Hanna Håkansson

There’s something happening in Stockholm with teenagers who are making genuine work. Photographs, music, real things. Hedvig Boström, Carolina Engman, Lovisa Rantå—they didn’t wait for platforms or permission. They just started.

Hanna Håkansson is sixteen, part of that same current. She models sometimes, but the real work is the photo blog she runs with Fanny Wikstad, called Worm vs. Bird. Every frame is clean about what it wants to be—no excess, no overthinking, just direct aesthetic choices. And she’s in a band too, Shivering Heights with Sara Hellgren, making these strange eerie songs that sound like they’re transmitting from a place that doesn’t quite exist. Minor keys, genuine weirdness, the willingness to risk it.

I spent time with what she’s made, the photographs and the recordings, and one thought kept returning. She worked out something most people never figure out. Not the technical part or the tools or the connections. Just the simple fact that you can create something and share it. No permission. No waiting. You just do it. Some people understand that. Most people don’t.

I’m not sure what to conclude from that. Just that I noticed it.