Anders Petersen

Born in Stockholm in 1944, Anders Petersen studied photography under Christer Strömholm from 1966 to 1968. He is perhaps best known for his book Café Lehmitz, which was first published in 1978 and is now recognised as one of the classics of post-war European photography.

In Café Lehmitz, Petersen captured a time and place now long gone—a bar on Hamburg's Reeperbahn teeming with prostitutes, dropouts, and the fringe elements that went to make up a warm-hearted family of non-conformists, with whom he identified and felt totally at home.

In 1970, he co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, and has since continued taking photographs in his own unique fashion, following the rhythms of his own life.

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