As long as I can remember I have been fascinated by islands and have studied maps and fantasised of travelling to different islands. When it comes to islands the geographical limitation is obvious and effects the way of life.

TUROCHRETUR (a rewriting of the Swedish word for return ticket) today consists of tree different parts, Norden, Capri and Svalbard. On my travels I have investigated which anonym’s objects there is on these islands. That is for example electrical boxes, football goals, lamp posts and mail boxes. It is a comparison study of different places where the objects are the same, but the background, the landscape, varies. The islands I have visited can be seen as exotic and unique, but there are many things that are similar to places all over the world. I have chosen to call the project TUROCHRETUR, since my visit is short, almost like a tourist. But I have turned my camera towards objects the temporary visitor seldom notices. All the projects consist of a series of photographs and a map where the photographed objects are marked out.

The four islands in TUROCHRETUR/Norden är Røst/Norway, Holmön/Sweden, Kökar/Åland and Anholt/Denmark. In this project there are small differences in the landscape, which is the background of the objects. The travel in the Nordic countries became a search for a Nordic identity and my own search for a landscape I can call my own. I visited the islands during the summer 2002 and returned to all the islands the next summer to exhibit the project. TUROCHRETUR/Norden consists of 18 photographs and 1 map from each island, all together 76 photographs.

I went to Capri because I was interested in Anacapri, the place where Axel Munthe in the late 1800s built Villa San Michele, today a museum and tourist attraction. What made him love Capri and what made him stay there. I my photographs the landscape is hidden behind buildings and walls and he rocky island is inaccessible. I visited Capri in Capri September 2002. TUROCHRETUR/Capri consists of 40 photographs and 1 map.

Svalbard is a place where humans do not belong, the polar bear rules and the permafrost makes it impossible to grow anything. In Longyearbyen, the biggest town in Svalbard, a couple of thousand people live there lives adapted to midnight sun, total darkness and a constant presents of polar bears. Ever since I in my early teen ages read about Andrées attempt to fly over the North Pole with a balloon I wanted to visit the place where he started his doomed journey. I spent two months in Longyearbyen during the autumn in 2004. TUROCHRETUR/Svalbard consists of 17 photographs and 1 map.

TUROCHRETUR is a project which will go on for a couple of years ahead and other islands I wish to visits are Mauritius, Easter Island and Gotska Sandön. The photographs from the different islands can be presented on their own but I will in the future also put parts of the material together.