The students finally get to rest. The event is over and the video I produced, is shown and hopefully appreciated. Akademisk högtid is a yearly event held for new scientist at the Universities around in Sweden. In Örebro this event was held Saturday the 7th of February. For this event the students of the Academy of Grythyttan where the creators of the food and I produced a video about their work in the kitchen and about their menu. The video was later shown at the event. This post hold the video as well as behind the scenes photos through out these past months the students have been preparing for the event, starting in November. Enjoy this kitchen story and Monday! Video- Akademisk högtid Thanks to the students of Grythyttan and The Fisherman for lending me the music. Photography- Akademisk högtid 15th of November, 2014- Early stage cooking. Trying out the coffee- pralines and main course, size and look. 19th of November, 2014- Early stage cooking. Creating first course, main course and dessert, improving. 16th …
Those days when you know that you need to do other stuff you tend to just go and do nothing. Our day doing nothing was filled with doing something, named shopping in Örebro. Martin needed to return a couple of jeans that didn´t live up to what was promised of them and we checked out IKEA for some frames. In the end we didn´t return with any frames but coffee- glases and scented candles. Now back home Martin is playing Grand Theft Auto and me are blogging, soon to edit some more photos from the shoot earlier this week. Have a great weekend! Katarina Canon 5D Mark iii 40mm Canon lens f.2.8 Edit Lightroom
The last post in this years nyårskarameller- check last years out here. September kom med fart och fläkt och jag åkte till Stockholm för att hänga med en annan bloggare som heter Antonia. Hon och jag gick på en lång fotopromenad och jag fick fota gröna lund för första gången. September arrived and along come speed and excitement and I went to Stockholm to meet up with another blogger named Antonia. She and I went on a long photowalk and I had shoot Gröna Lund for the first time. Samma helg var jag och min kompis Carro på modeuställning på Sven Harrys museum i Vasastan om svenska modedesigners och såg deras kreationer. The same weekend, me and my buddy Carro went on a fashion exhibition at Sven Harrys museum in Vasastan with Swedish fashion designers and saw their creations. Jag var på debutantcoctail i Grythyttan på Måltidens hus. I attended a debutant coctail party in Grythyttan. Jag började studera fotografering där jag skulle göra ett fotoprojekt. Åkte till Lesjöfors för att fota de första bilderna till projektet. I started …
A couple of weeks ago Martin and I packed ourself into my cute little Peugeot and went to Örebro and IKEA. All non-Swedes out there, you know what IKEA is right? Well, if you don’t, google it. Anyway, we headed for IKEA to get ourself a little workspace. I bought both the furniture for the workspace but also an external bigger screen then my little Macbook have and it feels so great! I am extra happy today when working on some photobooks for Christmas. You really need that big screen then. I want to wish you all a great and happy week! My week holds work and evenings spent preparing for Christmas and watching the Glades. Katarina View this post on Instagram A post shared by Äntligen vilse (@antligenvilse) Desk, lamp and coaster for the desk from IKEA. Wacom plate from Scandinavian photo (from the photofair in Stockholm), Macbook, Logitech mouse and Asus external screen
Me and Martin has been out and about today, doing some urban exploration. The notion of urban exploration might be new to someone but shortly it means, to explore a man-made object, often ruins or abandoned areas. This is a newly found interest of mine due to my photo project and I have posted posts before – Stripa Mossgruvan is a former mining village in the municipality of Ljusnarsberg in Västmanland (County of Örebro). I live in the county, so have about an hour by car to get to the two old mines in Mossgruvan, Sköttgruvan and Mossgruvan- mines. The two mines where found in the 1870´s and run to 1972, first started by SKF and culminating inbetween the years 56 to 58 (post-war times), by then owned by Hofors Bruk. Due to the prices of iron/ and the stone on the world market, the ability for Mossgruvan to compete vanished and the mine closed down by 72. The area is nostalgic in so many was. The buildings in the village are a remaining of the …
In the Instagram Travel Thursday post this week I wrote a question in the end of where to go for a short trip within 300 km from Bergslagen if me and boyf. wanted to go somewhere during this weekend. I think I got only one suggestion, and that is probably just because this guy is from the area and know what is within 300km from Bergslagen. Thanks to Replicant Core for suggesting Visingsö even if we ended up somewhere else.. Rep. Core is a blogger that lives in Örebro and comment frequently on my photos. Where did we end up then? The old mine of Stripa, Stripa gruva, is a mine in Bergslagen close to Lindesberg. It is really well preserved and a dream for photographers that loves history, rusty stuff and buildings. So Rep. Core, maybe this is something for you instead? Basic knowledge For 60 sek (around 10 dollars) you get a guided tour (ours where for 3 hours!) where the guide has a lot of knowledge of the area. The tour takes place …
After the master thesis presentation the 30th of may, we went to a place in Örebro close to Naturens hus. Some had a sallad, some had a barbeque. Photos with little or no saturation. First three photos is taken by Ben Crisp and edited by me. Rest taken by me and edited by me. All taken with my Canon 5D Mark iii, with 24-105 mm Canon lens, and edited in Lightroom. Katarina
Giving you my second part of my masterthesis while I am at a graduation celebration for a relative to Martin in Eksjö Sweden. Katarina The Construction of Nature and Wilderness Viewed as strong and pristine, nature has always been there for human kind. A view that journalists deal with every day, constructed a long time ago with the creation of the first national park in the United States. From one of many park benches on the Malecón, a long stretch of parks famous for it´s fantastic view and visited by many tourists, Barbara Fraser ponders about the philosophical side of nature “I think this whole concept of wilderness of pristine nature is a romantic concept that doesn´t always fit reality” she begins. In United States there is a whole movement to preserve wilderness even in areas that where not originally wilderness, Fraser continues.“Yosemite national park which was created, which is sort of the iconic park, was created by moving indigenous people out of that area so that the park could be created.” she says. To listen …
Forgot to publish this in March, just published the photostory of Independencia, but I also wrote a feature with pictures about the water situation in Lima and Peru. Hope you find it interesting! Arriving in Lima, the humid heated city air hit you straight in the face at Jorge Chavez airport, making you realize that you are no longer in a cold country of zero degrees and misty surroundings of Arlanda airport, Stockholm. Even though there are differences, Sweden and Lima share the common threat, a changing climate and what that entail. Walking the streets of a mega city is so much different from being in small country like Sweden, where there is no mega city as far as the eye can reach. In Lima 8,5 million (figure from 2007) people live their everyday life, the second biggest desert city next to Kairo. But the thing special about Lima, is the climate. The humid foggy air definitively makes a difference, something you notice, this and the fact that it is not as warm as you …
This post will be in English due to that Anders and me, are students in the same program, Journalism Connected in Örebro University in Sweden. I wan´t to tell a story about Anders, a crazy but always helpful media and technology person that helps me through my difficult times in Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, Indesign you name it. He is also the one making my stay in Peru easier through always bringing his laptop to lectures so I can participate through Skype AND AND AND recording the ones that I can not participate on, which basically is every morning due to the time difference. These nice gestures maybe seem to pass unnoticed, but they are not going to longer. Anders is as Rime going to do a documentary for his final thesis and is also going to crowd-fund this. (GO TO THE CROWD-FUNDING SITE RIGHT NOW.) But Anders, next to Rime that is staying in Europe, are going for Hongkong to report on the Occupy Central Movement. Have you heard of this weird name before (?!), …
Originally published in Type Magazine, Örebro University. New technologies are often presented and of many “important” people out there as the ultimate solution to climate change. Certainly there is something romantic about the idea that we can consume and get rid of the problem where consumption, at the same time as it “saves the environment”, leads to more jobs in a world that is struggling with high unemployment rates and increasing social inequality. World Economic Forum did a survey with its members about the next 12-18 months and its challenges, which resulted in the Top Ten Trends for 2014 in which persistent structural unemployment ranked third and inaction on climate change fifth among very varied challenges like megacities, conflicts in Africa and the Middle East and the spread of misinformation on the web. Loud and clear it is put out there that unemployment is seen by many as one of the biggest challenges for the closest future where Europeans and North Americans are the ones pointing it out most of all. In Europe we are …
Bought an iPad for the upcoming trip to Peru this weekend when passsing through Örebro. Found this amazing app, Adobe Ideas where I started painting. Such joy some creative time can give a person. Ended up with a lot of paintings. the result of some fashion sketches, my style, are found below for you to enjoy while I´m probably sleeping, trying to recover from my long travels cross the Atlantic’s. Katarina
My classmate Rime is doing a documentary about Syrian refugees in Europe and is going to crowdfund it, which means funding by givers. Click on this link and read about the project and if you like it, give a dollar or two. The more the merrier! It is important to highlight the refugees and their situation but also, how governments is handling it and that is why I think you should do as I did and support it. The giving part is very easy. This is Rime, my classmate and below you can read and watch her earlier work to make up your own mind. Katarina Freelancing, a double edged sword (written article) This is not a Christmas Break (film) TAMER ABU GHAZALEH, A PAN-ARAB MUSICIAN (written article and film) You find more of Rimes work on http://jctypemagazine.wordpress.com/, our student Magazine.
New article by me published about the Green Jobs movement on Type Magazine, our student newspaper at the University of Örebro. READ IT HERE! – in English. The article will later on be added to the archive and portfolio here on this blog. Happy reading, Katarina Photos of the beautiful windmills close to Ludvika here in Sweden. Took the photos for the article with my Canon 5D and my 24-105mm lens. When doing so I really wished that I owned a telescope-lens!
originally published on Type Magazine, Örebro University. The 20th of January Systembolagets released their sales figures for 2013, and the Swedish stronger beers are one of the winners, increasing with 0,8 % percent during the year even though a lot of people also go abroad to buy their alcohol due to the high alcohol-taxes in Sweden. The losers are ciders and strong wines, among others, actually having a decreasing sale. A trend of microbreweries that started a long time ago in the US have finally come to Sweden. Sweden had about 20 breweries in the early 90s compared to the later part of the 19th century when it were more than 500 breweries existing in Sweden. Now we have around 70-80 breweries and emerging, some numbers saying around 100 breweries. Katarina Wohlfart meet Grythyttan Brygghus, Grythyttan Brewery, situated in the northern part of the county of Örebro, to talk about brewing and their new Indian Pale Ale. By Katarina Wohlfart
Ursprungligen publicerat på Type Magazine, Örebro Universitet. The 20th of January Systembolagets released their sales figures for 2013, and the Swedish stronger beers are one of the winners, increasing with 0,8 % percent during the year even though a lot of people also go abroad to buy their alcohol due to the high alcohol-taxes in Sweden. The losers are ciders and strong wines, among others, actually having a decreasing sale. A trend of microbreweries that started a long time ago in the US have finally come to Sweden. Sweden had about 20 breweries in the early 90s compared to the later part of the 19th century when it were more than 500 breweries existing in Sweden. Now we have around 70-80 breweries and emerging, some numbers saying around 100 breweries. Katarina Wohlfart meet Grythyttan Brygghus, Grythyttan Brewery, situated in the northern part of the county of Örebro, to talk about brewing and their new Indian Pale Ale. By Katarina Wohlfart
Sedan jag började studera till journalist har jag har skrivit en hel del om konsumtion och överkonsumtion där jag både intervjuat modebloggaren bakom bloggen Modemanifestet, baserat på boken med samma namn av modejournalisten Sofia Hedström samt varit på en Miljökonferens för journalister om just konsumtion på Naturvårdsverket och intervjuat Åsa Ödman på Länsstyrelsen i Örebro, ansvarig rapportör för Konsumtion i Klimatprogrammet för Örebro Län. Mitt intresse för hållbar konsumtion kom mycket tidigare och det tog fart i och med att jag läste boken modemanifestet. Den gjorde att jag fick upp ögonen för slit och slängsamhället och den överkonsumtion modebranschen hitintills ofta har inneburit. Boken fokuserar på att journalisten Sofia Hedström slutar shoppa i 365 dagar och på lösningar i form av remake av kläder man redan har och har tröttnat på. Den ger fyndiga och mycket enkla tips om hur man kan göra om kläder för att de ska få ett uppsving, där ett av de extremaste exemplen är att gräva ner plagget i marken en viss tid för att de ska få en fin …
Min nya artikel som publicerades i Type Magazine igår. Längst ner finns tillhörande film som visar potentiella översvämningsområden i Örebro som finns på min nu också nya youtube kanal- Katarina Wohlfart. Ämnar främst att använda den till de filmer jag producerar som journalistiskt arbete, men vi får se, kanske får blodad tand. /Katarina It may not be obvious to everyone, but there is no snow. The weather in Sweden has been uncommonly mild during December, even past New Year’s Eve. But is this the calm before the storm? The 6th of December 2013 several parts of Skåne where flooded due to high seawater levels. Krisinformation.se, the webpage providing important information during a crisis, stated that municipalities warned house owners about water in cellars. Several media, among those SVT, reported of water filling the streets of Malmö, Helsingborg and other cities. Hallandsposten reported the same day that due to the river Nissan and its high water levels the municipality of Halmstad warned their inhabitants of the risk of walking and biking paths being covered with water and …
It may not be obvious to everyone, but there is no snow. The weather in Sweden has been uncommonly mild during December, even past New Year’s Eve. But is this the calm before the storm? The 6th of December 2013 several parts of Skåne where flooded due to high seawater levels. Krisinformation.se, the webpage providing important information during a crisis, stated that municipalities warned house owners about water in cellars. Several media, among those SVT, reported of water filling the streets of Malmö, Helsingborg and other cities. Hallandsposten reported the same day that due to the river Nissan and its high water levels the municipality of Halmstad warned their inhabitants of the risk of walking and biking paths being covered with water and that house owners living nearby Nissan, should keep an eye on their properties. At the same time, the storm Sven entered. Since then the mild December climate of 2013 continues and the weather seems uncommonly calm this time of year. But the risk of weather abnormalities such as storms and floodings lingers around the …
A more frequent, faster and less costly bus system – not more cars and roads- is the solution for the traveling demands of the future of Örebro. The most efficient way of moving a large number of people ought to be public transport. But why are public buses not working efficiently enough throughout the county, even in 2013? Every day hopping on and off the bus on the way to the University in Örebro, every day disappointed that the best way to travel takes 3-4 hours of the time that could have been spent better. Every month, when renewing the commuter pass it dawns: almost 1500 SEK poorer per month because of making the choice to live on the countryside. Express buses do exist, but they only run a couple of times per day, limiting the life of a long distance day traveller enormously. Every now and then, taking the car because of the poor system, the massive traffic during rush hour in Örebro becomes evident. The traffic jam mostly exists within the city, but …
