JH ENGSTROM FROM – BACK HOME
2014-03-25In his collection From Back Home the Swedish photographer JH Engström traced his childhood memories back to the province of Värmland, in the west of Sweden. Together with his friend, the internationally acclaimed photographer Anders Petersen, Engström revisited his native land to pay tribute to the people, light and landscapes. He says: „I can only make photographs of what I feel, of what results from my encounters with people. In this regard, my work is completely subjective. At the same time, I am interested in objectivity, in the fact that since you take photographs, you always deal with reality. And in this respect, I am not interested in subjectivity. It‘s a paradox”.
From Back Home is a large series made during 2001 and 2008. About a hundred prints in the exhibition gives a beautiful mix of fading colors and black and white with portraits and landscapes seen with the special eye that only Engström has. He gives us a deep human insight about the province he calls home. The book From Back Home (Max Ström, 2009) was awarded the book prize at Les Rencontres d’Arles and comprises a multifarious collection of coloured and black and white portraits, landscapes, still-lives, close-ups and aerial shots. The images are united by a sense of spontaneity, an ephemeral tone that lends them an air of tenderness. These are works of intimacy and loss, exploring questions of time, memory and the possibility of return.
Exhibition runs from March 29th to May 10th, 2014
Swedish Photography
Karl-Marx-Allee 62
10243
Berlin
