Welcome to my blog.
This is my outlet for projects that are not necessarily professional but more personal in nature. Things that inspire me, that I think are beautiful, meaningful or just plain fun. To the left you can find links to websites where you'll find my portfolios, bio, etc. I hold the copyright to text and images presented here. You are welcome to share, in a noncommercial way. If you do, please credit Laura Ljungkvist.Check into older posts now and then as I frequently update my collections. Enjoy!
I have been documenting the big building boom/gentrification going on Down Town Brooklyn for a while. Fulton Street, you can tell, was once a shopping esplanade “a la Paris”, which became rundown and sleazy in the 1950 after the highways that were built led the gentry to move and abandon Brooklyn for the suburbs. Now […]
Here are some postcards for around the world
There are inspiring scenarios all over and I find them everywhere, inside and outside. I always regret when I didn’t shout, STOP THE CAR!!!, or I didn’t turn around and walked back to get that shot of that special place. Here are some examples of when I did!
I get asked often where I get my inspiration. I usually say that I don’t know, that things just pop up in my head. Images and colors appear as out of “nowhere”. But where do they come from? I believe it must have been something that I at one point have “taken in, that’s “coming […]
As a committed city girl my nature experiences are a somewhat limited. Sometimes nature comes to me in small glimpses, and that’s enough. I’m not going camping anytime soon.
When my daughter was younger, she could not say the word “graffiti”. She would pronounce it, “garfitti”. So when I thought of a name for this post, that seemed just right – Garfitti.