Ende Und Anfang – Early Trips
JH Engström
André Frere Editions
English, Swedish
Hardcover
128 pages
200 x 250 mm
2013
ISBN 9791092265088
In the late 1990s, Swedish photographer JH Engström travelled across Europe and the United States with his camera in hand. The series of colour and black-and-white images in this book shows but fragments of what was apparently an impressionable time for him: snippets of everyday life, urban scenes and portraits, and brief glimpses into the lives of the various people he encountered along the way. Highway rest stops, diners, construction cranes, pool halls, railways, domestic scenes and abandoned buildings are just some of the many settings in which the human aspect is always sought out and honestly perceived through Engström’s inquisitive lens.
About the Artist
JH Engström was born in Karlstad in 1969. He is a Swedish photographer and video artist, living and working between Paris and Smedsby (Värmland, Sweden). Engström first grew up in the remote province of Värmland in central Sweden until the family moved to Paris when he was 10 years old. An overwhelming change that prompted him early on to look at his own existence, forging a vision rooted in these contrasting living environments opposing the slow-time energy of the Swedish countryside to the exaltation of Parisian life. In 1993, he settled in Stockholm where he shared the lab with Anders Petersen, a leading figure with a determinant influence in the expressive dimension of his work. He applied these precepts at the Gothenburg University school of photography until 1997 before moving to New York between 1998 and 2000 where he spent time at Robert Frank’s studio.
jhengstrom.org
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About the Publisher
André Frere Editions is a French publishing house, founded in 2013.
andrefrereditions.com
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