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Jeppe Olof Wikström, born April 10, 1963, is a Swedish book publisher and one of the country’s best known and most published photographers. He has some 20 titles to his credit and combined sales exceeding 500,000 copies (April 2011). He is the initiator of several of Scandinavia’s largest photographic projects and the winner of several awards for excellence in photography. He is also part owner of the publishing house Bokförlaget Max Ström in Stockholm. Wikström was project manager in 2009 for ''Peace! 100 Voices against Violence and War'' (Swedish: ''Fred! 100 röster mot våld och krig''),〔() ''Dagens Nyheter'', Sept. 17, 2009 (Swedish)〕 which focused on educating young people about alternatives to violence between individuals and nations alike. The initiative coordinated a series of public school events and raised funding to produce a book that was distributed free of charge to all Swedish 16-year-olds. He is co-founder of Expressions of Humankind Foundation and the director of the global photo project A Day in the World, where people all over the world took pictures of their everyday life on the same day. ==Background== Jeppe Wikström was born and raised in Stockholm, the son of Jan-Erik Wikström , a politician who served as Minister for Culture in the Swedish government from 1976 to 1982. Later, he became the Governor of Uppsala Province. Wikström sold his first photograph at the age of 12 to the weekly magazine ''Svensk Veckotidning,''〔() ''Svenska Dagbladet'' Feb. 15, 2008〕 and by 14 was an apprentice staff photographer at the Stockholm daily newspaper ''Expressen''.〔() ''Faces of Design'' Feb. 25, 2010〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeppe Wikström」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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