The idea of Paradise started four years ago with the idyllic stereotype that foreigners have about the perfect Sweden.I’m showing a grittier and more energetic view, a new image of Stockholm, in personal atmospheric neo realism.Critics have been writing about it at www.gosee.de:“Even if that certain grit and the red light districts are missing from Sweden’s nightlife, the urban organised city life does however offer countless situations and locations that are suited for "Swedish Street Photography”. One of their representatives is Joakim Kocjancic, LinkImage photographer, whose ‘Paradise’ series in now on display at the Double Elvis Gallery in Stockholm. 

Half Italian, half Swedish, he was born in Milan, 1975. Following his graduation from art school in Italy and London, he decided to return to his Nordic home a few years ago. 

He has been working on his Paradise series since 2006. He was inspired by the tourist view of Scandinavia’s exemplary metropolis. 
His pictures aren’t quite as rose tinted. They unfold a darker version of the story. Perhaps a more exciting version, but one that is certainly better suited to the myths and dangerous secrets of the past. 

The photos themselves bring to mind 1960s street art photography, with references to American or Japanese photographers. He photographs on film and finishes all fine art gelatine prints himself.”