If they move, kill’em (from the series Selfportrait as a nurse on Malmskillnadsgatan 96-06-05,17.35) A documentation of an actual staged photography scene/session, and an assignment for SVT/Swedish Television Broadcast. 

Excerpt from the interview with Tarantula Autors and Art: ‘Nurses seem to be in your subconsciousness or a huge inspiration. Talk to us a little bit abouth “If they move, Kill them” that you did in collaboration with Swedish television?  
SVB: I was asked to participate in a television program to talk about what kind of impact the city of Stockholm, and the architecture made on me. The assignment was to choose a spot in the city and do a photoshoot for the television team using a 180-degree wide-angle camera and a self-timer. The self-portraiture genre was going to be a starting point. I chose a dull, lifeless, and boring space which needed some caring and a nurse to add some love and life into it. The spot, a square, called Brunkebergstorg surrounded by shopping malls, theatre, and hotels, but mainly by bank offices, as means of my metaphor and background story. The research I had done was basically for statistics around workplaces in bigger cities. It went like this: The staff working at the national bank, close to my spot where I was shooting, was asked to answer a survey of questions and which professional role their dream partner would have. The majority answered, nurse. Another crucial and important part of choosing this spot, was that the prostitution in those days took place there. If they move, kill’em, is a line from American western action movie, by Sam Peckinpah. In these American western movies, the action scenes, killings of indigenous people is the main plot as well as treating women like objects, either they are in brothels or housewives. I wanted to make a statement to that, taking the nurse to a level where she strikes back in a movement of action as a sign of vendetta on the male gaze and violence against women. Making no excuse. 

Read the whole interview here: https://tarantulaauthorsandart.substack.com/p/the-self-portrait?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=371521&post_id=141859839&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=39muja&triedRedirect=true