iFotografiska Stockholm · Södermalm
Nils Petter Löfstedt: The Unmeasurable
Nils Petter Löfstedt's photographs honour care work, human dignity and the invisible bonds that hold society together.
A preschool worker moves through a nap room making up each mattress, a pillow and a neatly folded blanket on every one, with the same care she gives the children. It is a short clip, and Cecilia Alstermark, reviewing for Arbetet, found in it "details that say everything".
You walk into one of Fotografiska's smaller rooms: over 40 photographs, videos and texts from elder care, home care, personal assistance and preschools. Löfstedt took the earliest pictures in 1998 at the day-activity centre where he worked, and the show grows out of his 2024 documentary of the same name, seen by half a million people on SVT Play. He switches between colour and black and white, and the last stretch is black and white only, with hands coming back again and again.
Alstermark called it small in size but large in what it does to the viewer. Entry is included in the 195 SEK museum ticket, Fotografiska is open until 23:00 daily, and the show runs until 7 February 2027.
Look for
The nap-time clip
Look for the video of a preschool worker making up the children's mattresses before their rest, each with a pillow and a neatly folded blanket.
The black-and-white hands
The show ends on black-and-white photographs only, and hands of carers and the people they care for keep recurring through them.
The 1998 pictures
The oldest photographs, taken at the day-activity centre where Löfstedt himself worked, years before the film began.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Evening Visits
Skip if
You want a big show: this one fits in one of Fotografiska's smaller rooms.
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Image credits
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- Nils Petter Löfstedt: The Unmeasurable© Nils Petter Löfstedt
- City FacesCourtesy of Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)
- Byggfenomen: The First and Last Thing We SeeCourtesy of ArkDes
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Tehran/New YorkCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- Fotografiska StockholmJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ArkDesMarco Cappelletti, CC BY 4.0
- Moderna MuseetHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0