Samtal
Photobook Breakfast with Åsa Sjöström
In connection with the Swedish Photobook Prize 2023 exhibition at Landskrona City Library, you are welcome to a photobook breakfast on Saturday, September 9. Photographer Åsa Sjöström will lead the conversation and present some of the books she has selected from the exhibition. If you are interested in participating, please bring books that you would like to discuss as well.
Åsa Sjöström is a freelance photographer who works with both documentary and commercial photography, as well as film.
Åsa has worked as a professional photographer since 2003. She trained at the Nordic School of Photography, photojournalism, Biskops Arnö, and worked as a photographer at DN and Sydsvenskan between 2004-2013. Since the autumn of 2013, she has been a freelance photographer. Åsa Sjöström’s own projects often highlight the situation and rights of women and children around the world. Her work has been recognised both in Sweden and internationally, and she has received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s working grant to continue working on her projects.
In addition to freelancing as a photographer/filmmaker, Åsa does exhibitions, gives lectures, workshops, teaches, participates in panel discussions, and serves as a jury member. She has published a photobook and handbooks, and participated in anthologies with other photographers. Her first documentary film, The Last Circus Princess, was broadcast on SVT Dox in 2020.
Read more here about Åsa Sjöstrom and the Swedish Photobook Prize
Register in advance at: biblioteketvuxen.program@landskrona.se
The photobook breakfast is organised by Landskrona Library and Fotoförfattarna/Swedish Photographers’ Association (SFF), Centrum För Fotografi (CFF), Landskrona Foto. Supported by Region Skåne.
