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Rikard Laving was born in the year 1978. He is a self-taught photographer that lives in Nyköping and works in the area around Stockholm. He worked as freelance for art-, lifestyle- and music magazines during 1999-2002. In -02 Rikard started working on his first large scale project, documenting the all year camping called Flatenbadet outside Stockholm. After two years at the camping he got in touch with the Swedish photographer Anders Petersen. Anders became his mentor until -05 when the project was finished. The photos were published by Journal as the book "Caravan” (containing 64 images) in the autumn of 2007.
Currently Rikard is working on two new series of pictures; one called Mental and the other with the work name, Steel/work/city.
Books
Da capo, Journal, spring -07.
(Granted "Good Swedish book art” 2007)
In the Da capo book Rikards pictures can be seen together with photographers such as J.H. Engström, Lars Tunbjörk and Anders Petersen
Caravan, Journal, autumn -07
Solo exhibitions
2007 Gallery Jonas Kleerup (Stockholm) "C A R A V A N"
2008 Gallery Formverk (Nyköping) "C A R A V A N"
2008 Gallery O (Oxelösund) "S T E E L / W O R K / C I T Y”
Group exhibitions
Da Capo,
2007 The Museum of Work (Swe: Arbetets museum) in Norrköping.
2007 Sundsvall Photo museum
2008 Gallery Rififi (Växjö)
2009 The Museum of art (Västerås)
Grants and awards
2008 Grant from the Swedish Authors Foundation
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