I live in northern Sweden and work as a photographer and author at the edge of forests, rivers, lakes, and changing seasons.
I work between two rooms.
A darkroom for film and silver prints.
And a white room for digital work.
The tools change.
The pace stays slow.
Landscape is not just scenery to me.
It becomes story.
markus@markussenn.com
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I started photography at the age of fourteen and have been fascinated by the medium ever since. In 1977, while still in high school, one of my images was published in a local newspaper. This marked the beginning of a journey that has now lasted almost half a century.
For more than twenty-five years, I worked as a photojournalist,
followed by another long phase of professional digital photography
for a wide range of clients.
Photography has never been just a profession to me – it has always
been a way of seeing and understanding the world.
When digital photography became unavoidable in the early 2000s,
I adapted to the new tools. In 2007, after roughly twenty-five years of continuous work, I temporarily shut down my professional
black-and-white darkroom.
Yet classic photography with large-format cameras and film never disappeared from my life. For the past two decades, it remained a quiet companion – less professional, more personal.
In 2022, during a sailing trip with our 32-foot sailboat Inismara, my wife and I became deeply fascinated by the northern landscape, especially the Höga Kusten area, and decided to buy a house in northern Sweden. In 2024, we moved permanently to Nyland in Västernorrland.
Living here, surrounded by forests, rivers, and changing seasons, has slowly reshaped my photographic focus.
I am now in what I like to call the “last third” of my photographic journey. After decades of commissioned work, I am turning my attention back to slow, artisanal photography – mainly landscape – combining traditional techniques with digital processes. Writing is once again becoming an integral part of my work.
I recently rebuilt a classic darkroom for my black-and-white work, alongside a “white room” for digital editing and print preparation.
Between these two rooms, separated by a light-tight sliding door,
my work moves between past and present.
When I am not working with images or texts, I am often sailing, maintaining old boats, woodworking, or renovating our timber house.
I am looking forward to the next twenty-five years.