Mangaestival, Uppsala 2011

The picture is part of a collection of digitally born images that photographer Peter Gullers took in Uppsala in 2006-2012. Peters Gullers writes the following about the pictures: "In the last two years I have regularly roamed Uppsala with camera and observed and documented daily life in streets and squares. No dramatic events, no fires, accidents, acts of violence with a so-called news value I have been a witness to. Today, what is not published in press or teve tends not to really exist. After all, it is in everyday life on the streets and squares that most of us come into contact with other known and unknown Uppsalabas. One reason why so many indivisible and spontaneous confirms that they notice that they are being photographed is perhaps that most of the time it is perceived as positive to be seen and thus confirmed. In the second place, I think the idea is that the gesture is a greeting to the future viewer of the picture in a possible publication. Nowadays it is no longer journalists, professional photographers and image editors who decide exclusively who should be confirmed by publication. Never have there been so much pictures as now and it is rather a rule than exception that the people you meet at sta 'n can be found with photo and personal data on the net - together with a often large number of named friends. But if we go ten or twenty years ahead in time, the question is what we then have for documentation of Uppsalaborna’s life today. The picture archives that are now often on mobile phones memory cards or laptocouples hard disks may not even be readable then - if they even remain. "