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The Forty Steps are a favorite attraction along the famous Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island. Originally they were a natural formation that led down to the shoreline, but eventually a set of steps was built which was later replaced by the current ones as seen in my picture. The history of these transformations can be seen in the paintings of the 19th- and early 20th-century artists who visited the area as well as in photographic postcards. I decided to process my photograph in the spirit of those painters.

Welcome to my website! I am an award-winning photographer of editorial and fine-art images. My book Historic Hudson Valley: A Photographic Tour, photographed and authored with my son, Anton, was published in July 2013. My goal is to create Fine Art Photography that captures the natural and the historical landscape. In place of a personal tour, my photographs share with you the places I love and that mean most to me—above all, the Hudson Valley and Catskills where I live, New England which brings me back to my affinity with the coast, and Sweden, where I lived for several years and where I first picked up a “serious” camera. As a trained historian, one of my great passions is to photograph old buildings. Whether abandoned ruins or...