ABOUT
I was told I was too much,
too loud,
too sensitive.
I believed it…sometimes I still do.
But the camera taught me to see without judgment,
and one day I finally saw what I’d been missing all along.
Now, I cater to the dreamers, the loud ones.
The ones who always saw themselves as outsiders.
Just like I did…
I’m Sissela.
I work in truth.
I sit in the dark with people until the light comes.
I stay when the mask slips, when the breath catches, when the old stories get loud. And they can get so loud…
I don’t create portraits to make people look beautiful; they already are.
I create them so they remember whatever it is that needs remembering.
What I offer isn't a service. It’s a reckoning.
It’s standing at the edge of the version of you the world told to shrink, and choosing not to go back.
I’ve lived in many places -
Denmark, the U.S., and now the deep green quiet of Sweden.
But I’ve always lived outside the lines.
Too much, too soft, too large, too curious, too intense.
And somehow, too invisible anyway.
That ache taught me how to see.
Not just the surface, but everything that goes on beneath.
The grief.
The wilderness under the skin.
That’s what I give people:
a place to stop performing,
a mirror that doesn’t lie,
a memory of who they are when no one is watching.
I give people permission to exist just as they are.
So no, I don’t just take pictures. I stand with you while you come home to yourself. And I don't look away.
