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!

Review in the photo magazine Fotografi

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

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.

 

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.

MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS 2022

 

MIFA 2022. Awarded 3rd place in the Book/Documentary category with "Across the Bridge". Thank you!

Real People

So happy and honoured to have my photos included in this book!

Title: Real People

Editor: Bruce Gilden

2021 PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS

I just found out (a little bit late), and I’m very honored, that my book “Across the Bridge” won the 2nd place in the book category (and was awarded Gold in the Book/Documentary category) in the 2021 PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris.

 

Bruce Gilden Special Prize

So honoured and happy to have my project "The World Shadow" selected by Bruce Gilden to be published in a photographic volume where the Maestro himself is the editor. The book "Real People" will be released in October.

Review in L'Intervalle

"The Young Ones" got a very nice review in L'Intervalle. Merci!

(Google Translate)
"The children we see here have a total, irreducible, frank presence. They are our lost horizon, the one we try to find through art, drunkenness, ecstasies, artificial or not. (…) The looks Johansson catches are crystal clear in depth: no cheating, no time for it."
 

Silver Award in PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris

PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris. I'm so honoured that "The Young Ones" won the Silver Award in the category Book/Documentary.

Posters for sale

The webshop Kolla is now launching a series of photos from my book about Stockholm, "A Familiar Place" (Journal, 2018), as open edition art posters. The posters (size 50x70 cm) are printed on high quality Hahnemule fine art paper. 48 euro plus shipping. Check them out at www.kollashop.com.

Group exhibition in Arles

I’m really happy that this photo from “The Young Ones” is chosen to be in the group exhibition OpenWalls Arles at Galerie Huit Arles this summer. 26th June to the 5th September.

"From 1854 Media & British Journal of Photography in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, OpenWalls Arles is an international photography award designed to elevate the careers of emerging and established photographers by exhibiting their work in the prestigious and historic location of Arles"

Slideshow "The Young Ones"

Slideshow of my photobook "The Young Ones" (Journal, 2019).
Pictures taken 2002-19 in Stockholm, Öland, Kivik, Östersund (SE), Bucharest (RO), Rome (IT) and Costa Rica.

PHOTOS & TEXT
Simon Johansson

MUSIC
Simon Johansson
Christofer Stannow

www.simonjohansson.se
www.journal-photobooks.com

MY FATHER WAKES ME AT three o’clock in the morning as agreed. I’m not sure what’s most exciting, to be up watching TV in the middle of the night, or that man is landing on the moon. No matter which, the grainy black-and-white television image of Neil Armstrong in a space suit floating down the ladder has stuck on my retina. While man takes the giant leap, 380 439 kilometres from our living room, I take a small step to expand my very own universe.

Early every morning, at dawn, I steal the brand new bicycle belonging to the boy next door. Despite being told off several times, I continue to rise before everyone else, lug the bicycle down the stairs and onto the pavement. The bike is too big and wobbly but I manage a few metres at the time. I sway into flower borders, fall on top of rose bushes, scratch myself bloody, crash into the tarmac and graze myself, again and again. But I don’t give up. With the stubbornness of a five-year-old, I lift up the bike which isn’t mine and try again. The red lacquer is scratched and has lost some of its shine. I’m bleeding and bruised. But it doesn’t matter. I’m five years old, man walks on the moon, and I’m determined to learn to ride a bike.

It's here!

It has arrived! I'm very excited. Release next week at Paris Photo. I'll be signing the book at the Journal booth at Polycopies next friday 8/11 13:30. If in Paris, don't be a stranger!

Flyers

Got the flyers/postcard for the bookrelease today. This is the front and back. Release at Paris Photo/Polycopies 191106.