Michael Weinstein

Where is Home? Having always treated the subjects of her photo-documentaries with sympathy, insight and graciousness, Tone Stockenstrom sharpens her virtues in her most demanding challenge thus far--an expedition of self-discovery to her native Sweden where she encounters her familial relations through the lens. A world traveler and adventurer who has visited thirty countries and has called the U.S. home since she was six, Stockenstrom returned to her roots in search of her identity. Incapable of egotism, she found what she always does--distinctive personalities that she renders with nuanced emotion. We do not have to know the nationality of her subjects or her blood relation to them in order to connect with their individualities; an old woman with a bandaged cheek, who happens to be Stockenstrom's aunt Monika, wears an incredibly complex expression of youthful wonder and resigned wisdom--the distillation of her life.

Tone Stockenstrom shows at the Swedish American Museum, 5211 North Clark, (773)728-8111, through September 4. (2005-07-21)

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