Åke E:son Lindman (born in 1953, lives and works in Stockholm) is internationally well known for his architectural photographs of iconic buildings, from the Flatiron Building in NYC to historical palaces or spectacular residential villas in different parts of the world. The composition is often classic, with the formal language and geometric abstraction of Modernism as a starting point. He has a unique ability to convey the distinctive features of buildings thanks to his sense of surfaces, lines and volumes.

The exhibition title Luz revelada (Revealed Light) refers to Åke E:son Lindman’s deep fascination with how light defines architecture, space, and material. The title evokes both the photographic act of revelation — when an image emerges in the darkroom — and the metaphysical moment when light discloses the hidden character of a place. In Lindman’s work, light is not merely illumination but a medium of discovery: it unveils form, memory, and presence.

Åke E:son Lindman began his career within the analogue photo tradition and his work shows a strong fascination of the dark room technique in itself, the material properties and chemical processes of photographic images.

His interest for the experimental history and the beginnings of photography in the mid-19th century is reflected in the series Naturalis. The images feature plants and foliage from his own garden, captured using a pinhole camera that he made himself. Chance and intuition determine the composition of each image, where the mood is poetic and enigmatic.

Chance is also the starting point for the Chemigram series. No camera is involved, and there is no subject in the traditional sense. The photographer allows the developing fluid to flow over the photographic paper, which he then turns and folds to make the fluid flow in different directions. As the process suggests, each image is unique. The material is black and white but the end result still full of colour. At the beginning of the process, he has no clear idea what the end result will be, as the image has not yet been stabilised by the fixer.

The Chemigram images bring to mind a landscape beyond the real world, evoking feelings of infinite nature and the spiritual dimension of landscape. As in all of his work, it is the interplay of light and shadow that takes centre stage.

Åke E:son Lindman's photographs are published in the world’s leading architecture magazines, Architectural Digest and Wallpaper to name a few, and he has documented the works by prominent architects such as Oscar Niemeyer, Carlo Scarpa and Rafael Moneo. He is represented in the photography collections of the Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, among others.