Sune Jonsson

Olov Sune Jonsson (20 December 1930 – 30 January 2009) was a Swedish documentary photographer and writer, recipient of the Hasselblad Award in 1993.

After studying folklore and literature in Stockholm and Uppsala, Jonsson returned in the early 1960s to northern Sweden.

Thematically, his photography was focused on the rural population, farmers, the man-made landscape and religious gatherings.

Jonsson's artistic visual production was inspired by photographers such as August Sander, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Wayne Miller and Edward Steichen, notably in the photo exhibition The Family of Man in 1955.

Swedish writer Ivar Lo-Johansson and his social work Den sociala fotobildboken was an important role model.

Sune Jonsson at his photographic exhibition in Vaasa , Finland, 1967.