​Rather than approaching interdependence as a social or political concept, Sandgren explores it as a lived psychological experience: how we become ourselves through others, how care is expressed in everyday gestures, and how relationships continue to shape us even after loss. Her work brings together visual storytelling and psychological inquiry as complementary ways of investigating human experience.

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Her artistic practice emerged from a documentary project during her mother's final years—a shared process of meaning-making that also reconnected her with the work of her grandfather, press photographer Harry Lindwall. This experience became the starting point for an ongoing artistic investigation into care, grief, and the enduring bonds between people.

 

Her photobook En ovikt samling (An Unfolded Collection) includes the series Circles of Care, from which five photographs were selected for exhibition at the Hasselblad Photo Salon 2025. Through the simple act of making a bed for another person, the work reflects on the quiet, often invisible gestures through which care is sustained and relationships are continually enacted.

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Her current project, Broken Light (working title) explores grief following the loss of a loved one. Rather than representing memory as something belonging to the past, the work investigates how the self remains in dialogue with an irreversible absence. Here, light becomes a way of expressing psychological time, while photography and text together explore grief as an ongoing expression of attachment and care rather than a process of detachment.

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With more than thirty years of experience as a licensed psychologist, researcher, university lecturer, and certified affect-focused psychotherapist, Sandgren brings a deep understanding of emotional life to her artistic practice. Rather than using psychology to explain photography, she allows psychology and photography to meet as complementary forms of inquiry, each asking different questions about what it means to be human.

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Alongside her artistic work, she leads workshops and mentors photographers through Atelier Chroma, focusing on creative development, photographic practice, and the relationship between image, language, and artistic process. She also writes essays on photography, psychology, and human experience through On the Photographer's Voice (will be updated in Augusti 2026).