| art.description.project | I participated with series from my project 424/Hammarkullen, which was published as a book in late 2014, as well as a series from my Surtesjön-images
From the museum website:
With four photographic swoops in the world - far away and close to home – people's different living conditions and milieux are explored, using nature as a reference point.
In humble dialogue with the forests of Norrland, in the pure unproductive land of the Million Homes Programme suburbs, among a threatened nomadic people in a desert that has been affected by climate change, and among exploited coal workers in India. The interplay with nature plays an essential role for the way our lives are formed and our identity - no matter where we live in the world.
Undulating landscape, lush plants and close-ups of animals can all be associated with traditional nature photography. This is not exactly the case with this exhibition.
Hendrik Zeitler • 424 – Hammarkullen, Angered
Hammarkullen is one of those suburb names that induce a one-sided picture of what a "Million Homes Programme" suburb is. But when the forest, paths, trees and magpie nests are included, other peep-holes open up. I see a large, benevolent, green hand cradling little Hammarkullen like a child.
Other exhibitors:
Sebastian Sardi • Coal – Dhanbad, India
Johanna Henriksson • Changing Desert/Lost land – Mali
Staffan Nygren • Pinnmannen (the Stick Man), Fredrikafors, Sweden
conference at the end of the exhibition, 19–20 October:
MÄNNISKA OCH MILJÖ/HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENT
– LANDSKAP, LIVSFORMER OCH IDENTITET I SAMTIDA DOKUMENTÄRFOTOGRAFI/LANDSCAPE, LIFE FORMS AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
keynote speakers:
Linda Maria Thompson
Going back home – identity, rephotography and post memory
Christer Nordlund, professor in History of ideas at Umeå university
Antropocene through the lens, about an environmental history of documentary photography
Staffan Nygren – Pinnmannen (the Stick Man) from Fredrikafors
Presentation of Sune Jonssons Days by the Sea, Alexandra Ellis
Johanna Henriksson
Changing desert/Lost land, Mali
Oskar Östergren, about Sápmi film production
Sebastian Sardi
Coal – Dhanbad, Indien | sv |
