The photographic museum, Panasonic and a photographic breakfast
I have had an breakfast meeting the staff of the Photographic museum and Nordic staff of Panasonic. At first when arriving at Slussen it seemed hard to actually find the museum. But after walking sometime and asking about directions.
The vice VD Charlotte Wiking of the Fotografiska explained to me that swedish people often have a hard time finding them but that people from abroad think its lovely to have the exhibition so central. I now that they for sure is near one of the most famous tourism stroke with all their great views of the city.
Panasonic was presenting their cooperation with the museum and they said it was in the breathe of innovation. They want to innovate and as i was talking to the nordic ceo all i could think is that if only they had in interest the photograph they should be sure they could use the microfourthirds with adapter.
It is strange that Panasonic is not talking about the existing adapters to any old lens that do exist, but i guess they want to sell their own lenses. The strength of micro-4/3 is that there are adapters that make you able to use any lens even though it is Nikon or Canon.
First we visited the exhibition of Joel-Peter Witken and being a very artistic photograph he surely is one end of the scale. It was strange that he is using dead bodies to portrait situations. The absurdity of the photographs took over. The we walked around looking at Annie Leibovitz exhibition for some time talking about photography being the common nominator.
Both Annie and Witken wanted to sit next to Lennart Nilsson at the opening and that shows how big he is abroad. I think myself he is a great photographer who is really innovative with photos of the unseen universe showing pictures of unborn children and likewise.
