Carnegie Library As part of a larger story about library closures around Europe we visited Carnegie Library in Lambeth where campaigners for the Defend the 10 group had been occupying Carnegie Library since the 31st of March on the day it was closed by Lambeth Council for re-development. The 10 day occupation ended on Saturday...
Grassroots Out (GO) Campaign A visit for Helsingin Sanomat with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to a Grassroots Out (GO) campaign meeting held in Purfleet, Essex. Grassroots Out, or GO for short, is made up of politicians and supporters from across the political spectrum and is in favour of EU withdrawal in the forthcoming EU...
Kate Atkinson It was one of those landings you unfortunately experience now and again when the plane swings erratically from side to side on the approach due to strong side winds and then lands with a heavy thud and you are more than a tad thankful you have not just died – the situation becoming...
Kenny Bräck Racing Driver It was really nice to have received the assignment from TT Nyhetsbyrån to photograph the portraits of Swedish Racing Driver Kenny Bräck to illustrate an article that he was celebrating his 50th birthday today. It was some fifteen years ago I last met Kenny. Kenny Bräck is Sweden’s most successful racing...
Eurosceptic map of London New YouGov research using the profiles data of over 80,000 British people on the YouGov panel reveals the most and least Eurosceptic areas of Britain. In the London boroughs the borough of Havering is the most eurosceptic (also in Britain) in contrast Lambeth is the top borough for Europhiles. We visited...
European or British? Just before Christmas we went to the aptly named tavern The Union to gauge what Brits feel about the EU and if they identify themselves as European or British. According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, as many as 64% of people in the UK deny that they feel in any way ‘European’. In...
Leicester City FC An assignment for Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter to visit Leicester City Football Club for a reportage about the city, the club and the fans. In the city centre we saw the statue commemorating the success in one season (1996-97) of Leicester’s three sporting teams: Leicester City FC, the football club, the Tigers...
Daniel Hannan On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat I went to Brighton with London correspondent Annamari Sipilä to meet up with Daniel Hannan, member of the European Parliament, representing South East England for the Conservative Party. We met up Daniel outside Brighton train station where he together with other colleagues were handing out leaflets on behalf...
David Bowie 1947-2016 Being born in the fifties I grew up with Bowie and for me he was quite simply the best, so many memories from the Space Oddity, Hunky Dory & Ziggy Stardust era. On the morning of the 11th when his death became known David Bowie fans started to create makeshift shrines around...
London Editorial Photographer Some latest assignments taken for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The first image shows a visit to Hatton Garden, London to illustrate a story about the market price for diamonds is in a long, slow decline. The second image is from an article comparing the drinking culture in Finland and the UK....
Jonathan Franzen To photograph actors, authors & artists is interesting, often rewarding and always challanging. The challange lies not with the person in question but with the time allowed and the location of the shoot. More often than not the artist has a string of interviews during the day and a 20 mintute time slot...
Editorial Photography Assignments The nicest aspects of being commissioned for editorial photography assignments is the diversity of the work and the challenge each assignment brings – I am showing a couple of recent assignments for Finland’s largest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat, who also have an English online version Helsinki Times. Hinkley Point The government had announced...
Three Choirs Vineyard I knew that over the last few years English wines have been winning many prestigious awards, and I have also tasted many excellent English wines but I had never visited an English vineyard so it was with great pleasure I received an assignment from Swedish Dagens Nyheter to do just that. With...
Tomas Lindahl Nobel Prize Winner Chemistry 2015 The annual Nobel Prize Awards are being announced in Stockholm and on Tuesday The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2015 to Swede Tomas Lindahl from the Francis Crick Institute and Clare Hall Laboratory, Hertfordshire. The award is shared with Paul...
Cheddar Cheese made in Cheddar Somerset Cheddar is the most popular type of cheese in the UK, surprisingly not many people know that Cheddar Cheese derives its name from the village of Cheddar in Somerset … I do, it is where I grew up. It was nice to return to Cheddar on assignment for the Finnish...
Rugby School In the lead up to the Rugby World Cup 2015 and on assignment for Dagens Nyheter we visited Rugby School in Warwickshire known as the birthplace of Rugby after the celebrated incident when William Webb Ellis first decided to pick up a football and run. A huge number of Rugby fans will be...
Dismaland Bemusement Park Dismaland Bemusement Park opened on the 21st August and is scheduled to run until 27th September 2015. On the first day of the tickets going online I was one of the estimated 6 million people that tried to purchase tickets – the website crashed, to be honest I thought the possibility of...
Jeremy Corbyn On assignment for Helsingin Sanomat we travelled down to Southampton to meet Corbyn who is on his Labour Party leadership campaign trail. The Labour favourite hosted a rally and filled the 750 capacity hall at the Ageas Bowl. Jeremy Corbyn may have entered the Labour leadership race as an outsider at 100/1, but...
Operation Stack Reportage about Operation Stack a procedure used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to ‘stack’ up to 5,700 lorries on the M20 motorway. We met with lorry drivers on the M20 Junction 11 Services and locals in the village of Charing, Kent where the roads have been gridlock due...
Wimbledon 2015 An assignment for Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter about Jonas Björkman former World No. 4 and triple Wimbledon doubles champion. Jonas is now coach for Andy Murray. French coach Amélie Mauresmo started coaching Andy about a year ago and Jonas joined the team in April and will take over as head coach when Amélie will...
Hay Festival 2015 I am just back from Hay-on-Wye in Wales having photographed the build up to the The Hay Festival – Imagine The World that runs from the 21st-31st May. The festival kicks off in earnest today Saturday, some 80,000 visitors are expected to visit the festival. The first 2 days were mainly for school...
Editorial Photographer in London One of the most rewarding things about working as an Editorial Photographer is the diversity of the assignments. Last week was no exception with assignments in 3 counties all about the run up to the General Election. Bedford, Bedfordshire. The above image taken for Helsingin Sanomat illustrated the interview of local...
General Election 2015 I recently completed a 5 day reportage trip around Britain for Sweden’s largest daily morning newspaper Dagens Nyheter together with their London correspondent Pia Gripenberg. Brighton – The Green Party We went to the Hanover the Green heartland area in Brighton affectionately known as ‘Muesli Mountain’ and spoke with local residents about...
Björn Wahlroos Portraits of Björn Wahlroos taken on assignment for Helsingin Sanomat. It was a suntanned, debonair Björn Wahlroos that greeted us in his suite at the Connaught Hotel in Mayfair. The interview by London correspondent Annamari Sipilä was in part about the release of Björn’s new book “Talouden kymmenen tuhoisinta ajatusta” roughly translated as...
International Students Tuition Fees On assignment for Dagens nyheter we travelled to Sheffield to meet Keith Burnett Vice-Chancellor of the University of Sheffield and current students who talked about their views on their own international students tuition fees. It is still very attractive to study in the UK but in 2014 came a report that...
Video clip at Dagens Nyheter. Black Cab Knowledge Ever fancied becoming a London Cabbie? then be prepared for a very hard & long education …just as long as any University Degree. To drive a Black Cab in London you must pass The Knowledge exam. It takes on average...
Brighton and Hove Green Party National support for the Green Party has surged in recent weeks, with a number of polls placing them on 10% or more of the vote. Media attention is on the Greens stronghold Brighton and Hove which has both Britain’s only Green MP Caroline Lucas and since 2011 a local Green...
Monitoring Poverty and Social Exclusion A recent assignment for Helsingin Sanomat with 2 interviews in the Berkshire county area based on a recent report monitoring poverty and social exclusion 2014. This annual report, written by the New Policy Institute (NPI), tells the definitive story of how the UK’s economic recovery is affecting people in poverty,...
Niklas Zennstrom It was interesting to have met and photographed Niklas Zennström for business magazine Affärsvärlden. The interview & photo shoot was held in the boardroom of the investment company Atomico on New Bond Street where Niklas runs both Atomico and the charity organisation Zennström Philanthropies. From being recognised by Time Magazine as one of...
Mobile Home Services There are many companies in the UK that supply mobile services and come to your home which is extremely convenient and most have very reasonable prices – in part due to the fact that they do not have the large overhead costs conventional businesses have such as a business premise lease & rates....
Justice for Domestic Workers J4DW On assignment for Swedish trade union newspaper Kommunalarbetaren together with reporter Pernilla Josefsson we did a reportage about Justice for Domestic Workers (J4DW) a self-help group for Migrant Domestic Workers campaigning for their rights and welfare in the UK, they represent around 500 members. J4DW are a self-organised branch of...
Calais Migrants A few days ago I was in Calais for the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat to do a story with their London correspondent Annamari Sipilä about the situation of the Calais Migrants. An estimated 2,300 people live in squalid camps near the French port. A quote by the port’s mayor Natacha Bouchart “Calais migrants...
Jamie Oliver “Never meet your heroes” I always remember being told that by a sport journalist I worked closely with a few years ago “you will only be disappointed”. I was not disappointed when I met Jamie Oliver, he was exactly the sort of person I thought he was, professional, considerate, genuine and all round nice...
London Walks Jack The Ripper On this our 2nd walk we met our guide Molly outside the Tower Hill Underground Station and together with some 25 others we walked off into East London, the heart of the Ripper’s killing ground. This was a very interesting tour. When we reached the murder crime scenes Molly showed...
London Walks Sherlock Holmes I recently did 2 London walks for Dagens Nyheter’s Travel supplement. The first was the ‘In the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes’. We met up with our guide Corinna outside the Embankment Underground Station and finished 2 hours later at the The Sherlock Holmes Pub on Northumberland Street. This was an interesting...
Douglas Carswell UKIP 2 days before the Clacton-on-Sea by-election we visited the seaside town to do a story about Douglas Carswell who remains the odds-on favourite to win today’s poll triggered by his defection from the Conservative Party to UKIP. We arrived at UKIP’s Clacton headquarters just as Douglas Carswell also arrived shaking hands with...
The Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 And so it was the day of the Referendum. Together with Pia (Dagens Nyheter’s London Correspondent) we decided rather than to photograph people voting in one of the cities we would follow someone in a quintessential Scottish village. The choice fell to the beautiful village of Braemar in the heart...
The Scottish Independence Referendum With just 2 days to go until a referendum on separation both the YES & NO campaigners are out door-knocking across Scotland. We followed both campaigns in Edinburgh, armed with lists of previously contacted undecided voters they were trying to get votes in a final push. On the eve of the...
Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 “Should Scotland be an independent country?” is the referendum question that the Scottish people will ask themselves and answer with a simple Yes or No on Thursday 18 September 2014. This was my second trip to Scotland for Dagens Nyheter, together with London correspondent Pia Gripenberg we visited Edinburgh, Glasgow &...
Virginia Nicholson On assignment for Aftonbladet I drove down to East Sussex with reporter Staffan Heimerson to meet Virginia Nicholson. Staffan was writing a piece about the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War and the effects it had on the position of women in British society. Virginia was an excellent source...
