Career
Early on he specialized on documenting the jazz scene, later also the visiting beat and rock musicians who visited Copenhagen during the sixties and the seventies. Persson has supplied photos to Down Beat since 1962, Jazz Special (Denmark), Musica Jazz (Information Technology), Melody Maker (United Kingdom) and Danish newspapers Politiken, Berlingske Tidende and Ekstra Bladet. His photographs were published by a number of magazines, reissue record companies, and documentary films on the history of both jazz and rock music
Persson"s jazz and rock photographs feature American jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to rock icons Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.
His photo archives have been exhibited internationally. More than 15.000 pictures are now in the files of Aalborg University in Denmark.
Musikhuset Århus, Denmark,1990
Govinda Gallery, Washington, United States of America ”Monks World”, 1997
The Jazz Gallery, New York, United States of America ”Images of Miles Davis”, 1998
North Sea Jazz Festival, Den Haag, Holland with Gorm Valentine & Jørgen Bo, 1999
Travelling Exhibition in Spain with Gorm Valentin & Jørgen Bo, 2001
Missouri History Museum, Street.Louis United States of America. 24 fotos af Miles Davis, 2001
Travelling Exhibition in Italy with Gorm Valentin & Nicola Fasano, 2003
Studio Gallery, Los Angeles, United States of America, 2005
The Jazz Bakery, Los Angeles, United States of America, 2005
Copenhagen Central Library, Denmark, 2006
Gladsaxe Main Library, Denmark, 2007
Casa Bossi, Novara Jazzfestival,Italy, 2011.