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.