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“BLUES ALIVE” A Reportage from Brian Kramer’s International Blues Jam

These photos are about energy, togetherness, and the way music becomes a language that needs no translation.
Through this series, I aim to show how blues, a genre born from pain, joy, and freedom, continues to live in the modern city, connecting different cultures, generations, and stories.
It is a slice of life that unfolds every Saturday night at the Engelen pub.

Why this?

I have always been fascinated by live music, not as a performance, but as a form of human communication.
In a time when so much of our interaction moves into the digital space, genuine live connection, improvisation, and emotion on stage have become rare.

Brian Kramer’s International Blues Jam at Stockholm’s Engelen pub is not just a music event. It is a space where musicians from all over the world gather without rehearsals or scripts to create in the moment.
These encounters hold honesty, humanity, and a unique freedom of sound that I want to capture through my photographs.

Dive into the rhythm of moments - from the focused tension of a musician to the smile of a listener in the crowd, from a bartender’s laugh to the breath of a guitar.