Nicklas Rydberg

Just an old man with a camera

I was born in the sixties and began to grew up in a world where man went to the moon and did the other things. Everything on tv were in black and white and the cold war was a real and present thing. But things changed. However, let me point out that the bygone era wasn’t the best of times. These are the best of times.

What I have learned along this journey is shrouded in obscurity. My blessed friend Mats summed it all up well. "With age comes experience and wisdom but not necessarily the ability to use them." I hope I will learn more before this journey is over.

I've had my camera close at hand for over 50 years now. It started with an Instamatic with horrible results. The next step was a Minolta that I hardly let go of for a decade or so. I think it's still in a box somewhere in the attic. Years passed and my first digital camera achieved results painfully close to the then long-vanished Instamatic.

"The moment comes like a snail and disappears like lightning." I think I heard it from the then DN (a major Swedish newspaper) photographer Olle Seijbold for the first time, sometime in the 1970s. There is undeniably something in that quote.

Nowadays it’s my Canon with which I try to capture those fleeing moments. Most of them consist of women’s hockey, but I find time for a bit of other things as well.

Throw me an email and tell me about your moments. Maybe it will be your fleeting moments that I capture next time. Before they disappear like lightning.