The Photography project (The forest in Geta) Getaskogen 2021-2024, is named after a racing track for carting in Södertälje. In the fall 2021 I started to shoot the 12-year-old female driver Milla Sjökvist, that I got contact with through research about female motorsport. My interest in racing reminded me of my own competing in Alpine skiing as a child, with its liberty in racing with speed.

For the following years Getaskogen 2021-2024 developed into shooting three girls: Milla, Minna and Alexia, that all compete in the first state of car racing, carting, and second state, Aquilla Formula 1000. I have been shooting most of the images at the carting racetrack near Getaskogen, Tuvängen Ring, outside Södertälje, but also includes images from Falkenberg’s racetrack, in south of Sweden, a racetrack where you can race with real cars as ex Aquilla Formula 1000 cars.

Minna, Milla and Alexia are all dreaming of becoming the first female Formula One driver to win, a dream that many women before them dreamt about without succeeding. The girls are dedicated, practicing several days of the week, and competing many of the weekends. Accept racing the girls are learning how using technologies and data analysis, such as eye tracking and attention computing, in the training to develop the performance, helping them achieve their dreams of racing.

Getaskogen 2021-2024 is a body of work of young girl’s dreams and the life and passion for racing. Layered with questions about history, gender and existential related questions. A story about being a female, in todays racing industry. Today only 1.5 % of the licenses is by women in the hole world. The motorsport has a gender disparity, when women are not acquired economic support to succeed in their career.

In 2023 no women are racing in Formula One. The last woman to compete was Lella Lombardi in 1976, that is 47 years ago a woman started a race in the most technologically advanced sport in the world – Formula One.

Getaskogen 2021-2024 is supported from SONY and with a working grant from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee.