Stefan Bladh
Film director Photographer
Stefan Bladh is a photographer, filmmaker, and artist based in Stockholm Sweden.
Working within a documentary tradition, Stefan explore questions around identity, memory, and place. His images often focus on quiet, in-between moments—images that point to something beyond the frame.
Bladh doesn’t follow a strict plan when photographing. His approach is open-ended, shaped by what he encounters. Rather than aiming to document specific events or narratives, he looks for moments that carry emotional weight or raise questions.
Over the past twenty years, Bladh has worked on editorial assignments for international publications while developing long-term personal projects. He has traveled extensively in the Balkans, the Middle East, Ukraine, and Russia—drawn to places marked by transition or uncertainty. These journeys have formed the foundation for several bodies of work, where the boundaries between the personal and political, the internal and external, often overlap or intersect.
In 2010 he released his first monograph - The Family. A documentary project and book about a nomadic family in Turkey he followed for nearly nine years. A project that got much attention worldwide and was published in magazines such as TIMES.
2017 he published the book Hidden Kingdom. The project was nominated to Oscar Barnack Award as well as the Swedish Photobook of the year 2018.
2019 his film ”Without desire, no image - a portrait of photographer Anders Petersen” had its premiere at Swedish Television, K-Special.
(Source: stefanbladh.com)