Berndt Klyvare (1929–2008) and his daughter Miriam Klyvare (b. 1960) both chose photography as their artistic medium. Berndt was self-taught and worked primarily in documentary photography, reflecting the spirit of his time. He also produced portraits of writers, mainly for Bonniers litterära magasin (BLM). In the early 1960s, he shifted his focus to filmmaking. Miriam studied reportage and documentary photography at the Nordic School of Photography in the mid-1980s.

In the exhibition Pappa och jag, Miriam has brought together a selection of her father’s work from the 1950s and 1960s with a smaller number of her own photographs taken during travels to various countries. The exhibition presents two generations of photographers, closely connected by family ties, who have captured moods and street scenes in different parts of the world.

Berndt travelled to Ireland, the Shetland Islands, England, and Paris, while also documenting Stockholm at moments that have since become part of history, preserving the atmosphere of a bygone era. Miriam has frequently returned to Venice in winter, but the exhibition also includes photographs from Budapest, Russia, and India.

Miriam occasionally worked alongside her father during his film productions and assisted him in the editing room. She also helped him make darkroom prints when he needed photographic copies, including for the Swedish National Portrait Collection.

Through this exhibition, Miriam reveals the close affinity between her own life’s work and that of her father. The visual worlds of the two photographers often revolve around similar subjects. Most notably, their photographs of street life and urban environments display a striking familial resemblance, despite having been taken in different eras and in different parts of the world.