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Veins: a Scandinavian photobook full of blood, nudity and human strangeness. "Anders Petersen showed me that photography is a way of life in itself," Jacob Aue Sobol once told me.

Veins: a Scandinavian photobook full of blood, nudity and human strangeness

"Just the way he immerses himself in the subject. You look at his pictures and you feel that he had to make them. For him, photography is an obsession as well as an art form. " Now the two Scandinavian photographers have created a book together. It is called Veins and is a work of two distinct halves: a selection of Petersen's work culled from his extensive archive, followed by newer work by Sobol. Though Petersen is from Sweden and Sobol from Denmark, they share a definable Nordic sensibility – what Petersen once called a "poetical sadness". Over 30 years later, in 1998, a young Sobol enrolled at the Danish School of Photography, where Stromholm was the guiding spirit and Petersen the most well-known teacher.

Like Stromholm before him, Petersen has become a guiding spirit for a younger generation of Scandinavian photographers. Julian Germain's best photograph: Charlie in his kitchen stirring the gravy. One weekend in 1992 I was on my way to take photographs at a football match in Portsmouth, when a brightly painted yellow and orange house caught my eye.

Julian Germain's best photograph: Charlie in his kitchen stirring the gravy

I went to have a closer look, and noticed there were things for sale in the window – plants and shells and other bits and bobs picked up from the beach. Once inside I met Charlie, the elderly gentleman who lived there. I bought a few things from him and arranged to pick them up after the game. When I returned, Charlie invited me into the back room for a cup of tea. The walls were full of photographs, mostly of his wife Betty, who had died a few years earlier. I didn't see my photos of Charlie as a project – it didn't have a deadline and there was no grand plan for it. I took most of the photographs with a medium-format Pentax 67 on a tripod, but this one was with a handheld rangefinder.

Spending time with Charlie was like a kind of therapy – he was so set aside from the rat race of the modern world. Born: London 1962. Pere Formiguera. Julian Germain Generations project. The Five Year Photo Project. Daily Photo Aging Project ( photo-a-day ) Here's my latest video.

Daily Photo Aging Project ( photo-a-day )

It's entitled "Rip Dan Wrinkle" and it encompasses a little over 20 years: This is the first aging video I created. It's entitled "Time of my Life". It was created about 4 years ago and encompasses approximately 16 years. It's a low resolution, non-dejittered, highly compressed version: You can also download a copy of "Time of my Life" if you click here . Steven Hoskins is a video artist who used some of the photos. The following images are of the apparatus that I'm using to create a stop-motion animation of myself getting older. An early photo of the ring when I used to live in Chatsworth (LA). Normally the ring hangs from the ceiling but this is similar to what I do when I travel. The ring viewed from the top. Close up of the Spring section. Close up of the Fall section. Partially dismantled. Completely dismantled. All 8 of the ring segments Just prior to packing.

All packed up. Packed and ready to go. The ring is designed as follows: