FOTOGRAFISKA TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS

From the series A Child Is Born © Lennart Nilsson
FOTOGRAFISKA
T R AV E L L I N G
EXHIBITIONS
FOTOGRAFISKA
T R AV E L L I N G
EXHIBITIONS
Fotografiska’s Travelling Exhibitions feature the work of internationally acclaimed
photographers. The exhibitions are available for loan world wide, for a period up to
three months.
AVAILABLE TRAVELLING EXHIBITIONS
Nick Brandt On This Earth, A Shadow Falls
Lennart Nilsson A Child Is Born
Anders Petersen From Back Home
Martin Bogren Lowlands
Vee Speers The Birthday Party
Joakim Brolin and Nils Olof Hedenskog Creeping in Circles
Jacob Felländer I Want To Live Close To You
Pieter Ten Hoopen Stockholm
Christer Strömholm CHR.
Johan Willner Boy Stories
August Strindberg Bilden av Strindberg
ABOUT US
At Fotografiska, we strive to be a vital centre for contemporary photography. Our
ambition is to exhibit world-renown photographers, many of who have never shown
in Sweden. Located in the heart of Stockholm, the museum has an exhibition space
of 2 500 square meters. Since the grand opening in May 2010, Fotografiska has
presented exhibitions with Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Edward
Burtynsky, Helen Levitt, Anton Corbijn, Sarah Moon, Sandy Skoglund, Eleanor
Coppola, Liu Bolin, Albert Watson, among others. Fotografiska is also the founder of
Stockholm Photography Week, a week-long celebration for photography.
GET IN TOUCH
For more information, bookings, suggestions or collaboration ideas, please contact
Exhibition Coordinator Johan Vikner
[email protected]
Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
Elephants Walking Through Grass, Amboseli, 2008 © Nick Brandt
Nick
Brandt
On This Earth, A Shadow Falls
Line of Rangers with Tusks of Killed Elephants, 2011 © Nick Brandt
Nick
Brandt
On This Earth, A Shadow Falls
Nick Brandt’s photograph of an elephant drinking captures, in all its detail, the quiet reserve of this creature, its weathered skin and ivory tusks dusty and worn. Each individual wrinkle, each contour, its gentle gaze, is imbedded into the
paper, the result of patience and tripping the shutter at just the right moment. Through his craft Brandt grants us an
intimate glance into the private world of these gentle beasts.
However Brandt is not a wildlife photographer. On the contrary, he is a portraitist. His empathetic portraits of animals
challenge the stereotypical approaches to their depiction. According to Brandt, “Ultimately, I am not interested in creating
work that is documentary or filled with action and drama, which has been the norm in the field of photography of animals
in the wild.” Furthermore Brandt does not use telephoto lenses; instead he is determined to be close to his subjects.
”I believe that being close to the animals makes a huge difference in the photographer’s ability to reveal its personality.
You wouldn’t take a portrait of a human being from a hundred feet away and expect to capture their soul; you’d move
in close,” muses Brandt. The resulting fine art prints are far removed from the glossy pages of National Geographic.
Global warming, increased human encroachment, poaching, deforestation, and political instability threaten the future of
the natural habitat of Africa’s animal population. For Brandt, these animals are far more than the subjects of his camera.
They are the last of their kind.
Elephant Drinking, Amboseli, 2007 © Nick Brandt
Lion Before Storm II, Sitting Profile, Maasai Mara, 2006 © Nick Brandt
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Total number of photographs: 65
Archival pigment ink prints, wooden frames, plexi glass
Video interview with Nick Brandt, 6:23 min, recorded in October 2011
Exhibition fee: €8000
Available from: January 2012
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected] Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
LENNART NILSSON
A CHILD IS BORN
20 Weeks, The Fetus’ Instinct To Suck is Triggered by the Thumb © Lennart Nilsson
LENNART NILSSON
A CHILD IS BORN
Of all of Lennart Nilsson’s photographic investigations, it is for his breakthrough imagery of the development of human
life that he is most recognized. When LIFE magazine first published the images in 1965, the entire run of 8 million issues
sold out in just a matter of days. The world was taken aback by the unveiling of life before birth. Since their
publication over four decades ago, each new generation to encounter Nilsson’s photographs is continually astounded
by their power. His visual investigation of the human reproductive process has revealed to us much more than scientific
data. Nilsson has touched upon the sublime.
In the same year that his photographs premiered in LIFE magazine Nilsson’s book, A Child is Born was published and,
over time, distributed in more than 20 countries. The book has been a success among expectant mothers and
photography connoisseurs alike. In 2009, Nilsson published the 5th edition of A Child is Born. The new edition took into
consideration the visual culture of our time. Now Nilsson’s images direct the scientific text instead of illustrating it. With
the current exhibition, we seek to free the images further from the narrative of the book. Released from the narrative, the
photographs may be viewed as individual images or in groups, in order to allow for new comparisons and
associations. Additionally, the larger format of Nilsson’s prints reflects the power of their content. They disclose our
fragility, our mortality, and our vigor. We will never fully grasp what sparks the creation of life; however, Nilsson’s photographs have brought us a bit closer to understanding the mystery.
Portrait Photographed at 20 Weeks, Approximately 20 cm © Lennart Nilsson
16 Weeks, The Fetus’ Movements Are Stronger © Lennart Nilsson
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 30
C-Print mounted on glass / Silver gelatine print mounted on glass
Size: From 102 x 120 cm up to 200 x 120 cm
Exhibition fee: €8000
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected] Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
MARTIN BOGREN
This is where I grew up. When I was a child I
longed to move away. To something that was
bigger, to something more. The village was
limiting and the world beyond was an adventure
waiting to happen. I have returned here now.
With my camera as an excuse to search for
memories. To understand the longing I felt
while growing up.
-Martin Bogren
In Martin Bogren’s Lowlands we are presented with a story narrated by images that resides between the
documentary, the dreamy, and the personal. For several years, Bogren returned to his childhood village
in Skåne. We are presented with a personal depiction of his memories and of the people still living in the
village. Bogren’s black-and-white photographs create a feeling of stepping into another world where time
stands still.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 39
Exhibition fee: €3000
Available from: January 2012
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected] Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
ANDERS PETERSEN
Anders Petersen (b. 1944) is one of Sweden’s most internationally recognized photographers. He is renowned for his
stream of consciousness approach and his high contrast black and white imagery. His series From Back Home includes
over 100 photographs of Värmland, Sweden, the majority of which were taken in 2007 and 2008.
This seemingly random collection of photographs is bound by one common denominator; they are images about seeking
contact. The immediacy of a photograph, paired with Petersen’s chance encounters with his subjects, brings to mind
the transience of our existence, and the understanding that home is subjective and indefinable, yet it is home that is at
the core of our being. For Petersen the photographs taken in Värmland are much more than documentation, collectively
they compose his self-­portrait.
The entire series of photographs in From Back Home was donated to Fotografiska by Petersen in 2010.
© Anders Petersen
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 129
For more information and booking, please contact
Exhibition fee: €6000
Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
Frame size: 64 x 94 cm
Johan Vikner, [email protected]
VEE SPEERS
Untitled #15 © Vee Speers
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
Untitled #30, #16, #4, 35 © Vee Speers
VEE SPEERS
Painterly portraits with dramatic elements and unique colour compositions are characteristic of Vee Speers’ work. In
The Birthday Party, we encounter her theatrical portraits of costumed children on their way to an imaginary celebration.
Against a timeless background, Speers’ portraits of children’s dress-up are as whimsical as they are threatening.
According to Speers, childhood games reflect roles in the adult world, such as father, mother, nurse or soldier.
Does the children’s role-play in Speers’ photographs imply unknown futures? Is Speers’ work a comment on gender
roles, as suggested to us in our tender youth? Or does she invite the spectator to supplement each narrative with his or
her own experiences and associations? In The Birthday Party Speers presents us with more questions than answers.
Her engaging imagery brings to mind our own childhood adventures. The Birthday Party is also a reminder of our
collective need to escape into our own imaginations.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 26
Exhibition fee: €3000
Ilfochrome mounted on Dibond
Size: 59 x 71 cm to 110,8 x 135 cm
CREEPING IN CIRCLES
JOAKIM BROLIN & NILS OLOF HEDENSKOG
Creeping in Circles constitutes a series of images that could be described as performative pieces. Each
photograph is the result of a painstaking process. A medium format camera is suspended from a crane. The
camera is aimed directly at the ground below, where circular lines are drawn. The lines provide the framework for
the performance or ”creeping”. Following the lines, a series of people crawl, with lamps attached their helmets,
creating circles of light during a 20 minute exposure.
One could say that artists Brolin and Hedenskog represent traditions that have come “full circle” meeting at a point
of inexplicable tension, compelling the two artists to reduce the works to their simplest expression. An interest that
was already expressed by Brolin as early as 1996 when he created work for his exhibition entitled Leaves. Brolin
eliminated the camera, film, and went directly to placing transparent materials from nature directly into an enlarger.
Hedenskog’s simplified circle imagery emerged from his painting. Together Brolin and Hedenskog have fused their
visual languages to the emulsion of the film. On one level they are reduced, to the essential elements of a
photograph, light, movement, and time. On the other hand the resulting photographic images evoke
metaphysical pondering. Creeping in Circles is as much a part of a larger response to the digital revolution as it is
a poetic gesture.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 18
Sizes: 150 x 150 cm to 180 x 180 cm
C-prints mounted on glass
One photographic installation 33 x 975 cm
Exhibition fee: €3500
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected]
Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
JACOB FELLÄNDER
I WANT TO LIVE CLOSE TO YOU
I made a journey around the world, visiting its most densely populated cities. An analog experiment with the
intent to capture the entire world in one image. The whole world on a single, multi-exposed negative. As places
and people merged before me, I grew increasingly fascinated at how close together we all live. For the first time
in the history of mankind, more of us live in cities than in the country, and we have spent fortunes building the
most amazingly infra-structured conurbations.
These creations continue to fascinate me. Our habitat in these places may seem grotesque but we actually get
along surprisingly well in our cities. We may think that we are different, we may think we like or dislike each
other. But still, we choose to live extremely close to one another: next to, underneath, on top of.
- Jacob Felländer
Starting out from Stockholm, Jacob Felländer has conducted a photographic experiment. Over twelve days,
he visited in turn New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Bombay, Dubai and Paris with the intent of capturing
the world in one single negative. Through a special technique with a modified analogue camera he was able
to wind forward and expose the film one centimetre at the time. The result is a panorama of cities flowing into
each other in chronological order, with details sticking out of the visual noise with a piercing intensity.
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected]
Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508
Pieter Ten Hoopen
Stockholm
A feeling of isolation, as an emotional state, can be present even among friends and loved ones. Pieter Ten
Hoopen’s Stockholm is an investigation and a narrative about loneliness within the urban environment. The
series was photographed from 2008–2010, and is divided into public and private spaces. We encounter figures
in unidentifiable rooms, as well as on buses and in the underground. Ten Hoopen unreservedly acknowledges
that the series is subjective, and in many ways, autobiographical, reflecting his own experiences as a foreigner
trying to connect in an unknown city. This personal investigation began when Ten Hoopen was restricted to
Stockholm due to an injury, compelling him to reflect upon his life experiences and his move to the capital.
True to his photojournalistic background, ten Hoopen does not direct his photographs. His working method is
intuitive. A chance encounter may lead to interactions with people and places that spark an entire body of work.
As a scavenger of images, Ten Hoopen seeks refuge in each environment, and attempts to make himself one
of its inhabitants. Additionally his portraits are not arranged. He studies the natural body language of his subject, and may, upon observing an interesting gesture, request that the person hold a position. It is in this way
that Ten Hoopen manages to effectively capture the expressions and emotion that are the hallmark of his work.
EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Number of photographs: 22
Frame size: 180 x 110 cm
For more information and booking, please contact Johan Vikner
[email protected]
Phone: 0046 8 50 900 508