Hunting towers

My photographic series Hunting Towers (2007-2014), photographed on medium format slide film, was commenced in 2007 and soon became a central element in my research. The series focuses on physical structures referred to as hunting towers, raised and utilised by hunters and hunting teams active in the area in which the towers are positioned.

The hunting towers I photographed are all located in the Swedish county of Västra Götaland, where I grew up. The towers featured throughout my childhood, yet these important places of play and imagination are entirely absent from family photographs from my childhood. This is key to my motivation for multiple projects of mine. To my friends and me, the hunting towers in our local area became spaceships to take us travelling, castle turrets, fortresses and trees to occupy, and monsters to fight. At some point, we remembered their original purpose. Then, hunting towers became symbols of death and killing.

My photographs depict a range of different hunting towers, and have been shown in a range of different contexts and formats. The photographs have been shown in group exhibitions, and in an installation called Journeys Back (2009).