Martin Olson

• Biography: Martin Olson found his first camera, a red plastic point-and-shoot, abandoned on a park bench in the small harbor town of Öregrund, Sweden. Born just outside Stockholm, Martin had moved to exotic (to him) suburban New Jersey at the age of 7 and was back visiting his home country for the summer. He dutifully dropped the camera off at the small local police station and was told that if nobody came to claim it, it would be mailed to him in the US via his grandmother. A month later the camera arrived in New Jersey, although, sadly, grandma Luppe had decided to remove the nearly finished roll of film. 20 years later, after thousands of photos and a degree in high school history education, Martin lives and works in Brooklyn as a Web developer. He tries to stay busy with as many creative things as he can cram in, including a number of musical projects. He is always carrying around a camera to indulge in a bit of photography when something interesting pops up. He still tries to get back to Sweden when he can but has yet to find another piece of consumer electronics just lying around.

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