An exhibition about what it felt like to stand in front of the camera 100+ years ago, and why people did it.
You have seen the black and white photographs in frames, albums, archives and on genealogy forums. Wondered if they depict your grandfather's paternal grandmother's great-aunt, or possibly your paternal grandfather's great-uncle's cousin.
Perhaps you've also wondered how it was that your relatives stood in front of the camera, what they were thinking, and why they did it? And wondered what the situation was really like with photography outside the big cities?
In the 1950s, the Nordic Museum collected stories from across the country about what it was like to be photographed a few decades before and after the turn of the 20th century. Together with portraits from the Östhammar-based photo studio Skötsner-Edhlund, the stories come to life in the exhibition "When I Was Photographed.".
Visit the exhibition and get a rather unusual glimpse into the experiences of rather ordinary people with portrait photography.
Location: Kulturhuset Storbrunn, Östhammar – in the Art Room inside the library.
Date: 9 June-22 August 2026. The exhibition is open during the library's opening hours.
Tickets: Free entrance
Organiser: Östhammar municipality
Exhibition Producer: Jenny Nolin, art historian with a special interest in early portrait photography
Event information
Event venue
- Region
- Östhammar municipality
- Price
- Free of charge
- Organiser
- Östhammar municipality
- E-mail address
- storbrunn@osthammar.se External link
- Phone number
- 0173-86300 External link
- Web site
- Organiser's website External link
