Lennart Olson started working as a freelance photographer in 1954 and quickly became one of the leading photographers in Sweden while he was a founding member of the Swedish photographic association ‘Tio Fotografer’ in 1958. In the 1960s, Lennart Olson concentrated on filmmaking and produced dozens of documentary pictures for Swedish television, bringing his taste for quiet immensity stills into animated souls. His work has been shown at many prestigious institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
