Lovisa Wanker
My artistic practice emerged from a life-altering health event—a postpartum embolism—in 2008. This experience reshaped how I perceive time, presence, and fragility, and continues to inform my work. My photographs explore human connection, movement, and the quiet relationship between people and their surroundings. I am particularly drawn to photographing my children, following their transition from childhood into adolescence, where identity, vulnerability, and change exist in constant motion. Through light, gesture, and environment, I seek to reveal the unseen emotional layers within everyday life. Often described as cinematic and atmospheric, my work sometimes carries a quality that I hope places ordinary moments into a poetic, slightly surreal space. For me, beauty—found in a pink sky, a forest or in the wind in someones hair is essential. These fleeting, freely given moments are not only a source of inspiration, but a way of surviving.
Sweden
Sweden
After my postpartum embolism photographing my children with my phone became both a release and the only thing my brain…
Wallflowers are wonderful — you just have to find them first. These roses behind an electrical cabinet, a few trash…
At dusk, M in a raincoat stands by an almost vanishing shoreline. The coast is indistinct, resisting definition, as sea…
I met a man among the flowers in the park, and together we marveled at how impossibly beautiful it all was — it felt…
Shinrin-yoku, the quiet art of returning to presence. This practice invites us to move slowly—or to be still—within the…
Red Forest is a photographic series created using infrared technology, where foliage turns radiant red and the natural…
This photograph belongs to a long-term series created at sites I revisit year after year. Here is my sister, whom I…
In the pale light of late winter, my daugher stands balanced on a chair in our kitchen. A small movement, time briefly…
Together” (2020) is part of Screen Light, a series that juxtaposes 19th-century garden interiors with contemporary…
