JH Engström - Långt Från Stockholm (signed) subculture

JH Engström - Långt Från Stockholm (signed) subcultureMrel Books 2014 Far from Stockholm finds JH Engstrom on a journey into the surrounding world away from the big city. Shifting between isolated small communities and the untamed wilderness of the Swedish landscape Engstrom weaves the two worlds with portraits of 'dance bands', youths etc and juxtaposing them amongst icy rivers, forests and disappearing roads. By weaving these themes, Engstrom tells at once a poetic solitary and contemplative story

high up in the mountains

Moon and her friends were doing something profoundly divergent: dressing in vintage clothing

I still wish I had taken the shot

in the light of signal events that have shaped the recent past

scenes mutate and people come and go

It is certainly possible to be part of the whole and at the same time separate

acceptance

an immigrant service organisation

This space becomes both a site of meditation and a stage for transformation

28 four-color plates

Between 2004 – 2010

bound by visible and invisible energies…