Balcony talk”

Wanna see some more?
Planket, right by Bältesspännarparken and Trädgårdsföreningen in Gothenburg – Saturday August 20th, 12.00-18.00

Fingers I met.

11 June, 201612 September, 2016Posted in Editorial, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Berlin, Gatufoto, Kids, Lisbon, Street photo, Street photography, Street portrait2 Comments

Well. To be frank, some of the fingers weren’t that bad. Some I deserved, all I strangely like. I kind of naïvely smile in the depth of my people-loving mind…

This one’s for you

The Finger, sad

The Finger

Yeah, what

That non perfect feel.

26 January, 20164 March, 2016Posted in Editorial, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Street photo, Street photographyLeave a comment

Sometimes a shot is technically not even close to perfect, but still it stirs in your mind – as a forgotten memory of sorts. Out of focus, unsharp and still mindful. As the late night in Amsterdam…

GF-9apr15_NighttimeHaste-FB — Night time haste

Cathing moments.

24 January, 20164 March, 2016Posted in Editorial, Street photographers, Street PhotographyTagged Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Gatufoto, London, Street photo, Street photographers, Street photography, Street portraitLeave a comment

The third of my friends in my street photography community (Gothenburg area) that I’ll like to introduce is Mats Johansson. As many of us, he’s got another job full time and take pics wherever he go (as he travels a lot). No matter whether you call Mats an amateur or not, he’s got that great eye for interesting pics.

*Öppen bar (Open bar)*. Amsterdam April 2015

I saw one of Mats exhibitions last spring, where he declared that anything urban interests him, sometimes it’s street art, sometimes street photography – quite often a combination of the two. In his own words:

– To look for and catch moments, views and interesting meetings in a urban environment is magic, especially with lots of people and movements in them. It’s the mix of documentary and art that fascinates me.