I’M A NUT (2025)

"I bought a bag of peanuts from my local grocery store. I opened the bag but instead of eating I took a close look at the different nuts. This is what I saw." New book to be released in august 2025.

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Den svunna ön (2023)

[The lost Island]

"Den svunna ön" [The Lost Island] is a photo essay about Kläppen — an island that disappeared when the city of Malmö expanded during the 1960s. The book is a footnote on a forgotten passage in the city's history. Through explorations and re-enactments, it paints a picture of how past and present merge in a place that no longer exists.

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After Exposure

– A Cyclopedia of Broken

Cameras (2021)

The book is a homage to Christer Andersson, a local camera repairman in Malmö, Sweden. After sixty years in the industry he closed his workshop and left behind a scrap depot that eventually ended up in my home. "After Exposure – A Cyclopedia of Broken Cameras" is an archaeological survey of these remains. The book takes a close look at a tool that is usually looking at us. On the way to the dump, the camera wrecks have overnighted in this book.

The evolution of the camera seen through the remains of a camera workshop.

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The Name of Us (2014)

”Nils Bergendal’s works [The Name of Us] echo hollow, leaving an emptiness nonetheless filled, buzzing with the lives of the departed. At its best, this sensation delivers a brand of metaphorical sublimity, casting the viewer out into vast and wild fields of association. Startled before these works, we can only succumb.”

Axel Andersson, Konsten.nu