Ann Eringstam

The suite “In search of wonderland”, which includes the auction photograph, has a multi-layered expression. The woman in the pictures can be seen as a metaphor for our own search, where our senses are left to interpret what we want to see as physical or spiritual. Water - as sea, as ice, as lakes, as deceptive marshlands - is present in most of the pictures as a symbol of our existence, our primordial mother. Without water there is no life.

Aesthetically, Ann Eringstam's pictures are never sentimental, despite the romantic lists, because the serious element is consistently available in her imagery. Throughout the series “In search of wonderland”, Ann Eringstam is also physically present in the pictures, sometimes clearly, sometimes barely visible.

Since graduating from the School of Photography at the University of Gothenburg with a master's degree in photography in 2006, Eringstam has held several exhibitions in Sweden, as well as in Finland, France, Germany and the Netherlands.