Jonas Peterson, photographer and digital artist, born in 1972 in Göteborg, Sweden, lives in Austin, Texas Untitled, from the series "Youth is Wasted on the Young" - 2022 - Digital art

Jonas Peterson

We live in a time where age is a hindrance more than a badge of honor. The idea behind “Youth is wasted on the young” was to celebrate the so called old, a comment on ageism if you want. A positive quiet homage to people who’ve seen more than us, the ones who've been there, done that.The series have been shared over 10

I worked on a cruise ship once and with the years some of the memories of mundane tasks have faded. What’s left are the people I met. The crew were a mix of rag-tag souls from around the world. We were all broken in some way or another. I remember Pawel, the Polish guitar player. One night when I went outside for some