Photobooks published by Journal

Journal: Swedish photobooks


Journal is a swedish photobook publishing house. It was founded by Gösta Flemming in 1991.


Swedish artists and photographers published by Journal


The list of authors published by Journal is long, the catalog of L'Ascenseur Végétal offers among others Martin Bogren, JH Engström, Marie Sjøvold, Hendrik Zeitler, Nina Strand, Helge Skodvin, Hannah Modigh, Joakim Kocjancic, Sara Skorgan Teigen, Kent Klich, Margot Wallard … and many more!

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  • Presentation by Journal: " « For the past 15 years I’ve photographed my life, my friends and the surroundings I move in. It’s about the longing for closeness, fellowship and love. A search for identity and sexuality and living out at night. A collection of images for not to forget and to keep us together. » So photographer Märta Thisner summarises her...

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  • Presentation by Journal: "Go partying with Ingvar Kenne that has visited Bachelor & Spinster Balls across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Northern Territory in Australia! In a letter to author Tim Winton, Ingvar Kenne writes: « The B&S Balls are uniquely Australian, but to me, at the bottom of it lies this universal thing. Youth taking...

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  • .Back in stock!. Presentation by Journal: " « In 2004, I made the book Trying to Dance, designed by Patric Leo and published by Journal. Since then, it has lived a life of its own, just as books should do. For me, Trying to Dance is more than a book – the photographs on which it was based constitute an image universe of its own. Photography then had a...

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  • Presentation on the artist's website : "The identity of Nordic women is in a state of constant flux, but I don’t see the role of being a mother changing at the same speed or in the same direction. This creates a conflict and an ambivalence for many women. This essay is a photographic voyage through my own life, as I am trying to understand what happens to...

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  • Presentation on the artist's website : " For more than a decade photographer Hendrik Zeitler has photographed his living environment in Hammarkullen, a suburb of Göteborg in Sweden. Göran Greider, journalist, author and poet, writes in the book: « Hammarkullen has a kind of notoriety in Sweden. It is one of those suburban names that frame the one-sided...

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  • Quick view Strand, Nina
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    Presentation on the artist's website : "Dr. Strand is the title of an exhibition and a book about the late doctor, feminist and activist Kitty Strand. The personal picture-memoir is told by her daughter, Nina Strand. Kitty and Nina were planning a journey across the U.S. that they never had time to take before Kitty passed away in 2001. In 2012 Nina took...

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  • Quick view Skodvin, Helge
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    .LAST COPY, with the ORANGE cover.Presentation on Helge Skodvin's website : "More than any other car, the Volvo 240 became a symbol of Scandinavian and Nordic values. The safe, the sound, the commonplace. Square and homely, yet solid and reliable. Function over form. No frills. Taking you from A to Z. A car. An ambassador for the Scandinavian social...

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  • .Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "This book is about a special mood, springing from a certain time in life, the period between being a child and an adult. It’s a time of longing for independence. A time full of dreams, expectations, and a feeling that life is great, a feeling that one’s entire life can change on an evening. Or even by a glance. It is...

  • Quick view Collectif
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    Catalogue for the second edition of the "EPEA - European Photo Exhibition Award" with the subject "The New Social".Presentation by EPEA : "The European Photo Exhibition Award – epea for short – aims to create a free space where socially relevant topics concerning Europe are developed and discussed by talented photographers who live and work in Europe and...

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  • .Back in stock!. Project presentation from the artist's website: "I started working on my Paradise essay in 2006, when I moved back to Stockholm after living in different European cities. Though born and raised in Milan, as a half-Swede I have always felt connected to this city. The approach of my photography is direct, intuitive and fast. I'm trying to...

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  • Quick view Wang, Knut Egil
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    Southbound is a book that is book documentary and funny, even sarcastic, and introduces us to a Norwegian tradition during the very long "polar winters" : the migration of the populations from the great north to the south, to a place referred to as "Syden"... A migration of a few days, a few weeks, or the whole summer, to the south of the country, or to...

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  • .Sold out.Presentation of the book by the artist: "My sketchbook is a physical form of my thoughts, my aquifer of ideas and meditations of the world as I experience and learn from it. It is where my psychological truth takes form and manifests. To study patterns in nature and draw them small and concentrated gives me time to meditate on the forms, shapes...

  • .Back in stock.From the back cover: "While growing into one of the biggest European centers of coal and steel, Charleroi in Belgium was populated by migrant workers coming from many countries. Today overgrown slag heaps and closed down steelworks remind of the city's heyday. Jens Olof Lasthein walks the streets to discover the power and spirit of...

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  • Quick view Grant, Ken
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    No Pain Whatsoever is a series made on a rather long period (1985 - 2009) during which Ken Grant took pictures of his contemporaries in his hometown of Liverpool. Lively Black & White portraits, often touching, of people leading a difficult life in neighbourhoods that look much like others often seen in the works of what is sometimes called the...

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  • .Back in stock.A quite crazy book about "Power Meet" in Västerås, Sweden, one of the largest car gathering in the world, where car fans spend a whole weekend "full throttle"!Cars, races, engines, shiny chromes, but also tattoos, disguises, alcohol, sex and camping... A weekend where apparently a lot of people unhinge and let go!180 pages - Softcover...

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  • Artist's presentation : "I grew up in a world surrounded by women. This work is about the relationship between my mother and me. I photograph the atmosphere between us. What happens between us and what doesn't happen. The way I look at her and the way I sometimes see myself in her. How we as children are shaped by the way our parents see the world. How...

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  • With his book A Black Matter, Grégoire Éloy achieves a true tour de force, an exercise in style, by photographing black, what the astrophysicists call "black matter"...Commissioned by a French local scientific institution, the artist worked in several places around France dedicated to research in the field of astrophysics where he met with scientists,...

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  • Quick view Éloy, Grégoire
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    With his book A Black Matter, Grégoire Éloy achieves a true tour de force, an exercise in style, by photographing black, what the astrophysicists call "black matter"...Commissioned by a French local scientific institution, the artist worked in several places around France dedicated to research in the field of astrophysics where he met with scientists,...

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  • From the back cover: "Through a series of images produced over more than a decade, photographer Kent Klich explores the conditions of those living in Gaza, a society under constant siege. In the foreword, Judith Butler, philosopher and engaged in the conflict between Palestine and Israel, writes: «As onlookers, we are face to face with fragments of lost...

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  • Quick view Wallard, Margot
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    .Back in stock!. Artist's presentation: "I started taking pictures of my brother Guillaume and his partner Sonia in 2008; both living behind closed doors with the alcohol addiction. In this closed doors where I found my place and felt good, I photographed their relationship, the intimate moments, happy or unhappy, that I share with them. Unfortunately...

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  • .Back in stock!.Margot Wallard's presentation: "I started taking pictures of my brother Guillaume and his partner Sonia in 2008; both living behind closed doors with the alcohol addiction. In this closed doors where I found my place and felt good, I photographed their relationship, the intimate moments, happy or unhappy, that I share with them....

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  • Quick view Klich, Kent
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    Gaza Photo Album is a quite difficult book, as it displays - in a very simple way - house interiors that have been bombed in 2009 within the Gaza Strip.The book is a testimony of the reality of the life conditions within this community. As a caption for each image: the name of the head of the household, the number of people occupying the house, the...

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  • Quick view Bogren, Martin
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    Beautiful portraits of people from India's Rajasthan who discover the ocean for the first time.The Black & White, grainy, and highly contrasted style of Martin Bogren suits perfectly the atmosphere of these moments, the smiles, the bodies, the waves, the water.36 pages - Hardcover, no DJ Journal, 2008 New - Mint condition

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  • La Résidence is a book created after JH Engström had been in residence in Brussels; where he photographed the city, the street life, the cafés, the people. By putting these images in perspective through texts from his own journal, the artist tells the story of why this residence experience was a failure. This is very well explained by Engström himself in...

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