Career
He is known for his intimate black and white street photography portrait series. Strömholm was a student of art under Waldemar Winkler and Dick Beer. He co-founded Fotoskolan academy in Stockholm in 1962 and was its director
He is noted for his depictions of transsexuals in the Place Blanche area of 1950s" Paris, published as Les amies de Place Blanche.
The critic Sean O"Hagan, writing in The Guardian, said he "is known as the father of Swedish photography both for his abiding influence and for his role as a teacher."
The award citation described him as "one of Scandinavia"s leading photographers, and the first post-war photographer to gain international renown". Les Amies de Place Blanche, International Center for Photography, New York, 2012.