Book   

2020

This is book follows my journey along the Lule River, from the mountains to sea, made during 2018. With a pink hard cover, inspired by the bright color of the flower fireweed, the journey is framed within its brutal landscape of industries, dry furrows, electricity lines, old forrests and still water. It takes us 450 km straight through the county Norrbotten.

Within the book, landscapes appear to be cut up into two pieces. I have been working with my original 6x6 cm square negatives, cutting them up in the digital photographic manipulation tool and turning them from one into two photographs. By doing this, I am on one hand telling that this is a re-reading of a place. The cut up mediates an image beyond what we are looking at. In this remake and change, I want to question how mythologies and the past have been shaped and by whom. This might be a way to re-construct our idea of what we are looking at. Both of photography as a medium but also the tradition of landscape-photography.

The book also contains a map, a risoprint, of the different maps of the river.  I work with three different languages in the book: Lulesami, Swedish and English. Translated by Anders Rimpi and Emma Johnsson.