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Deutsche Börse Photography PrizeNow in its ninth year, London's Photographers' Gallery continues to bring the best new and international photographic talent to our attention via the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.
Swedish photographer JH Engström presents a combination of intimate portraits and lonely, uninhabited scenes from his book, Trying To Dance.
Images of nude friends staring into the camera contrast varying scenes which seem tinged with a forlorn air. Empty but slept-in beds, an abandoned table for two.
The disconnection between those images with people and those without, deals with, as Engström puts it, "the possibility and impossibility of capturing people's presence".
He notes that the meaning and aesthetics of his images "cannot be divided" as "they make the photograph together."
Although the photographs are autobiographical and timeless Engström takes time editing and selecting. "I think time is a very important tool in my work process. I 'get to know' my photographs. The process is also very intuitive."
The end results are stylistically varied and messy, like visual poetry. His people are ghostly and faded, the empty rooms colour saturated and the repeated image of a black-and-white forest conjures a lingering sense of isolation.
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