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500 - 5 mph
Photo © Kicki Lundgren
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My work “500 – 5 mph” is about a woman, Sara, who had a motorcycle accident 22 years ago.
At the time of the accident she was working as a pilot in the USA, she was also newly married and had lots going on in her life.
Now, 22 years later, in her second life, as she herself says, she is living with an acquired brain injury. As a result of the injury she is often tired, has memory problems and functional decline on the left side of her body. She has assistants to help her all of her waking life and works at a day activity centre.
But in the midst of all this, there is also Sara’s creativity, the desire to have fun, to be seen and to meet new people.
" 500 - 5 mph" is about living in exclusion and, despite this, having the courage to take up space.
The " 500 - 5 mph” project will be published as a book by Journal publisher in March 2018.
(the title refers to the difference in speed between an aircraft and a bicycle)
I am educated at the Nordic Photoschool in Stockholm 1992.
My inspiration comes from nature and from all those people who, with all their faults and imperfections, have the courage to fully be human, which my current project “500 – 5 mph” revolves around.
I use the different elements of nature as a place for people to rest, directly on the ground or floating in the sea. I look for the feeling of nature and human blending together as one.
In the project “Where time has stood still – pictures from Kurdistan”, I photographed people in a small village in the Turkish part of Kurdistan. My most important experience there came one day when I was walking in the mountains with some women from the village. After a while we all grew tired and laid down on the ground. There I laid, on my stomach, with the spring sun on my neck and my nose full of oregano and thyme. This was what it was all about, the feel of soil, of returning to nature.
The elements of nature reappear in my work “Floating”, which shows people bathing. When I was young I trained swimming. For me, the water was a place to hide myself. All my teenage complexes drifted away and I swam myself free. I am fascinated by the courage to be seen and take up space and not, like me, dive under and hide in the pool.
In “Floating”, I photographed people who openly show themselves and their bodies, shrouded by the sea, as if they were liberated from the age and beauty complexes that permeate our society.
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My work “500 – 5 mph” is about a woman, Sara, who had a motorcycle accident 22 years ago.
At the time of the accident she was working as a pilot in the USA, she was also newly married and had lots going on in her life.
Now, 22 years later, in her second life, as she herself says, she is living with an acquired brain injury. As a result of the injury she is often tired, has memory problems and functional decline on the left side of her body. She has assistants to help her all of her waking life and works at a day activity centre.
But in the midst of all this, there is also Sara’s creativity, the desire to have fun, to be seen and to meet new people.
" 500 - 5 mph" is about living in exclusion and, despite this, having the courage to take up space.
The " 500 - 5 mph” project will be published as a book by Journal publisher in March 2018.
(the title refers to the difference in speed between an aircraft and a bicycle)
About author:
My name is Kicki Lundgren, I live and work in Sweden mostly with longer individual projects.I am educated at the Nordic Photoschool in Stockholm 1992.
My inspiration comes from nature and from all those people who, with all their faults and imperfections, have the courage to fully be human, which my current project “500 – 5 mph” revolves around.
I use the different elements of nature as a place for people to rest, directly on the ground or floating in the sea. I look for the feeling of nature and human blending together as one.
In the project “Where time has stood still – pictures from Kurdistan”, I photographed people in a small village in the Turkish part of Kurdistan. My most important experience there came one day when I was walking in the mountains with some women from the village. After a while we all grew tired and laid down on the ground. There I laid, on my stomach, with the spring sun on my neck and my nose full of oregano and thyme. This was what it was all about, the feel of soil, of returning to nature.
The elements of nature reappear in my work “Floating”, which shows people bathing. When I was young I trained swimming. For me, the water was a place to hide myself. All my teenage complexes drifted away and I swam myself free. I am fascinated by the courage to be seen and take up space and not, like me, dive under and hide in the pool.
In “Floating”, I photographed people who openly show themselves and their bodies, shrouded by the sea, as if they were liberated from the age and beauty complexes that permeate our society.
BACK TO GALLERY
