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Anders Petersen (born 1944) is a Swedish photographer, based in Stockholm. Petersen studied photography in Sweden in the 1960s. He is known for his intimate and personal documentary-style black-and-white photography. For over three years from 1967 he photographed the late-night regulars in Café Lehmitz, a bar in Hamburg, Germany. Café Lehmitz has since become regarded as a seminal book in the history of European photography

In 1970 Petersen co-founded SAFTRA, the Stockholm group of photographers, with Kenneth Gustavsson. He was director of the Göteborg School of Photography and Film He began to photograph for magazines, and continued his personal photo diary work, which continues to this day. He has photographed for extensive periods of time in prisons, mental asylums, and elderly care homes.

Petersen has published over 20 books on photography. 

Tom Waits is a celebrated American musician, composer, songwriter, and actor.

Roger Anderson was a distinguished journalist and author based in Munich, Germany.