Susanne Walström, photographer and artist. She has long been among Sweden’s leading photographers. After graduating from Högskolan för Fotografi in Gothenburg (HDK)she commenced her career as a freelance photographer. Her breakthrough came in the 1990s working for the leading Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, with unforgettable images from Chernobyl and elsewhere. But she soon returned to working as a freelance photographer, film maker and artist with commissions for reportage that cross the border between documentary and a freer artistic expression.
Susanne Walström’s CV includes a succession of striking books, films and exhibitions. In recent times she has created a forceful series entitles The Shimmmer and Shade of Gold depicting gold-mining and the people who work with this harrowing task. The suite forms part of a larger, anthroposophical and artistic study dealing with historical, cultural, political and the mythical and mystical symbolic elements.
Some ten or so years ago Susanne Walström travelled to Iceland for a week of horse-riding. Together with ten companions she rode across the Icelandic countryside to places that remain unchanged since the days of the Icelandic sagas, and far distant from the tourist highways. During the tour the group had access to no fewer than 40 Icelandic horses that wandered around following the group. For her exhibition at Galleri Glas in 2023 Susanne Walström has returned to Iceland and to her beloved horses.