HÅKAN LUDWIGSON at LYDMAR HOTEL

The photographs in Balls and Bulldust which document the work of livestock farmers on some of Australia´s largest stations in its Northern Territory can be seen as a testimony of a profession that many of us have only seen on film, but even more as a personal portrait of those men and women who live a life of relentless and tiring manual work. They are simultaneously action photographs and close-up, intimate portraits showing a rare connection between the subject and photographer. The people depicted can easily be lifted out of their specific environment, thereby creating a sense of universality that casts a different, individual nuance to the observer. 

Håkan Ludwigson is one of Sweden’s most acclaimed international photographers. He has worked on worldwide commercial assignments and projects for 50 years and the 25-year engagement with Condé Nast Traveler made Ludwigson into one of the magazine´s real veterans! His photographs have been exhibited nationally and he has been awarded international prizes including Gold by the Art Directors Club Miami and Gold Pencil for Photography by Britain’s D&AD. He has won The One Show in New York, the Silver Lion in Cannes and the Guldägg in Sweden.