Exhibition

Hi lovers. I'm having an exhibition next friday in Uppsala and I'd love it if you'd come and see. There will be a a collection of new and old works. Mostly new ones and old (but unpublished) photos from my archives. The entrance is of course for free and there will be refreshments and good company.

Loads of thanks to Vox Publicum for helping me out with this exhibition, they're absolutely amazing.

Cleopatra

I officially had the best night yesterday. Me and my class had our graduation party with "Come as a country"-theme. I was Egypt. And seriously, being Kleopatra has never been this much fun.

Absence

There has been a serious lack of posts this spring. I apologize for that. Believe me, I'd love to write but I have nothing to write about since spring has been school, school, school nonstop for me and seriously: you don't want to read about that, it's mostly me naggning about how much I don't like biology. Instead I'm going to give you some news: 1. I'm graduating in less than a month, which means that I get to pursue photography 100%, which I've never done before. I'm very, very excited. 2. I made it through to the interviews for Gamleby Fotoskola here in Sweden, which is also VERY exciting so I'll be travelling there next week to be put on the hot seat and questioned about how I feel and what I know about photography. Very nervous.

XIX

Today I'm turning 19. Which isn't the most exciting number but still, it's a birthday. I celebrated by eating Prinssesstårta (Princess cake, which is a delicious Swedish pastry, don't know if you have it abroad). And tea of course.

Wincing the night away

Last friday was a perfect finish off on the worst week I've had in a while. I've had basically no life during the last two weeks and now, finally, I could relax a bit. So I started the day off with shooting a fashion story (which I'll publish as soon as I can) and then spending time with the lovely Camilla, Miriam, Björn and Louise.
After Tacos and wine we headed to Berns.
The weather had been constantly changing all throughout the day. Sunshine, rain and then snow. But we prevailed. After all, we were seeing a very special band well worth a few raindrops.
The Shins. They were lovely.

Yoanne Lemoine

Recently I was watching Lana Del Rey's new video Blue Jeans and was pretty impressed as I thought that the video was one of the most goodlooking videos I've seen. The direction and photography was amazing. And Lana Del Rey of course.
So I decided to see who the director was. I found that his name was Yoann Lemoine and that he was also not only the director of the music video of Iron by Woodkid (which is one of my favorite videos and songs), no he was Woodkid.
This really caught my interest and I found myself flipping through the videos he had directed, all of them really really good. He is now one of my biggest inspirations.

Wanted

Hello all. I'm shooting a fashion story with Hannah on friday in Stockholm and we have an opening for a stylist assistant. The only requirements are that you are crazy into styling and speak pretty good english. Mail me at angelina@bellebergenwall.com

Australia II

I spent my first christmas away from home in the little beach town Robe. There we had lovely seafood and strong winds, as it should be on the coast. We also met this little cute sealion in the harbour who eagerly demonstrated his acrobatic water skills, he was adorable.
Then me, Deni and her lovely parents went to the beach. It was a bit too chilly to swim that day so we just walked around the beach looking for pretty seashells.
And after trying out surfing in the town Victor Harbour, which was surprinsingly enjoyable (I loved it actually), we went to the Zoo Urumbirra. There the kangaroos roamed free throughout the whole zoo and you could pet them and feed them as much as you liked. They were so gentle and adorable.
The koala was scary though and cared more about the eucalyptus than us.
Then we went for a walk on an island where there were supposed to be loads of penguins to be found. We didn't see any.
A couple of days later I went home. It was a long trip, really long (Australia, Malaysia, UK and then finally Sweden) and as soon as I stepped on the plan I knew I was going to miss Australia terribly. And now, two months later I really do. Australia is an amazing country and its people likewise. I hate that it's so far away, otherwise I'd be planning my next trip as soon as I could.

About dreams

About three weeks ago I asked you guys to tell me about yourselves. And believe me, it was so amazing to read about all of you. I never expected my readers to have so many different interests, dreams and hopes. However, one thing I noticed is that many of you seem to think that you're not good enough for doing what you dream of, or that there's so many others that are better. But we all started at nothing. I, myself, want to become a fashion photographer. I've wanted that for four years now, and have no intentions of becoming something else. I can't imagine myself doing something else.
I've been told that it's probably just a whim of mine and that I'll regret spending so much time on photography, because there are so many that want to become one. Why should I be one of them? Maybe I should keep it as a hobby and do something else instead. And I understand that. The odds are against me. But I don't believe that I can't do anything. Don't get me wrong, I don't really consider myself good enough, not yet. But I do know that if I work hard enough and never give it up, one day I will be. And if you really, really want it, you will be, too.

The wilhelm scream

Some unpublished shots from a shoot last october.

Interview

My friend Hannah recently honoured me by interviewing me for her a-mazing fashion blog The (Fashion)hash where she features photographers once every month, known as hash of the month. So if you'd like to take a look and read about how I view fashion photography and a few facts you perhaps didn't know. Head over to the interview!

Yesterday in pictures

Yesterday in pictures.
Lara was a ghost.
Philip was serious.
Lina was happy. (much to my dismay, there's a distinct rivalry between us two haha)
And then Philip and Julia even more so.
I was quite happy too. (I had this lovely tea at this lovely café, what could go wrong?)
Philip was silly.
And Lara was patient, waiting for the bus.
And that was yesterday.
(picture 3,4,5 were taken by Lara)

Birds

This is a little sneakpeek of an upcoming story. I shot this in December last year and can't wait for it to be all done.

Movie scenes

So, I was looking at one of my favorite scenes from youtube and thought I might share some with you. I couldn't fit them all into a post but I hope you like those I featured. For those of you that haven't seen the movies, there might be spoilers, so you all know.

Tell me about yourselves!

It was so nice reading about what you guys are going to do this fall. Feel like I'm getting to know you a bit more, so why don't we do it all the way? Tell me about yourselves! Where do you live, what do you do.. and hopes dreams, tell me everything!
In these pictures I'm wearing my absolute favorite sweater from American Apparel. I took these pictures out of boredom (I was cleaning my room, which is a total wreck and decided to take a break and take some photos).