Photographer Maud Nycander took thousands of pictures of the young people who hung out at Fryshuset, in town and in their neighborhoods. The first generation of Swedish rap stars, those who turned rap into broad popular music – Ken, Petter, Dogge, Salla, Feven, Rodde, Chepe, Bechir – long before they became popular artists were caught in her pictures.
“Above all, I remember the joy, the dancing, the curiosity and the cockiness of a suburban generation that gathered around the hip-hop culture,” says Maud Nycander.
In the newly produced exhibition Hiphopen’s children, these images are collected, with text by, among
others, Gellert Tamas, who then worked at the Fryshuset and who was the one who gave Maud Nycander the photo assignment. Together, image and text tell the story of the Stockholm of the time – about the youth of the time.
The images from this time also form the basis of the television documentary “Beloved Husby”, which Maud Nycander and Marianne Gustavsson produced for SVT documentary.
