TITLE: The Barbershop

With a free pass to roam as I pleased, I entered the world of Honest Al´s Barbershop to do a range of portraits of customers coming and going. With the working name "The Barbershop Tales" it also got me back into writing. Each photo comes, if you like, with a mood setting paragraph out of a noirish fictional story. Lasting a little over a year the project was a gift that kept on giving.

AUTHOR: Nick Svartengren (Sweden)

Photographer and artist. Born and raised in Stockholm.

Main track is black and white noirish portrait photography. The drive is to build scenes and stories from the borderland between reality and fiction, flashes placed in a time between now and back when. Inspiration comes from an affinity for the cinematic and chiaroscuro.

In addition to my main work I have a deep love for concert photography (as in artist portraiture) and for capturing the telltales of the urban city.

To pay my bills I´m on a regular basis hired for commercial portrait work.