Jeppe Wikström
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 Jeppe Wikström in April 2011 | |
Jeppe Olof Wikström (born 10 April 1963) is a Swedish book publisher and photographer. He is also part owner of the publishing house Bokförlaget Max Ström in Stockholm.
Wikström was project manager in 2009 for Peace! 100 Voices against Violence and War (Swedish: Fred! 100 röster mot våld och krig),[1] which focused on educating young people about alternatives to violence between individuals and nations alike. The initiative coordinated a series of public school events and raised funding to produce a book that was distributed free of charge to all Swedish 16-year-olds.
Wikström is co-founder of Expressions of Humankind Foundation and the director of the global photo project A Day in the World, where people all over the world took pictures of their everyday life on the same day.
Background
Jeppe Wikström was born and raised in Stockholm, the son of Jan-Erik Wikström, a politician who served as Minister for Education in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1982 and was Governor of Uppsala County 1992–1997.
Wikström sold his first photograph at the age of 12 to the weekly magazine Svensk Veckotidning,[2] and by 14 was an apprentice staff photographer at the Stockholm daily newspaper Expressen.[3]
Professional career
Wikström fulfilled his compulsory military service in 1982-83 as a journalist with the armed forces newspaper Värnpliktsnytt. In 1986 he founded the image agency Skärgårdsbild, focussing on nature photography and the Stockholm archipelago. He started a sister company Äventyrsbild in 1989 to specialize in travel and adventure photography.[4] The two agencies were acquired in 1991 by Pressens Bild, where Wikström became marketing director for the combined company. In this capacity, he has led the production of more than 150 photography books published by Max Ström.
Together with Marika Stolpe, Wikström founded the publishing house Bokförlaget Max Ström in 1991, where he now works full-time as publisher.
Professional awards
In 2007, Wikström was awarded the St. Eriks Medallion (in Swedish) by the City of Stockholm for, as the citation read, “his meticulous and buoyant depictions of the capital city in photographs.”
In 2010, Wikström was honored by Sweden's Princess Christina “for his contributions to building bridges between culture and the business community.”[5]
For their work with Peace! 100 Voices against Violence and War, Jeppe Wikström and writer Saam Kapadia shared the Eldh-Ekblad Peace Prize in 2010,[6] the 50th anniversary of the award given annually by the Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society.[7]
In 2012 Wikström was awarded the Bellman Prize by the City of Stockholm for his ”dedicated commitment to the art of photography”.[8]
Nonprofit work
In 1995, Wikström founded Galleri Kontrast,[9] then the largest photographic exhibition gallery in Sweden, under the auspices of the Press Photographers Club, a non-profit professional association.
He has served on the boards of directors of the Lennart Nilsson Award[10] for science photography and the Press Photographers Club.
In 2010, Wikström was instrumental in establishing the international non-profit foundation, Expressions of Humankind, which supports scientific research and education centered on photographic images and the written word. In May 2011, the foundation announced the project A Day in the World.
Bibliography
Jeppe Wikström is the author of several photo books, including:
- Harmony of the Stockholm Skerries, 1995
- Stockholm Horizons, 1996
- Stockholm Time and Again, 1998
- A Day in the Life of Sweden, 2003
- Stockholm from Above, (Swedish: Stockholm från ovan), 2005
- Archipelago Mystery (Swedish: Skärgårdsmysteriet), 2007
- Document STHLM, 2008
- Peace! 100 Voices against Violence and War (Swedish: Fred! 100 röster mot våld och krig), 2009
- A Day in the World, 2012
- ABBA the Official Photo Book, 2014
Family and personal life
Jeppe Wikström has been married since 1997 to author and publisher Marika Stolpe. The couple has two children: Nike (born in 1997) and Vilhelm (born in 2000). The family lives in the town of Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago.
References
- ^ Flickan bakom krigsbilden berättar Archived 2012-10-18 at the Wayback Machine Dagens Nyheter, 17 September 2009 (in Swedish)
- ^ Ullenius, Agneta (15 February 2008). "Med öga för Stockholm". Svenska Dagbladet (in Swedish). ISSN 1101-2412. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Good Pictures Come from within - an interview with Jeppe Wikström | Faces of Design". Archived from the original on 16 August 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011. Faces of Design Feb. 25, 2010
- ^ Aktuell Fotografi nr 5 1991
- ^ "april 2010". Från huvudstad till världsstad (in Swedish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ Fredspris till Jeppe Wikström Svenska Dagbladet, May 24, 2010 (Swedish)
- ^ Archived copy Archived 2012-08-31 at the Wayback Machine Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society
- ^ "Förslag till mottagare av Stockholms stads hederspriser, Bellmanpris och Cullbergpris år 2012". insynsverige.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 4 May 2024.
- ^ "Galleri Kontrast". Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011. Archived 2011-08-11 at the Wayback Machine Galleri Kontrast
- ^ "Lennart Nilsson Award". Archived from the original on 8 February 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2011. Lennart Nilsson Award
