JH Engström: “What I see. What I feel. What I remember. What I think. In that order.”
The book “Dimma Brume Mist” was born from over 200 binders filled with thousands of contact sheets and negatives. Over five years, JH Engström revisited this vast archive, searching through forgotten photos, for a thread running through his 35 years of image-making.
Accompanying fragments of text in Swedish, French, and English echo the title in three languages, tracing an inner dialogue that mirrors the contrasts in the images. The works explore the tension between the stillness of life in nature and the energy of the city—the flow of people, the pull of creative motion, and the temptation of letting go amid constant change.
“I had a conviction that it is not within the ‘good image’ that poetry lives, but rather in the movement, energy, searching and doing. A conviction about the power of getting close and when perfection is not reached. The dizziness of when the fumbling continues even though it will never result in the final. The beauty of that fumbling.”
The book “Dimma Brume Mist” is published by VOID and available at the price of 85 Euro.
