Cherry Blossoms

Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

No. This is 14 April. Can you beleive that just two weeks later this place is swarming with photographers capturing when pink cherry blossoms. No. But it is true. Have a look.

Walking blues

photo © Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

"I woke up this mornin
feelin round for my shoes
Know bout at I got these
old walkin blues"

Robert Johnson

The rising sun

Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

Is it the house of the rising sun, or just a mirage? Franka was made in Bayreuth, Germany. But I don't associate her with Wagner...she is more like Sibelius or Shostakovich or Bob Dylan...

"Now when all of the bandits that you turned your other cheek to
All lay down their bandanas and complain
And you want somebody you don't have to speak to
Won't you come see me, Queen Jane ?"

Facing south

Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

Franka has left and the lions offer no comfort this freezing April day in Stockholm. Will she ever return? I wonder what it's like in Frankfurt?

Breaking news

Franka is in Germany. Developing story...

Surreal Days

Photo© Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

I went all the way to Stockholm, just to see what they were doing there...Franka is gone but her pictures remain.

Bass player

Photo © Ulf Fågelhammar/Franka

Stockholm is cold but I like where I'm living...there's music on...Franka is dreaming about far away places and tells me that she is ready to travel.

The Library

Picture taken with Franka in Stockholm, March 2012. The camera will change hands many times in the months ahead. Slow photography, snail mail and patience. But there is a thrill to this journey - I will not reveal the next destination. The camera is packed and about to be delivered to a photographer somewhere in the world. Check out this blog at least once a week and you will eventually find out where, when and who. And what.

In the meantime I will post some more photos, taken by Franka in Stockholm.

Slow photography, snail mail and patience

You are invited to join Franka on her journey around the world. Franka is a camera from 1958 or 1965 (?), simple and cheap. It is loaded with 120 film. 

The journey will start this week and it will go on for perhaps as much as two years. I have not equipped Franka with a GPS or something similar - this is slow photography, snail mail and above all patience.

Does it sound like fun? OK, let us start with a quiz. Where is Franka in the picture above?