About

Vahid Cullsberg is a professional photographer who is based in Sweden, and exclusively uses analog cameras such as the Leica m3 and the Hasselblad 500c. He uses all kinds of films, mostly 35mm and 120-films and prefers above all the tonality of the Kodak-films. But first…

“Welcome to this attempt of transferring the texts from their original www.cullsberg.se to this side-running project.

The year of 1996, I was 17, was in a sort a turning point. I revisited the Centralafrican Republic after many years of absence and had until then been carrying a strong sense of “must return home”. See, I have four sibblings and we were all born and raised in the centralafrican lands. The first three in Tchad and the last two in the Centralafrican Republic. I happen to be number three. I was welcomed in this world in Tchad during a coup d’état which lead to our leaving the country three days after my birth. By landroad on a heavy truck, we travelled through the red land of Cameroun to finally settle in the northern parts of the Centralafrican Rep.

Due to circumstances, we had left the big continent in 1990 to live and to receive school education in the northern areas of Sweden. Hence my sense of “must return home”.

I did return. I returned to another coup. But this return was also a new journey. An exhilarating one! And it is ongoing…

It must also be known to you that as a result of a personal and independent investigation I have come to accept the message of Bahá’u'lláh and what it implicates to become a bahá’í. Simply put, “The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens“.

Now do not be put off if my posts are highly influenced thereof. These posts here are questions, thoughts, conclusions, remarks and amazements in this, a journey. And please bear with me if some of the posts are a bit adolescent…I don’t care..that’s how it was back then. I also regret to say that I have neglected to date the writings. They do not appear in chronological order.”