Posts Tagged ‘China’

Working for Sweden at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai is equal parts amazing, lovely, turbulent, intensive and insane. In a good way.
Over the past months I’ve been been working as a Press Officer and Photographer for the Swedish Committee for the participation at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, or World’s Fair as I [...]

Today the Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visited the Nordic Confucius Institute (part of the University of Stockholm). Speeches were held and songs were sung, Debora Hjälmarö sang “Kristallen den fina”, Alicia Rempler sang “wo ai ni zai bei de xue” and I, Paul Philip Abrigo sang “wo de zhongguo xin” accopmpanied by my very [...]

Dear fellow human beings, it’s been a while but things have been quite hectic on my front, to say the least. As I am leaving for Shanghai on the 1st of April (I know, it’s a joke ), to work at the Swedish Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo, looking for apartments for rent, [...]

The topic says it all. This is a visual recap of my 2010 January. Mostly shot in Stockholm, Sweden and Rome, Italy (duh).  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=195551&id=548710399&l=79b61f2c64
In other news: I seriously need to praise La Neta, my new absolute favourite dining place in all of Stockholm. Will upload pics as soon as I get any. Authentic Mexican food, [...]

Hellu again!
So I’m stuck at home with this mean cold, thus not really bothering with doing anything much but editing and uploading photos. Which is a good thing. The pile of unedited photos is just growing. I read somewhere that your ‘first ten thousand photographs are your worst’ (Henri Cartier-Bresson) and over the two years [...]

Hey folks!
I’m safely back from yet another successful adventure in China, this time in Changsha, Hunan Province. I was invited by the Konfucius Institute to come as audience for the Hanyu Qiao 2009 competition. It was an excellent trip, got to see and do a lot of things and people I probably wouldn’t have by [...]

I am going to China and will hopefully be back in Stockholm around the 9th of August… Take care until then!!! (Thanks Jakob for givin’ me a last minute ride to the Airport)