No Man's Land - 1st place in Budapest

My photobook NO MAN'S LAND won 1st place in the photobook category and Gold in the documentary category for No Man's Land at Budapest Foto Awards 2024. Thank you!

Finissage

 

FINISSAGE (publisher Journal), a limited leporello summing up my exhibition “A Familiar Place” at Stadsmuseet (Stockholm City Museum), on show this autumn. Release and signing of the catalogue at Stadsmuseet, Sat 16th Nov at 15 PM to 17 PM. Welcome!

A Familiar Place - solo exhibition at Stadsmuseet

 

It's up! My solo exhibition A Familiar Place is on display at Stadsmuseet, Stockholm. Open from 11/9 to 17/1. It's about everyday life in Stockholm. Street photos, portraits and polaroids. Welcome!

 

 

 

 

News

 

PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris. "No Man's Land" is rewarded with Gold in Book/Documentary category in the PX3 Pris de la Photographie Paris photo competition. Thank you!

 

 

 

 

And also, my ongoing project, The Social Club, about Naples is one of the finalists at the Gomma Black and White Awards. Thanks!

Stockholmsvy

A summer morning earlier this week at the island Djurgården in Stockholm. Stockholmsvy means a view of Stockholm.

EU elections 2024

 

Tomorrow it's the EU elections. Don't forget to vote.

Review in the photo magazine Fotografi

I got a nice review in the latest issue of the Norwegian photo magazine Fotografi. Thank you!
 

Stockholm

 

No Man's Land

Photo from my photobook No Man's Land. All photos in the book are on display on my website. Link in bio.

 

What a glorious piece of machinery!

 

 

 

 

 

I took my new Fujifilm X100VI for a test drive yesterday. What a glorious piece of machinery!

 

Hanna

 

My daughter Hanna.

Old Town, Stockholm

Gamla stan, Stockholm.

NO MAN'S LAND OUT NOW

 

 

 

 

 

PRESSRELEASE

In his new book, Swedish photographer Simon Johansson returns to the same territory on the Swedish island of Öland that formed the basis of his debut book, Across the Bridge (2016). Now as then, it's not just a tale of everyday observations – it’s time to tie up loose ends and close the book.  

No Man’s Land is about a close circle of people in a small village on the Swedish island of Öland. Here, farmers live side by side with an artist commune. Their lives and work are intertwined. The farmers become involved in art projects and the artists help with the farming. After living there for many years, Simon Johansson knows the villagers well. He has seen the dynamics close-up.

“By portraying everyday life in the village, I describe the common ambition to mean something to others; to be part of a context,” Simon Johansson says. “The starting point of the project is my own experience of when that context was taken away from me. The end of a relationship turned into an emotional trauma. It’s about how my life in the village is falling apart, and how I then leave a much-loved place.”

The photographer is currently working on the No Man's Land soundtrack, which will be released on all digital platforms and on vinyl in 2024.

75 b/w images • Editing and design: Gösta Flemming, Simon Johansson • Text: Simon Johansson • Translation to English: Maria Morris • Hard cover • 220 x 250 mm • 148 pages • Swedish/English • Handwritten text: Maria Jonsson • Document and typography: Johan Lindberg • Prepress and printing: Narayana Press • ISBN 978-91-87939-74-7 • 2023

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Available from Journal or contact me for a signed copy.

Paris

 

I took some pictures in Paris a couple of weeks ago.