Imaginära öar
Lotta Törnroth
Blackbook Publications
English, Swedish
Text by Iréne Berggren.
Hardcover
104 pages
175 x 246 mm
2019
ISBN 9789198255577
Imaginära öar is a book that reflects on grief, heartbreak and death. Lotta Törnroth uses mythological tales from Greenland and creates a dream like story. In Greenland everyone knows someone who has lost their life to the sea. The residents of Greenland are still recovering from the disappearance of the ship known as MS Hans Hedtoft when it hit an ice-burg in 1959. Since this tragic event the ship has been renamed to the “Little Titanic” among those affected. Since the event no passenger ship has been allowed to pass the sea to Greenland during the winter months, though the working seamen have no choice but to continue on and brave the sea.
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About the Artist
Lotta Törnroth (b. 1981)is a Swedish photographer based in Stockholm. Törnroth has a Master of Fine Arts in Photography (2014) from Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2012) from the School of Photography, in Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2014 she was awarded the Victor Fellowship by Hasselblad Foundation and spent 6 months at the International Studio & Curatorial Program in New York. After that she has worked in Stockholm but spent time as Artist-in-Residence in Finland, Greece and Greenland.
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About the Publisher
Blackbook Publications is an artist book collective, established in Gothenburg in 2009. They publish books and other printed material from the Scandinavian scene of contemporary photography.
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