Exhibition, Talk
The photobook and its potential in photographic work
Welcome to a discussion about the photobook’s potential and conditions between Hannah Modigh and Johan Ehrenberg, moderated by Simon Mlangeni-Berg at Kulturhuset in Stockholm.
The Photobook Festival is taking place for the first time at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, coinciding with the exhibition The Lives of Women by Mary Ellen Mark. Mary Ellen Mark has published a large number of books with her photographs. In the photobook, the surface of the image is directly accessible, and the presence of the photograph becomes embodied into a complex and coherent work with weight, materiality, and tangibility. Each book is a place for associations and stories, with cultural meanings and poetic spaces. How can the photobook be used in photographic work? Is there a difference in methods from the past to the present?
Hannah Modigh is a photographer and artist who broke through with the series Hillbilly heroin, honey (Journal 2010), for which she received the Swedish Photobook Prize. For her four subsequent exhibitions and books, she has been awarded, among others, TT’s Grand Photography Prize and the Lars Tunbjörk Prize. Hannah Modigh is represented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, among others.
Johan Ehrenberg is a designer, publicist, debater, lecturer, entrepreneur, and author. He is the founder and owner of ETC companies, which publish the daily newspaper Dagens ETC and the magazine ETC, which started in 1976. In the early 1980s, ETC publishing released several classic photobooks and has continued to do so in recent years through the ETC-owned publishing house Leopard. Johan Ehrenberg will release his next own picture book, Räddningen, in 2023.
Simon Mlangeni-Berg is a photographer, photobook author, and educator. He co-founded Blackbook Publications, which publishes photographic artist books by Scandinavian photographers. In addition to his work as a photographer, he is responsible for the photography programs at Fotoskolan in Gamleby.
The ticket to the conversation is included in the entrance ticket (100 kr) to the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: The Lives of Women, October 29.
Members of Centrum för fotografi receive a discount on admission to the exhibition. Tickets must be booked in order for the discount to be used. Click here to secure your ticket.
The program is a collaboration between CFF, Centrum För Fotografi, Fotoförfattarna/Svenska Fotografers Förbund, and Kulturhuset Stadsteatern.
Read more about the photobook festival here.
Read more about the exhibition Mary Ellen Mark: The Lives of Women.
Photo credit left to right: Håkan Elofsson, Aija Svensson, Margareta Bloom Sandebäck.
