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tisdag 17 mars 2026

2025 Gomma Photography Grant


I've been awarded the Second Prize of the 2025 Gomma Photography Grant for my series ”No Man’s Land”. I'm very honored. Thank you!

Jury motivation: ”The series resonated strongly with the jury for its quiet sensitivity and emotional depth. In No Man’s Land, you reflect on the fragile terrain between memory and departure, unfolding around the closing of an old rectory in rural Öland — a place filled with decades of personal history, now emptied and left behind. Through a sequence of subtle, attentive images, the work traces the emotional landscape of a farewell: family gatherings, fleeting gestures, animals, interiors, and the slow rhythms of a countryside where time seems almost suspended. The photographs carry the quiet weight of a life once lived there, revealing moments that feel both ordinary and deeply meaningful.”

The images in the series are from my books ACROSS THE BRIDGE and NO MAN’S LAND.

tisdag 20 augusti 2024

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!


måndag 8 april 2024

söndag 10 mars 2024

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.

 

lördag 9 december 2023

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.